Talk:Operation Moonwatch

message: The passage
"These two networks – one composed of amateurs and the other of seasoned professionals – helped further Whipple’s personal goals of expanding his own astronomical empire. This chapter explores how Whipple mediated and organized the participation of amateurs to further his own institutional goals"
seems both repetitive and out-of-place ("This chapter" suggests it has been cut-&-pasted from another text).  I cannot speak as to its accuracy (though I've never come across similar descriptions of Whipple in 40 years of reading about Astronomy), but it reads like an overly-judgemental, subjective interpretation which if retained should be sourced, and would in any case be better placed in the article on Whipple himself. 40.0.96.1 11:38, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
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message: The current article contains a lot of unsourced material.  The most questionable material is in the Legacy section, which includes statements such as 
: When the Smithsonian discontinued the program in 1975, one long-time Moonwatcher compared his participation to “winning the Medal of Honor.” 
Umm... okay, but that's surely a monumentally stupid thing to say, and it is completely unsourced, so I think that sentence should be deleted.  The article goes on to say
: Quite a few people started their science careers through Moonwatch. 
That's conceivably true, but can we have a source for this?  Did a higher percentage of Moonwatch participants enter science than the general population?  The article cites only one example, of a not-terribly-notable person (James Westphal).  If that's the best we can come up with, I think the claim is not supported.
The article claims that
: The program boosted science programs at many small schools throughout the country and helped revitalize the amateur science community in the United States.
Can we have a citation for this?  Finally, the legacy section concludes with the unsourced statement
: Scientists’ ability to say, with precision, where satellites are formed the basis for today’s Global Positioning System and was also valuable to the military during the Cold War.
Well, Operation Moonwatch had nothing whatsoever to do with today's GPS system, so that statement should be deleted.  Whether Moonwatch was valuable to the military during the Cold War is debatable, but it would be nice to have a source for this.
Overall, much of the Legacy section is unsourced fluff that should be deleted.Urgent01 (talk) 07:45, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
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