Talk:Evelyn Pruitt
Latest comment: 1 year ago by Rs wrangler in topic "Highest ranking woman"
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Did you know nomination
edit- 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 Lightburst (talk) 14:42, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
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- ... that Evelyn Pruitt coined the term "remote sensing" in the early 1960s? Source:Fussell, Jay; Rundquist, Donald; Harrington, John A. (September 1986). "On defining remote sensing" (PDF). Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 52 (9): 1507–1511. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 4, 2021.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ana Amado
- Comment: Note on the QPQ: This is only my second DYK review, and in my first review I noted one issue. I fully intend to follow up on the DYK review, so I don't view it as complete. I am not clear if this counts for my QPQ.
Created by DaffodilOcean (talk) and RosarioIac (talk). Nominated by DaffodilOcean (talk) at 13:27, 7 June 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Evelyn Pruitt; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
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Hook eligibility:
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- I think the hook could be more interesting. The things about her being the first woman to serve in the USCGS, the highest ranking woman in the Navy at the time of her retirement, how she advanced the use of satellites in surveys, and how she spearheaded the development of remote sensing as a field, all strike me as more interesting than her simply coining a term.
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Grnrchst (talk) 22:17, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
- How about? @Grnrchst:
...that Evelyn Pruitt was the highest ranking woman in the United States Navy when she retired in 1973? Source is citation #2, Map Worlds book Van den Hoonard DaffodilOcean (talk) 02:15, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
Support alternative hook. --Grnrchst (talk) 09:40, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
"Highest ranking woman"
editThis is somewhat misleading unless she had a military rank. Perhaps it should be made clear that she was a civilian scientist if she did not. If she did, have a military rank, what was it? Wastrel Way (talk) Eric Wastrel Way (talk) 12:08, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
- How would she compare to Grace Hopper Rs wrangler (talk) 22:52, 21 June 2023 (UTC)