- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:59, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
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Valentina Tereshkova
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Valentina Tereshkova and Valery Bykovsky
... that Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (pictured), the first woman in space, spent almost three days in orbit, surpassing the combined flight time of all Americans that flew before her?- ALT1:
... that Soviet cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova (pictured), the first woman in space, and Valery Bykovsky, in a longer concurrent spaceflight, each surpassed the combined flight time of all Americans before them?
- ALT1:
- Reviewed: Felipe Reinoso
- Comment: For July 21
Improved to Good Article status by Coffeeandcrumbs (talk) and Kees08 (talk). Nominated by Coffeeandcrumbs (talk) at 22:05, 12 July 2019 (UTC).
- Comment - I like ALT1 best of the two offered, because it gives equal weight to the flight of Bykovsky, the other cosmonaut in the image. Without the image, I'm neutral on which I like better. — Maile (talk) 00:23, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
GA received same day as nomination. New enough, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. All images in article freely licensed. QPQ done.- We're not running the image in the July 21 set, and ALT1 adds more wordiness by bringing in another cosmonaut, so I've struck ALT1. But I don't think the ALT0 fact is so hooky. It kind of reflects Gagarin's quote, which is much more hooky, but we already have Gagarin himself running in this July 21 set. It's more interesting to me that she circled the Earth 48 times, or even more, something about her personal background leading to her selection as a female cosmonaut or her post-space touring program. In one source it said she had to lie to her mother that she was parachuting, as her mission was top-secret, but that fact was not included in the article. Yoninah (talk) 01:45, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
- ALT2 ... that Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova made 42 trips abroad between 1963 and 1970 in response to invitations she received after becoming the first woman in space? — Maile (talk) 02:39, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
- ALT3
... that photographs taken by Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova during her 1963 orbits of the earth, were later used to identify aerosol layers within the atmosphere?— Maile (talk) 02:55, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
- @Maile66 and Yoninah: I really like ALT2 and it has strong RS support. In the 1960s, Tereshkova was more popular that even Gagarin. He was uncomfortable with the burden of fame but Tereshkova flourished in her increased prominence (until the collapse of the Communist Party). I think ALT3 is too technical to be interesting to a wide audience. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 15:15, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
