Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Joel S. Levine/archive1

Spot checks

 * " Inspired, he attempted to observe the planets himself with a small telescope from his home in New York City, but was unsuccessful due to light pollution" - I'm not sure that "was unsuccessful due to light pollution" is that well supported by the statement in the source that "which was a real challenge"
 * "In 1973, he received an M.S. in Aeronomy and Planetary Science at the University of Michigan and earned a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science at the same university in 1977" - Supported
 * " He remained in the organization for 41 years, until his retirement in 2011" - close paraphrasing to the source. Since it's NASA, there's two options to deal with this - you can note in the sources that the article incorporates public domain material (I think there's a template for that) or you can just rephrase the sentence in the article.
 * " Principal Investigator and chief scientist of the proposed ARES Mars Airplane Mission" - that's the exact phrasing as in the source. There's not a whole lot of ways this can be varied, and the source is PD material
 * "In July 2016, Levine served as an organizer, chair and speaker at the Viking 40th Anniversary Science Symposium" - okay
 * " As of February 18, 2021, Levine is also serving as an active consultant for the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia" - okay
 * "Levine is the author or co-author of more than 175 scientific articles, and served as editor and contributor to seven books. Levine was also invited to give two TED talks (in 2009 and 2015, respectively)" - In the lead. I can't find those stats in the source.
 * "A U-2 plane, piloted by NASA scientist Wesley Cofer III" - source calls it a helicopter, not a U-2 plane
 * "According to The New York Times, the cable from the helicopter snagged on one of the few telephone wires within the 1,000-square-mile San Dimas Experimental Forest, and the helicopter then lost control and crashed over 30 yards down a steep slope, becoming completely destroyed in the process, and sending shards into a nearby firetruck. The pilot, who was later identified as Gary Lineberry, crawled out and walked away, only suffering light scratches" - Sourced to the Spokane Chronicle, the NYT is not mentioned at all.  Source just says that it snagged on a utility wire, not that there were few of them and does not mention 1000 square miles.  Source says that is was "badly damaged", not that it ws completely destroyed.
 * "The vegetation was already scheduled to be set on fire as part of a periodic "prescribed burn" by the Los Angeles County Fire Department, a local program to prune overgrowth in order to prevent uncontrolled forest fires" - okay
 * "Levine was brought in as a consultant for the rescue mission due to his extensive knowledge of atmospheric gases and how they can affect humans, both in extraterrestrial and Earth environments" - source supports that he was brought in as a consultant on the mission, but attributes the selection to his "unique experience". It looks like you might be extrapolating the causes of the selection from other sources without direct support from the cited source.
 * " NASA engineers designed the Fénix 2 with Levine's recommendations in mind, and the rescue capsule was built and deployed by the Chilean Navy without issue. All 33 miners were saved and were found to be in good medical condition upon rescue" - only the second of these two sentences is supported
 * "NASA needed to know if there would be any gas-related dangers to the miners as they were being carried up, if oxygen needed to be sent down with the capsule, and if the miners would need gas masks to survive the journey. Levine spent the next 24 hours studying the issue, and wrote a report to NASA outlining the concentration of gases the miners were expected to deal with, and concluded that there did not appear to be any likelihood of toxic gases present in the mine, and that the escape vehicle did not need a totally hermetically-sealed and pressurized nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere to ensure the welfare of the miners" - Source supports most of this. However, "and concluded that there did not appear to be any likelihood of toxic gases present in the mine, and that the escape vehicle did not need a totally hermetically-sealed and pressurized nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere to ensure the welfare of the miners" is extrapolated from "and concluded that carrying oxygen was not necessary", which is not strong support
 * "Arlene Levine started her career at NASA in 1984, studying the psychological effects of astronauts spending long time periods in space." - I can only access the abstract of this paper, but does is really support that she started in 1984? The abstract just says that she was a summer Faculty Fellow at Langley in 1984.  Is a start date of 1984 found in that paper, which is by Levine?
 * "In addition to reaching out to black students in elementary schools, the Levines also helped develop a summer space science program for Native-American students living on reservations, in partnership with the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES). On November 20, 2010, the Levines received the National Alliance of Black School Educators President's Award, which was presented to them by astronaut and personal friend Leland Melvin" - I can't find anything about AISES in the source.
 * "In 1952, the Charters of Freedom were sealed in specially prepared airtight enclosures of tinted glass filled with humidified helium to protect the documents" - source says "early 1950s", not 1952 specifically
 * "However, NASA ultimately decided to select the Phoenix stationary lander, designed by the University of Arizona, for the first $386 million Mars Scout Mission" - okay, although the source does name a few other groups who worked on it
 * "In 2014, Levine served on the committee responsible for determining which scientific instruments would be used on the Perseverance Mars rover, choosing roughly a dozen experiments to land on Mars out of a pool of over 50 possible devices" - okay
 * Hog Farm I just went through the article, and fixed or added citations for everything you mentioned. Hopefully I didn't inadvertently add any more mistakes this time around! Let me know if you find any other issues :) Yitz (talk) 00:05, 11 March 2021 (UTC)