Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/SPARS

Nominator(s): Pendright (talk)

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I am nominating this article for A-Class on behalf of Pendright. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:29, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

SPARS is about the Women who served in the U.S. Coast Guard Women's Reserve during WW II. Created by the U.S Congress, it authorized the USCG to replace male officers and enlisted men with women at shore stations. Working with the top-secret LORAN project was its most unique assignment. LORAN was a land-based radio navigation system developed to monitor locations of ships at sea and aircraft in flight. Monitoring stations were able to calculate a ship's exact location by measuring the amount of time each signal took to reach a ship. Chatham, Massachusetts, was staffed by SPARS and believed to be the only all-female staffed monitoring station of its kind in the world. Pendright (talk) 20:57, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

HF

I'll try to review this soon. Please ping me if I haven't started in a week. Hog Farm _Talk 00:04, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"when Executive order 8929 directed the Coast Guard to operate as part of the Navy" - it looks like Executive Order frequently has both words capitalized in sources

Upper cased - Pendright (talk) 03:45, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"expedite the war effort by providing for releasing officers and men for sea duty and replacing them with women in the shore establishment of the Coast Guard and for other purposes. " - is this italicized portion a direct quote? If so, I think it would be clearer shown in quotation marks

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Italics are used for emphasis, rather than boldface or capitals. But overuse diminishes its effect; consider rewriting instead. With or without emphasis is fine with me. Pendright (talk) 04:50, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"which was the Women's Reserve of the U.S. Navy" - I think this can be ommitted, since the prior paragraph has introduced the WAVES and the Women's Naval Reserve

Frankly, I see no real benefit in omitting it, or any real harm in not omitting it. The use of repetition in writing is not uncommon. There are no rules or prohibitions against the judicious use of repetition in article writing. Pendright (talk)

"The legislation passed in late 1942, and was signed into law on November 23." - this has already been stated in the background section

Deleted in late 1942 Pendright (talk) 21:15, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article title is SPARS with all letters capitalized, but throughout the article it is consistently SPARs with the last letter lowercase

Explanation: In June 2024, at my request, the article was copyedited by the Guild of Copy Editors and the editor left this comment:

As part of my recent GOCE edit, I tried to unify the usage/formatting of the term "SPARS" (and variants). Looking through the sources revealed a variety of usage, even within articles produced by one organization (such as the USCG online newsletter "My CG", searching for articles tagged "SPARs" or "Spar"). So I made some choices, based on USCG usage, and came up with my own 'standard'.

Pendright (talk) 22:18, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

More to come later. Hog Farm _Talk 01:45, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Link Frank Knox?

Linked Pendright (talk) 00:12, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

" (Lt. (j.g.)—joined" - I think you're missing another closing paranthesis after the last one

Corrected: Lt. (j.g.) -> Lieutenant (junior grade) Pendright (talk) 00:12, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Standardize between MIT and M.I.T.

Fixed - MIT Pendright (talk) 00:39, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is there anything that discusses why the SPARs were heavily from those sets of states? Was that the population centers in the 1940s, or was SPAR recruitment mainly focused in those areas?

These were the population centers at the time. Pendright (talk) 00:39, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"she was still in active service with a complement of eight officers and 40 enlisted" - I'm not seeing here the 8 and 40 figure is coming from. This has 8 and 42

~~::Info-box: Complement ->~~

~~8 Officers~~

~~40 Enlisted~~ Pendright (talk) 03:07, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! changed text, source, and citation info

Pendright (talk) 05:01, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hog Farm _Talk 21:08, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Supporting although this is a subject that I don't really anything at all about, so this should be considered a surface-level review. Hog Farm _Talk 23:08, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Pendright (talk) 00:43, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]