Talk:Challenger Center for Space Science Education

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[edit] COI, POV, COPYVIO, REFERENCES

I feel that the subject of the article is appropriate for Wikipedia, but the present article needs a complete rewrite to avoid getting a deletion nomination, It appears to be in many sections copied from [1], which would be a copyright violation. It needs to gain a neutral point of view and to avoid sounding like an advertisement. I remove some obvious conflict of interest markers such as when it said "Our vision" etc. Text such as "the seven brave astronauts who are now in that shuttle on the way to being embedded into the heavens,and not forgotten in our hearts, especially when we look up into the night sky," might work in a funeral oration but are completely inappropriate in an encyclopedia, so I cleaned it up. The subject of the article seems a fine one, but the article is way too spammy and would benefit from a complete rewrite into an objective article, by someone who is a more talented writer than I am. If those working on the article have any references from independent sources, those are badly needed. To satisfy Wikipedia's notability standard, there needs to be coverage in multiple independent and reliable sources. The various external links are to websites which are not independent. Newspaper and magazine articles would help, especially if they are more than reprinted press releases (such as routine "Janie Jones from Thisville attended the Challenger Center"). For references to use, see Google News Archive [2]. Many of the articles require a subscription to view the full text, but many libraries allow online access. Some of the articles, such as from the New York Times [3], [4] , CNN [5] , and the San Francisco Chronicle [6] are viewable online. Behind paywall are many other articles in the LA Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, etc. Edison (talk) 13:31, 23 May 2008 (UTC)