Talk:Solar eclipse of May 20, 2012

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Solar eclipse of May 20, 2012 has been listed as one of the Natural sciences 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.
Review: February 19, 2018. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Solar eclipse of May 20, 2012 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 March 2018 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the solar eclipse of May 20, 2012, began on a Monday and ended on the previous Sunday?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2018/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Solar eclipse of May 20, 2012.

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What time?

I'm sure there are many people that will be reading about this awesome event, but would be interested to know specifically what time it's going to happen in their local area. Perhaps someone could either post a chart giving times by location, or a link to a site that lists what time the event will occur in their area? I've tried to find such a site, but couldn't find anything yet. Zul32 (talk) 16:13, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure if this will help you but I found a website that at least shows when and where for the USA. Go to accuweather.com click the 'weather for sunday's solar eclipse' link, down where it says SEE ALSO click the 'when, where to watch sunday's solar eclipse across the US' link. 174.47.128.253 (talk) 15:48, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Annularity not visible from Canada

The article text includes Canada as being in the path of annularity. I do not see it in the map provided. This inaccuracy should be removed from the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.27.190.178 (talk) 17:11, 5 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I added a photo

I added a photo of the annular solar eclipse of 20 May 2011 today. I saw it on Flickr this morning. I'm somewhat of a novice with this, hope I did it correctly. I uploaded the image file to Commons, included CC license, other info, categorized it etc., then inserted it here. I hope that was acceptable, and done correctly! --FeralOink (talk) 17:16, 29 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, the image was Creative Commons/by-nc-nd/2.0 instead of CC/by/2.0, so it is gone. --FeralOink (talk) 14:13, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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Reviewer: Ultimograph5 (talk · contribs) 00:11, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Starting to review this one as well. Ultimograph5 (talk) 00:11, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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(c) it contains no original research; and

(d) it contains no copyright violations or plagiarism.

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Review

Well-written:

Criteria	Notes	Result
(a) (prose)	Well written, clear and concise.	Pass
(b) (MoS)	Complies.	Pass

Verifiable with no original research:

Criteria	Notes	Result
(a) (references)	References where necessary.	Pass
(b) (citations to reliable sources)	All citations are reliable.	Pass
(c) (original research)	None found.	Pass
(d) (copyvio and plagiarism)	No plagiarism.	Pass

Broad in its coverage:

Criteria	Notes	Result
(a) (major aspects)	Major aspects (and minor ones) all covered.	Pass
(b) (focused)	Focused.	Pass

Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each.

Notes	Result
Neutral.	Pass

Stable: it does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute.

Notes	Result
Stable.	Pass

Illustrated, if possible, by media such as images, video, or audio:

Criteria	Notes	Result
(a) (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales)	All is fine here.	Pass
(b) (appropriate use with suitable captions)	Appropriate images. While there are a large amount of them, they provide an in-depth view to readers of what the event looked like.	Pass

Result

Result	Notes
Pass	I will pass this. I think it meets the standard, but maybe cut down on the photos.

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A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion:

November 3, 2013 Partial Eclipse in Ghana.jpg

Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 13:07, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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