Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aviation/Aerospace biography task force

All astronaut bios
Is there consensus that (presumtively) all biography articles about individual astronauts are within the scope of this task force? Does that imply all talk pages associated with articles that transclude Infobox Astronaut should be marked with WPAVIATION with "Biography=yes"? (sdsds - talk) 18:56, 25 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I think that that's safe to say. If you wish add the banner, go for it. If there are any objections they would arise on a page by page basis. - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 19:11, 25 July 2008 (UTC)


 * All those articles should also include HSF Project 76.66.196.218 (talk) 15:37, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Now the HSF banner is deprecated; please use WikiProject Spaceflight.. thanks. Mlm42 (talk) 20:04, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

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There's a new template Template:WPAVIATION creator that can be used to assist in creating new articles. It will start things off by creating a page with all the standard information/headers/infoboxes, etc. You just have to fill in the blanks and save. It's still in the early design stages, so check it out and let me know how it can be improved. - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 22:02, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Juan Pablo Aldasoro
I plan to rename the subject article to Aldasoro brothers and to create redirects to the individual brothers, Aldasoro and Eduardo Aldasoro Suárez, similar to Wright brothers and Boland brothers. This seems the best way to handle these two inseparable brothers. Any other ideas? - Canglesea (talk) 20:48, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
 * That sounds like a good plan. We'll end up with two redirects pointing to the same article, which is as it should be for now. If at some later point someone wants to write an entire article about one or the other, they can easily replace the redirect with their article text. Note however that a google search shows there is another pair of "Aldasoro Brothers" in Telluride, Colorado, and google finds more references to them than to Juan Pablo and Eduardo. (sdsds - talk) 21:01, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Marianne Merchez
Should the Marianne Merchez article be tagged with WPAVIATION|biography=yes? She is licensed as a pilot, and was trained as an astronaut, and the page uses the astronaut infobox template, but she never flew in space. Where do we want to draw the line for cases like this? (sdsds - talk) 21:17, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, ✅ The biography tag includes everyone from earth-bound aeronautical engineers. to pilots, and astronauts. - Canglesea (talk) 03:18, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Initial Aerospace Biography Tagging
I've completed review and tagging of Biography articles in the Category:Aviation articles with no associated task force. Thanks to Trevor and others for their help as well. Our current count of 2,300+ biography articles should be fairly accurate now. I will review the Military aviation/biography lists to pick up a few more. - Canglesea (talk) 18:41, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Frederick George Miles
Miles was tagged as an aircraft project and I have just changed it it Biography as more appropriate, it is start class does the class stay the same with changing the sub-project? Thanks MilborneOne (talk) 19:10, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, the class stays the same. I have added the B/C Class checklist; it needs a better lead section, infobox, and better citations to be promoted to C or B class. Thanks, - Canglesea (talk) 00:04, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Aerospace biography
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 * I have reviewed the articles and improved them to at least a C-class assessment. - Canglesea (talk) 04:46, 16 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I have recorded the link for the 'best' version for each article available today. If anyone has some free time, Howard Hughes is the most problematic article on the list. - Canglesea (talk) 21:47, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

English aviators
I have been improving and adding info to some RAF officers and where appropriate adding the cat Category:English aviators. User:Kernel Saunters has removed it from Jeaffreson Greswell and added Category:Royal Air Force personnel of World War II and Category:British World War II pilots. As the later is a child category of British aviators Kernel Saunters says the it is absolutely pointless to list every English born pilot who served in the RAF in a general category as english aviators particularly when the RAF was British. Any thoughts, if english aviators is not for english aviators what is it for? Thanks MilborneOne (talk) 22:50, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Ronnie Nader
I've taken the liberty to tag Ronnie Nader of Ecuador to this task force after I had to protect the article due to edit warring over a lot of things starting from whether he should be considered an astronaut, a space tourist or what else.--Tikiwont (talk) 09:36, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

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WikiProject Biography
Since this task force exists, shouldn't a switch be implemented at WPBIO for aerospace? 76.66.196.218 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 13:08, 25 April 2009 (UTC).

Article for deletion
For information article on test pilot Richard E. Gray has been nominated for deletion. MilborneOne (talk) 17:44, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

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Category:Female aviators
I have a suggestion... subcategorize this with Category:Female air force pilots and Category:Female aces. 70.29.208.129 (talk) 08:25, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

File:Space Barnstar Idea 1.png
File:Space Barnstar Idea 1.png has been nominated for deletion. 70.29.208.129 (talk) 05:14, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

File:Barnstar-shooting-star.png
File:Barnstar-shooting-star.png has been nominated for deletion. 70.29.208.129 (talk) 05:18, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

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Neil Armstrong needs help
As we near the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, the article on Neil Armstrong could use just a little work. Thanks for your help, JMG (talk) 07:30, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) Someone has tagged a few sentences "citation needed" - it would be great to get those cleaned-up.
 * 2) There seems to be a small discrepancy between Apollo 11 and Neil Armstrong concerning how much fuel the lunar lander had for landing.

