Talk:SR-71 Blackbird/GA1

GA Reassessment

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I am placing this article's GA status up for reassessment for a few reasons. First, this article attained GA status three years ago. Also, in accordance with the good article criteria, I believe that this article is deficient in the following areas:

• Factually accurate and verifiable (2 a,b,c)
  • There are several sections that lack any referencing and other instances where original research may have worked into the article. Specifically the following sections are deficient in my eyes: Design and operational details (most of the sub-sections could use more citations) Astro-Inertial Navigation System (ANS) and Sensors and payloads completely lack citations, the first two sub-sections of Operational history need more citations on the facts, the Flight simulator section is extremely deficient with only one in-line citation, the aircraft on display section is unreferenced, and the Popular culture section is unreferenced as well. (I also believe that it may not meet WP:TRIVIA). These are only examples, some of which I will identify in the article with fact and maintenance tags.

I will leave this assessment open for at least a week before making the decision to delist this article or not. -MBK₀₀₄ 22:39, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

While I note that there has been some improvement made to this article, some of the sections that I signled out a week ago are still completely unreferenced, and I also just placed a number of fact tags in the article. Unfortunately due to these issues still remaining, I have delisted this article from WP:GA. -MBK₀₀₄ 22:05, 16 February 2009 (UTC)