Bio
Thanks' for visiting my user page.
My name is Kaleb Shaw. I'm a high school student and distance running athlete. I'm also a Civil Air Patrol cadet. Civil Air Patrol conducts 90% of inland search and rescue missions, and is a civilian auxiliary wing of the U.S. Air Force.
I visit Wikipedia for a variety of topics, but mainly history. I also often visit Wikipedia for information on aeronautics and flight certifications or maps.
Article Evaluation
editCessna is one of the largest designers and producers of aircraft worldwide. There's a saying in the aviation community, no matter what plane they fly now, whether it's a fighter jet or low orbit capable bomber, they started in a Cessna. With this in mind, I decided to visit the Cessna 414 article on Wikipedia and found three aspects of it worth commenting on citation errors, out-of-date information, and dead links.
The article has multiple cited sources and links, but 1 of them sends you to an invalid URL. The link of the article is from an archive, however, the original is also linked and working fine. This leads me to possibly believe that the archived link was linked even though it was wrong to lead users to the correct link instead of the faulty one. This however is not the usual procedure in a Wikipedia article and it still counts as a dead link.
As well as dead links, the article also has missing citations. In the operator's section, the Wikipedia article labels Lebanon and the Bahamas as military operators of the Cessna 414. There is no citation for this information, and no article in the references list that explains it. This brings me to my final aspect
While looking for articles of the Lebanese and Royal Bahamas Armed forces that show their aircraft inventory, I found that Lebanon and the Royal Bahamas Armed Forces have no Cessna 414s in their inventory. They may have at one point, as they have Cessna 208s and other Cessna aircraft in inventory, but more recent inventory shows no Cessna 414s in inventory. Many of these reports are conflicting, however, and it is possible that Cessna 414s are used in auxiliary or not listed in the inventories for any other number of reasons such as decommissioning and damages.
Article Evaluation References
edithttps://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/lebanon/airforce-equipment.htm
https://www.4aviation.nl/reports/article-lebanese-air-force/
http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/tag/royal-bahamas-defence-force
References
edit2019 CAP Fact Sheet (n.d.) Retrieved September 22, 2020, from
https://www.gocivilairpatrol.com/media/cms/capfactsheet201911581843_04B9F7B6EFB1E.pdf