Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects

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Introduction

This project was originally formed to coordinate editors' efforts on creating articled related to astronomical objects. The project's original members worked together to develop a category hierarchy and a series of templates, including information boxes, that could be used to improve the articles' appearance and navigability.

Since then, this WikiProject has expanded in scope to deal with general astronomy-related subjects as well. This page itself links to a series of subpages that contain information on the templates used to create astronomical articles and web-related resources that may be useful for article creation. The talk page has become a forum to seek advice and build consensus for future article edits. Moreover, the WikiProject is also used as a bulletin board to announce maintenance-related issues, such as article and category renames and deletions.

If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page. The astronomy-related articles on Wikipedia are always in need of improvement; just indicate how you would like to help, and the project's members will direct you to pages that need work. Also, feel free to add your name to the membership list at the bottom of this page.

For more information on WikiProjects in genereal, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

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Projects

Projects

A list of the most important astronomical object topics is maintained at Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects/Worklist. Please work on bringing these articles up to good or featured standards! The standards required are given at Wikipedia:What is a featured article? and Wikipedia:What is a good article?.

Collaboration

The Astronomy Collaboration of the Week is currently inactive.

Newest astronomical object articles

Please feel free to list your new Astronomical objects-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the main page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.


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Rename/Delete Log

Rename/deletion/merge status update

To bring people up-to-date on the status of renamings and deletions:

Article renames

Article deletions

Category renames

Category deletions

Category mergers

Template deletions


I'm happy to do any AWB edits as required when these are approved, just leave me a message. WilliamKF 01:04, 7 December 2006 (UTC)


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Resources

Resources

Important resources for researching articles:


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Members: Astronomy

  1. Abyssoft (talk) I've principly been focusing on Asteroids (SSSBs) and trying to gather, update information and the displayed templates for them. I've also participated in the 'dwarf planet' debates.
  2. AMcWhatever I can do to help...
  3. Ardric47 I am by now probably a de facto minor participant, having done some lists and things with sourcing.
  4. AstroHurricane001(Talk) I'll work on improving and creating articles, as well as adding more info and references.
  5. Awolf002. Count me in! Up to now I just worked on biographies (crater eponyms) and this project looks good.
  6. BlytheG. As a high school student who plans to be an astonomer and science author, this is a great opportunity to both improve my range of knowledge as well as Wikipedia's info.
  7. B00P Working on some non-profound "Beginner" stuff.
  8. Branson03
  9. Chaos syndrome. Taking an extended break.
  10. Ckatz helping out where I can!
  11. Dr. Submillimeter I work on extragalactic pages,with particular focus on nearby galaxies.
  12. Eric Forste (talk) I feel as if this is the first wikiproject I've joined, so I'm gonna sign my name to it. All y'all that got this thing started up could go ahead and sign yours above mine (or we could just follow the alphabetical convention). Right now I'm working in a sandbox on adding the infobox to Proteus and then I'll be working on Nereid if no one beats me to it.
  13. Eurocommuter Contributing to trans-Neptunian and irregular satellites-related articles with diagrams and references.
  14. Fournax So much to choose from. I think I'll start on stars.
  15. GW_Simulations|User Page | Talk | Contribs | E-mail
  16. JamesHoadley (talk) It seems I'm helping out at the moment, so I may as well put my name down. Mostly I work on solar system planets and moons, deep sky stuff (nebulae, galaxies) and spacecraft (not in this topic).
  17. Jim Cornmell (talk) I'd like to help from the amateur astronomers perspective, as and when I can.
  18. Jyril. I've been creating asteroid and extrasolar planet articles for a long time. (Why I haven't signed earlier?)
  19. Legolost I'm good with astronomy, so count me in!
  20. Luka Krstulović, greetings from Croatia! I wasn't really working on Astronomical objects articles here, but I love astronomy, and hope I could help you with what's needed.
  21. Merovingian {T C @} Working on "minor planets" (a.k.a. asteroids) here and there.
  22. Nbound I'll do what I can to help :)
  23. Nebular110 I don't know how I'm going to find the time but I would love to help.
  24. NerdyNSK I have studied some Planetology at the Open University (UK). It's fun.
  25. Nicholas. I'm here too.
  26. Orionist. I'm in! sky is the limit!
  27. Riffsyphon1024, Been working on Mars features but can help here also.
  28. RJH (talk). These days I'm focusing on the work list core topics, as well as on nearby stars; trying to bring pages up to GA status. (Any help appreciated!) Still occasionally do work on lunar features, and re-check the mass of crater pages. :-)
  29. Rursus. I'll see what I can do, when I discover some knowledge missing ... Otherwise I'll just proofread here and there...
  30. shaggy Mostly working on cleaning up articles on trans-Neptunian objects and centaurs. Also, creating articles for notable TNOs and centaurs.
  31. siafu Working on maintaining the pages on the planets recently.
  32. Uber nemo (talk). I'll sign my name alphabetically. I am currently working on galaxy stubs and infoboxless articles.
  33. Urhixidur (talk). I've been banging away at asteroids, mostly.
  34. Volcanopele (talk). I've mostly worked on Saturnian satellite articles, particularly Enceladus, but I plan on working on any outer solar system satellite article that requires my attention.
  35. WilliamKF (talk). I've been working on Galaxies, Globular Clusters, and Nebulas. More recently using the AWB. Leave me a note if you need any repetitive tasks done with AWB.
  36. Mike Peel. I'm currently doing a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics, and will help where I can. I also run Peelbot, with AWB as a backend.
  37. Planemo 13:51, 10 December 2006 (UTC). Mostly focusing on Solar system.
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WikiProjects

Project Members Assessment
Space 10 No
Astronomy 2 No
Astronomical objects 35 Yes
Constellations 9 No
Martian Geography 7 Yes
Telescopes 2 No
Space exploration 5 Yes
Spacecraft 0 No
Launch vehicles 6 No
Mars Spacecraft 9 No
Space missions 23 No
Space travellers 2 No
Unmanned space missions 9 No
Timeline of spaceflight 4 No
Space Colonization 11 No
Moon 4 Yes

Member count current as of 3 November 2006.

  • WikiProjects - Directory of Space-related WikiProjects
  • Members - Complete member lists of all Space-related WikiProjects


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Portals


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Links


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Templates

Templates

Astronomical object articles need an infobox to show basic data about them. A complete list of the templates to be used is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects/Infoboxes.

When filling in scientific data, you may find the following templates useful:

  • {{±|pos|neg}} which produces: +pos−neg used thus: 500 +35−22 km. (Avoid using it in a link, though: it looks bad)
  • {{e|n}} which produces: ×10n used thus: 5.97{{e|24}} kg, which gives 5.97×1024 kg.

The DEC and RA templates have been improved to allow the omission of the third argument to result in a less precise location that is useful in the case of galaxy groups. For example:

  • {{DEC|degrees|minutes}} which produces: degrees° minutes′ used thus: 23° 47′.
  • {{RA|hours|minutes}} which produces: hoursh minutesm used thus: 12h 17m.

Other useful templates:


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Categories

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