Talk:Amelia Earhart

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The video captioned "Newsreel of Earhart flying the Atlantic Ocean in 1932" is actually about her trip from Hawaii to California. Also, the video itself seems to partially looped. 35.137.220.224 (talk) 04:47, 5 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Someone already fixed the caption. It seems the confusion arose because the video file itself was misnamed in Commons. I've fixed the issue, so hopefully that prevents further confusion. - ZLEA _T\^C 15:01, 5 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

(originally left at Desertarun's talk page):

Hi all, I've now finished my copy-edit. I've marked passages in various sections with [citation needed] where I thought a citation was required. I've also marked one subsection, "World flight in 1937" --> "Flight between Lae and Howland Island" with {{Refimprove}} because some important text, mostly about RDF and radio communications, there is uncited. I also substantially rearranged the sections "Legacy" and "In Popular Culture", and retitled a couple of earlier subsections.

I think some other paragraphs could be moved into a "Personal life" section, particularly that about Earhart's marriage and move to California, to avoid mixing her flying career with her personal life. I also considered merging the transatlantic flight and the round-the-world flight into the section "Aviation career and marriage" but there's so much material there I didn't want to swamp it. And I wasn't sure about listifying the new subsection "Legacy" --> "Tributes and memorials" because some of the text there is extensive. Maybe you or another editor could find a better way of divide up and present the text for our readers.

Oh, and I swapped the footnotes system from {{refn}}to{{efn}} because the latter works with all formats of citations; I found problems when trying to move a lengthy quotation cited with a bare ref out of "References" into "Notes". The only difference if that the footnotes are now listed by letter not number. Moving to a single citation style would be ideal and make life easier for future editors but that's a lot of work so it's not a request, just a suggestion for later on. Anyway, it's been an honor to work on this article. Cheers and good luck with it, Baffle☿gab 06:54, 17 June 2024 (UTC).Reply

I will re-organise the article to separate personal life from aviation career - as is common practise in most other biography articles. Desertarun (talk) 13:54, 17 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

It won't be possible for me to do this after all. It seems she didn't really have any personal life away from aviation, her husband was her publicist and fully involved in her aviation. And I can't see any content which is distinctly non-aviation or formerly private and now public. Desertarun (talk) 21:56, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Under Aviation Career and Marriage and Financial Crisis Amelai needs to be changed to Amelia. 2603:80A0:800:BD8:3ADA:8316:75A5:3D5A (talk) 04:34, 19 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

  Done NotAGenious (talk) 04:49, 19 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Right after the summary data, the sentence starts with the mistyped name "Earnart" 173.72.38.241 (talk) 16:52, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

  Done, thanks. - ZLEA _T\^C 17:33, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

In the Works Cited, the "Safford, Laurance F." reference is doubled up, with slight differences 118.209.216.216 (talk) 06:59, 29 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello,

I saw there was a citation needed for the sentence under education, "In 1909, when the family was reunited in Des Moines, the Earhart children were enrolled in public school for the first time and Amelia, 12, entered seventh grade."

I believe I found a good source that could be placed. I will link the pdf and citation below.

Legislative Services Agency. 2019. “Pieces of Iowa's Past.” Pieces of Iowa's Past. https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/TB/1037670.pdf. Gwynth Rae (talk) 19:24, 14 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

I tried to make an Edit Request and it just vanished. So will this simple entry work? 14.201.77.123 (talk) 13:27, 16 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Just had more trouble 14.201.77.123 (talk) 13:37, 16 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

WHY ON EARTH when I make junk comments they come through, but when I try to do something useful (4 tries) they just vanish????? 14.201.77.123 (talk) 13:40, 16 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

I wonder if it dislikes URLs. So I have gelded the URL (most of the commas should be slashes) and here goes:

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Please update the reference which is currently number 158: "Brandenberg, Bob. Probability of Betty Hearing Amelia on a Harmonic"The main link is broken and the archived link only links to a PDF which is only an included table in the (old) main report. There is an updated version of the main report which now is『Harmony and Power: Could Betty Have Heard Amelia Earhart on a Harmonic?』at https,,,tighar.org,Projects,Earhart,Archives,Research,ResearchPapers,Brandenburg,HarmonyandPower.htm

Please substitute this in the reference. Thanks. 14.201.77.123 (talk) 13:49, 16 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Another test: https,,,tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/ResearchPapers/Brandenburg/HarmonyandPower.htm 14.201.77.123 (talk) 23:59, 17 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Please fix the reference as described in the end part of the previous section "Only testing". Thanks. 14.201.77.123 (talk) 13:55, 16 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Are you sure the link you provided is in fact an updated version of the current source? From what I can see, the "revised" date of your link predated the current source by at least several months (if the year in the reference is to be believed]. - ZLEA _T\^C 15:10, 16 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

@ZLEA The current link, to "BettyProb182531a.pdf" is to the same PDF table which is linked in the old report, which is still accessible at

https,,,tighar.org,Projects,Earhart,Archives,Research,Bulletins,30_BettyHarmonic,30_Bettyharmonic.html  (URL to be repaired as before.)

It is linked to the words "Probability Tables" in the box just above the Introduction of that old report, which is dated 2001, and therefore the PDF should be also. The PDF link should be replaced by the report it is in, and the old report should be replaced by the new report, at https,,,tighar.org,Projects,Earhart,Archives,Research,ResearchPapers,Brandenburg,HarmonyandPower.htm

Thanks, 14.201.77.123 (talk) 03:12, 17 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Actually, I have been mislead by the layout of the old report. The PDF is still current, as a link in the NEW report. It is item 18 in the Notes at the end of the new report. It is still the case that the PDF link should be replaced by the link to the (new) report it is in. 14.201.77.123 (talk) 03:44, 17 July 2024 (UTC)Reply