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Four Award for Paradise Airlines Flight 901A

		Four Award
		Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on Paradise Airlines Flight 901A. You may also be interested in claiming a Triple Crown, which is awarded for getting a DYK, GA, and FA. 3C doesn't require it to be the same article, but meeting the criteria for 4A means you also meet the 3C criteria :) ♠PMC♠ (talk) 09:35, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you today for the article, "about an airline flight from Oakland to South Lake Tahoe that never reached its destination. The article describes the flight, the aircraft, and the aftermath of the investigations that were launched when the aircraft crashed into a mountain"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:37, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

flights

Thank you for quality articles about individual flights such as Paradise Airlines Flight 901A, Pan Am Flight 7 and American Airlines Flight 320, for people like Francesco Zirano, for quality reviewing, for "You'll probably learn something you didn't know", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2917 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:03, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Parallelism and compounds

You reverted my edit to Paradise Airlines Flight 901A to read: "That crew said that they had encountered icing conditions at 12000 ft, snow showers over Lake Tahoe, and that clouds had obscured the tops of mountains in the vicinity." That sentence contains a misuse of parallelism, arising from a compound object within a compound object. The crew "encountered" "icing" and "snow showers" and "reported" this encounter and also that "clouds had obscured the tops of mountains". The three objects are thus not all equal (parallel). Displayed hierarchically, you get:

"That crew said

[1] that they had encountered

[a] icing conditions at 12000 ft,

[b] snow showers over Lake Tahoe,

[2] and that clouds had obscured the tops of mountains in the vicinity."

Because [a] and [b] are the only two parts of the compound object of "encountered", they should be connected by an "and". A second "and" is needed to connect [1] and [2], the two parts of the compound object of "said". The alternative would be to rewrite the sentence to read something like: "That crew said that they had encountered icing conditions at 12000 ft, that there were snow showers over Lake Tahoe, and that clouds had obscured the tops of mountains in the vicinity."

Compound-compounds and the related parallelism are among the hardest things to learn about English. My students got 'em wrong all the time. Minturn (talk) 17:06, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good suggestion. I have changed it to the wording you suggested. RecycledPixels (talk) 18:06, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A victory for the English language! Well done. Minturn (talk) 20:12, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion of Pan Am Flight 214

Congratulations, RecycledPixels! The article you nominated, Pan Am Flight 214, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Gog the Mild (talk) via FACBot (talk) 19:45, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pan Am Flight 214 scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 17 August 2024. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 2024, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/August 2024. Please keep an eye on that page, as comments regarding the draft blurb may be left there by user:dying, who assists the coordinators by making suggestions on the blurbs, or by others. I also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks, and congratulations on your work! Gog the Mild (talk) 14:18, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you today for the article, introduced as "a Pan Am flight that crashed in December 1963 while flying between Baltimore, Maryland and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the first time that a jet aircraft operated by Pan Am had crashed in the five years that they had been flying, and the crash highlighted the previously unknown risks of lightning strikes on aircraft in flight, leading to new safety parameters in aircraft design."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:12, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

File:Boeing 707 "Stratoliner", 3rd 707-121 production airplane, N709PA, later delivered to Pan Am.jpg

Hi @RecycledPixels. If you think PD-US of this photo is seem suspicious. Please nominate for deletion on Commons and wrtie reason why you want to delete it. See: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests. Regards Tô Ngọc Khang (talk) 07:18, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Western Air Lines Flight 636

On 8 November 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Western Air Lines Flight 636, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that two of the victims and much of the aircraft involved in the crash of Western Air Lines Flight 636 were never removed from San Francisco Bay? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Western Air Lines Flight 636. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Western Air Lines Flight 636), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:03, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 16,138 views (672.4 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of November 2024 – nice work!

GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:27, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]