Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Space exploration
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[edit] Assessment
so, as per Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Using the bot, i've set up Category:Space exploration articles by quality and Category:Space exploration articles by importance. Template still to come.. Mlm42 16:18, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
now there is a banner at {{WP Space exploration}}. Mlm42 17:03, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Spacecraft propulsion listed for FAR
Hi, I'm not entirely sure this is the place to post this, but this message is to inform any and all interested parties that Spacecraft propulsion has been listed for Featured article review. Please feel free to either improve the article directly (the reason for review is the complete absence of references) or comment on the review itself. Thanks! -Fsotrain09 03:34, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 23:31, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Glynn Lunney FAC
Just a note to say that I have nominated the article on Glynn Lunney as a featured article candidate. I would welcome comments and suggestions from anyone associated with this project, or anyone who has an interest in articles on space history. MLilburne 11:40, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Olympus Mons
Hello, I just nominated the Olympus Mons article for the Article Creation and Improvement Drive because I think that that article deserves to be class A. I thought this nomination might be of some interest to you all. Thanks! S.dedalus 06:41, 18 November 2006 (UTC
[edit] STS-51-L
I'd like to propose the addition of the STS-51-L article to the Article Creation and Improvement Drive. It's a fairly new article that could do with a lot of expansion, particularly in the areas of the background and lead-up to the accident, the mission objectives, along with various aspects of the mission's objectives & crew that don't fit into the disaster page. What do we think? Colds7ream 22:23, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 16:52, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Project Constellation
Hello all, I just added myself to the member list of this project and wanted to say hello. I've been working on the Ares I article and plan to go through and work on a number of the other Project Constellation related articles. Since these are all related to space exploration, they need to be better integrated into the space exploration wikiproject page. I've also noticed that there are a lot of space exploration related articles that don't say they are a part of this wikiproject, so when I find them I'll tag them as part of this project. Grant 18:23, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Number of flights
I have a major issue with the edits of User:Jamesbondfan, and I would like to check about it. He/she seems to consider that when an astronaut launches on one Shuttle, is in an ISS expedition and lands on another Shuttle flight it counts for three flights in the digit between brackets on the crew tables in the mission page. We have therefore had conflicting edits on Expedition 14. What do you think. Hektor 09:00, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
- I've always thought of that as only one flight, and I believe that's the commonly accepted definition. MLilburne 11:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] MSC
Hello. Just in case I goofed thought I should say here that I rated Jeannette Piccard, a spokesperson for MSC during Project Apollo, and gave it Low importance. Also uploaded a photo for Robert R. Gilruth because someone had rated that article High importance. Hope this helps. Best wishes for your project. -Susanlesch 14:16, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Category:Space Launches by Month/Year
Tdrss (talk • contribs) has made this category with articles in it but I don't think there'd be many space launches in any one month for there to be a point in having seperate articles. Can someone handle this? Thanks! --WikiSlasher 02:23, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
- This is already being attempted in Timeline of spaceflight 131.111.8.103 09:53, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] new article
Would members of this project take a look at Independent evidence for human Moon landings? Bubba73 (talk), 22:26, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] ATS
I have started an article on the Applications Technology Satellites. Please help in expanding the article. Regards, Aksi_great (talk) 14:53, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Conversion templates
Hello! This is to announce that several templates for automatic convertion between metric and imperial units and for displaying consistently formatted output have been created: {{km to mi}}, {{mi to km}}, {{m to ft}}, {{ft to m}}, {{km2 to mi2}}, {{mi2 to km2}}, {{m2 to ft2}}, and {{ft2 to m2}}. Hopefully, they will be useful to the participants of this WikiProject. The templates are all documented, provide parameters to fine-tune the output, and can be substituted if necessary.
Any suggestions, requests for improvement/features, or bug reports are welcome.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 17:14, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
- I did a bit of testing here and as you can see sometimes new lines are started when they shouldn't. --WikiSlasher 07:46, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
- That's because <includeonly> and <noinclude> tags must immediately follow one another. When you "noincluded" the see also section added by another user, you inserted a line break, which shows when the template is trancluded. I'll have that fixed. Thanks.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:20, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] launch window
I added Launch window as an article within the scope of this project. It's currently mostly a stub. Any suggestions on where to find good references to expand this topic? Sdsds 20:35, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] WP Space exploration banner
It has been suggested here that the banner {{WPAstronomy}} be merged with {{WPSS}} and {{WP Space exploration}} into a hypothetical {{WPSpace}} banner. This would take a good amount of work, that i'm willing to take on (with help, hopefully!). Comments welcome here. Mlm42 09:36, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
- Right, so hopefully i didn't just break everything, but i believe i've replaced the {{WP Space exploration}} banner with {{WPSpace}}.. if there are any requests about how the banner should look, let me know.. i just threw this one together. Mlm42 01:15, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Potential New Projects
Hey guys, you may be interested in helping expand articles concerning the Soviet Zond program, Mars probe program and the Marsnik program (even though the last is better written). The Zond program though is severely underrepresented at present.
[edit] scope of project
Can we put together a better paragraph for the "scope" section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Space exploration? I propose:
- The scope of this project includes articles on the history of space exploration, the science and technology used for space exploration, and to a lesser extent the motivations for and politics of space exploration programs. However, not all spaceflight is exploration per se. For example, modern telecommunications satellites are outside the scope of this project. The project does however follow the example of NASA and include all human spaceflight as exploration, even commercial space tourism.
Comments? Improvements? Alternatives? Sdsds 23:18, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Peer Review of Shuttle-Mir Program
Hi there everyone - just to let you know that i've put the Shuttle-Mir Program up for peer review, and would very much appreciate any comments anyone would like to make. Colds7ream 16:47, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
