Wikipedia:WikiProject Moon

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Introduction

The goals of WikiProject Moon are to improve the quality of existing articles related to The Moon, to create articles to cover a broader range of lunar topics, and to categorize and link them in appropriate ways. The result of this work should be articles that are accessible to the lay reader and yet also useful to the professional working in the field. Some articles will be of interest to grade-school students, others only to advanced graduate students and post-docs: all such communities should be served.

Concrete proposals, suggestions and activities should be discussed on the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Moon page, and any and all interested parties are encouraged to participate! If you are an active participant, please let us know who you are by signing your name below.

Please be aware that some of the active participants of this project are practicing professionals. This is stated not to discourage participation: non-professionals and amateurs are vital to keeping the articles comprehensible and readable. Whatever your status, if you feel the need to make an edit, it is always a good idea to discuss this first in the appropriate forum, or at a minimum to add a citation supporting your addition.

The WikiProject Moon is very new, so please consider reading the WikiProject Guide or consult with a more mature project page, such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics, for ideas on how to improve this forum.

Citation guidlines

One manner to ensure that an article will not be modified ad nauseum by those who are not familiar with the subject is to add citations wherever possible. In general, one should attempt to include general citations for the lay reader, as well as citations to the scientific literature when appropriate.

As with any free-form web based project like this, there is the risk that individual scientists will use this as a forum to promote (sometimes shamelessly!) their own research. In order to give the appearance of balance, it is requested that for every paper of your own that you cite, you include two others. If you do not follow this rule, you risk to have your citations removed by the administrators!

How can I help?

• Find pages that interest you, and to add them to your watchlist.
• For pages that interest you, click on "what links here." Oftentimes the information cited on the referring page is wrong!
• Add links to appropriate topics within articles and to the "see all" sections.
• Find topics that need work, and list the deficiencies in the "to do" list.
• Add citations!
• Make some editorial decisions and remove uninformative links.
• Make major organizational changes to articles. No one is in charge here!
• Fix a topic that is on the "to do" list.

Article assessment

Moon articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Class FA 1 1 A GA 1 1 2 B 7 3 12 3 25 Start 1 11 26 8 1 47 Stub 3 18 5 9 35 Unassessed 20 20 Total 9 18 57 16 30 130

Top	Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopaedia
High	Subject contributes a depth of knowledge
Mid	Subject fills in more minor details
Low	Subject is mainly of specialist interest.

To assess the quality and importance of an article, it is only necessary to add information to the project banner at the top of each talk page. As an example

{{WPMoon | class=B | importance=Top}}

will rate the quality of the article as Class-B (according to this grading scheme), and mark it as being of Top importance. Quality can be one of FA (feature article), A, GA (Good article), B, Start, or Stub. Importance (according to this scale) can be one of Top, High, Mid, or Low, which is a relative grading scheme only for articles within the domain of Moon.

• Please note that "Importance" only applies to articles within this WikiProject. A "Low" importance under "Moon" could be a "High" importance under "Space exploration". Importance is unrelated to the quality of the article.

• See Category:WikiProject_Moon_articles for lists of articles by class and importance.

• See the bot-generated daily list of Moon articles categorized by quality and importance here.

Members

Add your name to the list here.

1. Lunokhod - Lunar science, geophysics
2. RJHall - Astronomy, lunar surface features
3. CommanderSoloho-Astronomy, Observing the Moon for amateurs, anything else that may be needed
4. e123

To do

Pages needing attention

• Moon
  • Human understanding of the Moon
    • The Moon in art and literature
• Giant impact hypothesis
  • Constraints the theory must satisfy
  • Quality is currently very low
• Geology of the Moon
  • Description of samples
  • Quality is currently a bit uneven
• Robotic exploration of the Moon
• Future lunar missions
  • Add short description of instrument payloads for each mission.
• Lunar mare
  • surface compoisition
  • description of volcanic features
• KREEP
  • Details concerning composition, Europeum anomaly.
• ALSEP
  • Description of instruments, as well as scientific results
• Lunar laser ranging
• Observing the Moon - Guide for amateur astronomers
  • Needs more people to help with this. Preferably, someone who's been stargazing for a substantial amount of time.

Topics needing to be added

• Lunar samples (description of the various subgroups, Moon rocks is too general)
• Lunar magma ocean
• Interior structure of the Moon
  • The crust of the Moon
  • The mantle of the Moon
  • The core of the Moon
• Lunar seismology
• Lunar terranes (Procellarum KREEP Terrane and Feldspathic Highlands Terrane)
• Economic exploitation of the Moon (Titanium, He3, Hydrogen at poles)
• Categorization of lunar surface features (Does this already exist somewhere?)
• Thermal evolution of the Moon
• Crater counting
• Legal status of the Moon

Human and robotic exploration

While perhaps not the domain of the Moon project, there are several seemingly redundant pages concerning the human and robotic exploration of the Moon, space race, moon landing, lists of spaceprobes, and so on. These are not organized in any clear form.

Project templates

Main pages

What to type	What it makes	Description
{{Moon footer}}	The Moon v • d • e General: Phases of the Moon · Solar eclipse · Lunar eclipse · Orbit of the Moon · Tides · Near and Far sides of the Moon Lunar science: Moon rocks · Geology · Lunar mare · Lunar geologic timescale · Lunar meteorites · KREEP · Giant impact theory Exploration: Exploration of the Moon · Project Apollo · Robotic exploration · Future missions · Lunar colonization See also solar system, natural satellite, and impact craters.	A footer for important pages concerning the Moon.

Project banner

What to type	What it makes	Description
{{WPMoon}}	This article is supported by the Moon WikiProject. This project provides a central approach to Moon-related subjects on Wikipedia. Please participate by editing the article, and help us improve articles to good and 1.0 standards, or visit the wikiproject page for more details. NA This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale. NA This non-article page has been rated as NA-importance on the importance scale.	A banner to be placed on Talk pages, identifying that this topic is managed by the Moon project.

Stubs

What to type	What it makes	Description
{{Moon-stub}}	This article, which relates to the Moon, is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.	General stub for lunar articles.

Userbox

What to type	What it makes	Description
{{User WPMoon}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Moon.	Identify yourself as a member of the Wikipedia Moon project

Infoboxes

{{Planet Infobox/Moon}}