Talk:Anthony W. Case

I here state for the record that the subject of the article is not a relative of mine. Daniel Case (talk) 02:52, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 11:05, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

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• ... that astrophysicist Anthony W. Case, who designed instruments for the Parker Solar Probe, survived four gunshot wounds during the 1998 Thurston High School shooting? Source: "Case was among 25 classmates wounded by student Kip Kinkel on May 21, 1998 ... 'I got shot three times in the back and one time in the leg,' says Case, now 41 and living in Sudbury, Massachusetts ... On August 12, 2018, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe blasted off a platform in Cape Canaveral, as Case and dozens of other scientists watched. Now an astrophysicist with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Case and his team developed a cup-like instrument for the probe that collects particles from the sun to help scientists learn more about solar winds." "24 years after Thurston School Shooting, Tony Case's life has taken on a remarkable trajectory", KLCC-FM; May 22, 2022
  • ALT1: ... that the injuries Anthony W. Case suffered in a school shooting led him to give up baseball and turn to astrophysics as a career? Source: "As a junior in high school, Tony had imagined that he might play baseball in college, but he dropped that idea after he was shot ... If his injuries from the shooting had not led him to give up his baseball ambitions, would he 'have studied physics and ended up working on all the cool stuff that I’ve worked on?' he asked. He doubted it. 'If I had been pushing more toward baseball, there’s no way I could have been studying as much,' he said."; "What Happens to a School Shooter's Sister?". The New Yorker; December 4, 2023.
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Created by Daniel Case (talk). Self-nominated at 07:08, 18 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Anthony W. Case; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• Article was newly created prior to nomination, is more than long enough, and has citations throughout. Hook facts are interesting and cited as demonstrated above. It appears to be written neutrally. Earwig's copyvio detector detects the quotes that are used with proper attribution. QPQ is provided. – Muboshgu (talk) 21:46, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

SWEAP

Is the first paragraph in the SWEAP section, necessary? This platform assumes knowledge as a prerequisite all the time - doesn't seem like the background really fits in regular English Wikipedia. 25eanglin (talk) 04:10, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

If the SWEAP article explained all that, which it doesn't, I'd agree with you. Daniel Case (talk) 04:16, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

im sure the information is in another linked article, nevertheless: change the SWEAP article, not the one connected with on its history 25eanglin (talk) 04:24, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

If you're as sure as you say you are, post the linked article here. Daniel Case (talk) 06:32, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Well I mean I don't have to - this is pretty basic helioseismology, from what I gather, and Wikipedia is just about an everything encyclopeadia. 25eanglin (talk) 16:01, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Still, though, I am mindful of WP:PCR and WP:OBVIOUS. I mean, "pretty basic helioseismology" is like saying "pretty basic macroeconomics" for most people. As the article now is readers would have no understanding, if they didn't go over to the SWEAP article (and yes, I linked it from the top of the section, but in 18 years or so of editing I have learned what I knew from real life applies to Wikipedia that people have a stunning capacity for missing important information put right where they can see it. (And readers on phones, which whatever we think of them as an interface device, we have more and more of every day, may also miss this or find it inconveniently placed by whatever mobile software they're using)

Also, people have clicked the article to get information about a person. They may know nothing about how the sun works that would allow them not to need the coronal heating problem explained and why the PSP (which, without explanatory material on the probe, might lead them to wonder why NASA is using a videogame system to probe the sun) is going so close to the sun to collect particles that required the construction of this cup thing. Daniel Case (talk) 17:11, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

I have eliminated the first paragraph of that section. Daniel Case (talk) 06:38, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

And the second one too. Both are now at SWEAP instead. Daniel Case (talk) 06:43, 21 February 2024 (UTC)