Talk:1950 USS Missouri grounding

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Good article1950 USS Missouri grounding has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Did You Know Article milestones
DateProcessResult
October 7, 2009Good article nomineeListed
October 16, 2009Featured topic candidatePromoted
February 5, 2010WikiProject peer reviewReviewed
April 12, 2022Featured topic removal candidateDemoted
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 25, 2009.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that it took two weeks and 23 vessels to free the battleship Missouri after she ran aground (pictured) on 17 January 1950?
Current status: Good article

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draft on grounding ("0 in" change)[edit]

Hi!


I made a minor change {{convert|35|ft|m}} to {{convert|35|ft|0|in|m}} in order to avoid a rounding of the measurement in metres. (reverted by North8000). I admit in code this change looks inconsequential, but in the conversion it makes a real difference

old, 0.20m difference:

  • bow: 35 feet (11 m)
  • stern: 36 feet 9 inches (11.20 m)


new. 0.53m difference:

  • bow: 35 feet 0 inches (10.67 m)
  • stern: 36 feet 9 inches (11.20 m)

Trublu (talk) 10:19, 7 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]


@Trublu: I reverted only for the noted reasons....it was unexplained and also it conflicted with your own edit summary. You said you were modifying the stern numbers while you actually modified (only) the bow numbers. With your further note, you are replacing 35 feet (which presumably came from the source and implies the normal level of uncertainty) with 35 feet 0 inches which adds an unsourced more precise measurement and and unsourced smaller level of uncertainty. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 14:36, 7 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I see. I hadn't noticed that I mixed up bow and stern in the description. I didn't intend to imply an accuracy increase, only to resolve the problematic rounding when comparing bow and stern. I now double-checked with the original source (Newell, p. 71) and it lists the draft as 35 feet 9 inches (10.90 m), so it was wrong either way --Trublu (talk) 15:32, 7 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Cool. Thanks for your work. North8000 (talk) 12:50, 8 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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