Talk:Space shuttle thermal protection system

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On 17 Feb 2005, this page was nominated for deletion. Several suggestions were made to improve this article either through renaming, redirecting or rewriting. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thermal Protection System for a record of the debate. Further discussions should occur here.

As discussed in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thermal Protection System, the Atmospheric reentry article is already over the Wikipedia recommended size limit. Adding yet more info would further exceed this.
I'd recommend:
  • Rename the current Thermal protection system article to "Space Shuttle Thermal Protection System"
  • Extract the TPS info from the Atmospheric Reentry article to a separate article called "Thermal Protection System". Put a small TPS summary section in Atmospheric Reentry article which points to new TPS article for more info. This is line with Wikipedia:How to break up a page.
  • Put top links in the TPS and Space Shuttle TPS article to each other.
Benefits of doing this:
  • Keeps Atmospheric Reentry article under the recommended size limit
  • Fixes the poor name for the current TPS article
  • Creates article & titles people most likely search for
  • Avoids going through a disambig page for most common searches
  • Provides a quick & obvious way to reach the related article via top links. Joema 14:20, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

As discussed above, if there are no further objections I'll rename this article "Space Shuttle Thermal Protection System", and update the links in all referencing articles to point directly to the new title. This should free up the original title if needed for a general purpose TPS article. Joema 00:58, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

I agree. This article should be Space Shuttle specific.-Astrowikizhang 17:13, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
As previously discussed above, renamed this article to "Space shuttle thermal protection system". I'll fix up all pointers to "Thermal Protection System", so that title should become available for a generic TPS article (non-shuttle-specific). Joema 13:58, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
All links formerly pointing to "Thermal Protection System" now point to "Space shuttle thermal protection system". Joema 14:28, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Revisions and additions

I'm making some revisions and additions to this article. Any comments or questions, please discuss here. Joema 15:11, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

I’m working on some drawings for this article. I will replace the NASA image of the Space Shuttle diagram for a better one, and I will also upload the translated version of a drawing I created for the Spanish version. All this, plus some references and bibliography, in a couple of days. Luis María Benítez 23:12, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Well, the tile drawing was added, but I still have to upload 2 more: a thermogram of heat impact on the Shuttle’s surfaces and other showing the tiles’ locations. I’m slowly working on this. Luis María Benítez 15:36, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
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