Talk:Christopher C. Kraft, Jr.

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Contents 1 Plans 2 GA 3 Great article! 4 Awards and Honors 5 Spoken article 6 Broken reference link 7 ref consolidation

[edit] Plans

I will be expanding this article section by section, hoping to get it to GA status or beyond. Any comments or help are most welcome. MLilburne 10:00, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GA

Congrats on a Good Article. It does draw heavily from Kraft's autobiography, but still demostrates a well-written and researched article. Well done! Check-Six 21:38, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Great article!

A worthy addition to the FA line, especially today is the anniversary of the original moon landing. RashBold (talk · contribs) 05:06, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

I second this sentiment. Bravo! to all the editors who contributed to this. Well done! Hamster Sandwich 10:46, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Awards and Honors

The article says that Kraft Elementary School is in Hampton, VA near Kraft's hometown, Phoebus, VA. I was wondering if this should be changed, as Phoebus is now a defunct city and has been absorbed into Hampton. Any thoughts? Andrew Elgert 13:53, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Spoken article

I've started recording this as a spoken article. Just thought I should say, to avoid duplication of effort. Angus Lepper^{(T, C, D)} 17:06, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Broken reference link

Link #2 (Nystrom, re: Ruffner Medal") is broken and does not link to the article in question; there are other pages online which note him winning the award, but I haven't found anything with the material that's referenced. P.S. Which birthday is correct, the one in the intro or the one in the infobox? MisfitToys 23:07, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about the delay in replying. I've fixed the birthdate. As for the link, it is broken but can be chased up via the Wayback Machine. I'll fix that too. MLilburne 09:56, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ref consolidation

I think we should strive to have great reference consolidation. Personally, I do not need a footnote down to the exact page. I can deal with a ten-to-twenty page range to find information. That would significantly reduce the number of total references we have on this page, which are very repetitive and odd-looking, especially the ones to Kraft's own Flight. Clearly done by an engineer.--SallyForth123 17:34, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

I assure you I'm not an engineer, although I'm flattered you think so! The purpose of references is to allow readers to look up the source of the information if they want to know more. Full citations do include exact page numbers, as you will see from Wikipedia:Citing_sources. I'm sorry it looks odd to you, but that's the accepted way to do things. MLilburne 08:50, 23 August 2007 (UTC)