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WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/New Georgia Encyclopedia/Charles Lindbergh
The New Georgia Encyclopedia ("NGE") has authorized Wikipedia to import and/or merge eleven articles, which I have copied to project space; one of these is WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/New Georgia Encyclopedia/Charles Lindbergh (which focuses on Lindbergh's associations with Georgia).

If we are able to do a professional job of moving/merging these article into mainspace, the NGE will likely permit us to import their remaining body of over 2,200 well-researched and well-written articles, which could pioneer a trend for other private owners of encyclopedic content to release their materials into our corpus. I would deeply appreciate any help that we can muster in accomplishing this. Please note that the original NGE article (linked in the required attribution section of the above article in project space) has images, but NGE is unable to convey those to us at this time, as they are individually licensed by NGE. Cheers! bd2412 T 16:17, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Swoose Snead
I just found the Swoose Snead article, which is in dire need of help. It reads as if it were copied from an unofficial Navy or company bio, but has absolutely no souces. Also, we usually don't title bio articles by informal nicknames; even Kelly Johnson's bio is at his given name, Clarence Johnson. Any help with this article would be appreciated. - BilCat (talk) 21:39, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

The article appers to be a partial copyvio of this site, which site is copyrighted to Joel Jacobs, who is credited as writing the bio. There is an obituary from Wings of Gold here, which is probably usable as a reliable source. The article was uploaded by User:Cpheisey1 as his only edit, and appears to be Philip Heisey, Snead's son-in-law. - BilCat (talk) 22:01, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Request: Robert DeHaven
DeHaven was a WWII ace, credited with 10 kills. He later became Howard Hughes' personal pilot and an executive of the Hughes Company. Sources include Fire In The Sky: The Air War In The South Pacific ISBN 9780813338699.  Will Beback   talk    00:56, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Inactivity?
Is this task force inactive? I've put a tag on it, since it appears to be.. feel free to remove it, if I'm mistaken. Mlm42 (talk) 17:32, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Talk:Douglas Bader/GA1
Douglas Bader is being reviewed for GA listing. It has been put on hold for an initial 14 days to allow issues such as prose, inline citing and detailed coverage to be addressed.  SilkTork  *YES! 16:36, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Files_for_deletion/2011_April_13
All opinions welcome. Thank you. walk victor falktalk 18:10, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Out of uniform
Can we get uniform treatment of military bios? I've seen pages started with final rank & with no rank. (I default to no rank, since they weren't born with it.) I'm raising the issue here, also, but suggest it be discussed here, because this would appear to be the "lead project". (Also, I don't anticipate adding anythng further. ;p )  TREKphiler   any time you're ready, Uhura  16:48 & 16:52, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
 * This project would normally defer to Military History project as the lead project on such matters. MilborneOne (talk) 17:13, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

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Tadeusz Wrona (aviator)
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Human height
Just seeking a wider range of input from informed persons at Template_talk:Height.--Gibson Flying V (talk) 01:20, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

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Inactive
I see somebody has flagged the task force as inactive, just to say I am still here! MilborneOne (talk) 13:14, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Article assessment for B-class
Can a regular contributor to this sub-project have a crack at some of the 7,400 odd articles requiring B-class assessment (mostly airlines and biography) ((I have done most of the rest))--Petebutt (talk) 11:20, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

astronaut physical description section
I noticed a few had this and it seems strange to me... what is the point of this? I can understand height and weight being of interest, but eye color and hair color? Why is that important? —Мандичка YO 😜 15:01, 15 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Aha! I came here about that too. An IP editor in Serbia has been adding them like here to Scott Carpenter. At least 6 IPs, obviously the same editor are involved, I also brought related issues up here at  Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spaceflight. At least they are sourced. 220  of  Borg 15:23, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

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Richard Haine nominated for deletion

 * - Adds source search options
 * - Adds relevant links
 * A Distinguished Flying Cross award winner 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 11:44, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

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Mac Ross and 60+ articles up for deletion

 * Relisted. Another Tuskegee airmen, among the first to get wings, and a squadron commander.  Kerfuffle over notability.  One of 65 articles under consideration.  7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 20:40, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Relisted. Another Tuskegee airmen, among the first to get wings, and a squadron commander.  Kerfuffle over notability.  One of 65 articles under consideration.  <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 20:40, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Relisted. Another Tuskegee airmen, among the first to get wings, and a squadron commander.  Kerfuffle over notability.  One of 65 articles under consideration.  <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 20:40, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Willie H. Fuller
Tuskeegee. <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 20:25, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
 * First black amerifan flight instructor at
 * First black amerifan flight instructor at

Proposed for deletion (PROD): Roger Adam
FYI, the article Advance for NPs & PAs has been proposed for deletion (WP:PROD). The first sentences summarize the subject thusly:


 * "Roger Adam was a French aircraft designer and manufacturer who produced light aircraft in kit from 1948 to 1955. He established the firm Etablissements Aeronautiques R. Adam."

The nominator wrote this summary of their concerns:


 * "Unsourced for over a decade. Only found trivial mentions in online databases, does not seem to be notable enough to pass WP:NBIO."

If you agree or disagree with deletion, there are instructions on the deletion notice for what to do.

Thanks, A. B. (talk • contribs • global count) 14:00, 7 September 2023 (UTC)