Talk:CollectSPACE

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[edit] A couple of thoughts

• The list format of the timeline isn't really helping the style of the article. It could just be renamed "History of Collectspace," and the bullet points taken out.

• As much as I like the website, I can't agree that it's of middle importance in the history of space exploration generally. I'm revising it to low importance. (Sorry....) MLilburne 07:23, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

• Agree that the list format used to give a timeline for cS could be converted to a simple narrative. I can make these edits. As a researcher and writer, I have to place it at middle importance, if only for its utility as a fact-checking resource. In point of fact, the site acts as a valuable check on factual errors that sometimes pop up in the Wiki (and other online encylcopedias like astronautix.com) itself .

I'm a researcher too (doctoral student actually), so I take your point. But I think that while it's important TO the history of space exploration (as a source), it isn't important IN the history of space exploration, which is what the template is looking at. Mid-importance subjects include the James Webb Space Telescope, Saturn IB and Sub-orbital spaceflight, and I just can't consider collectSPACE as being in that category. MLilburne 16:16, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Fine. But by your lights then cS actually belongs in another category of Wiki articles. Why don't we make this happen, instead of recommending a downgrade in a Wiki category to which it does not properly belong? Do you have any ideas? The message boards are exceedingly valuable for the burgeoning field of space memorabilia and for researchers; the spaceflight history discussion boards are essential for at least this author, especially as I begin another project. Writers and researchers should know about this online resource. The Wiki nearly ensures that they will find it. See also, as an example of recent academic interest, Margaret A. Weitekamp, curator, Division of Space History, National Air and Space Museum, "Witnesses to History: Space Memorabilia as Evidence of the Space Program's Impact on American Culture," at the NASM/NASA conference on the Societal Impact of Space Exploration, Washington, D.C., Sept. 19-21, 2006 (proceedings forthcoming).

This is a good idea. There is a Wikipedia category for internet forums, which I'll add this article to; however, I'm not sure whether or not there's another WikiProject that it would fit into. Sorry that I'm not able to be more helpful. You might want to try asking for ideas on one of the Wikipedia advice pages. MLilburne 21:35, 10 October 2006 (UTC)