User talk:Jamesbondfan

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[edit] Number of flights of astronauts

  • Could you please stop from editing the number of flights of astronauts with wrong data ? where did you take that the current flight of Sunita Williams is not her first mission for instance ? when did she fly previously ? Hektor 06:29, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Capital letters

Please note that not every word of every sentence needs to start with a capital letter, and in fact it is wrong to do so. It detracts from Wikipedia. Chris the speller 02:58, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summary

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Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. --Plek 20:26, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Future missions and astronaut infobox

Please don't add future missions to the astronaut infobox. Since flight schedules can change, the infobox listing should be reserved for flights actually flown. Flights the person is scheduled to be on can be described in the body of the article. For example, while Clayton Anderson is scheduled to return on STS-120, things can change and he could come back on a different flight. Until he actually joins the STS-120 crew and it undocks from the ISS, it shouldn't be in the infobox. Rillian 13:53, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: STS-120

Yes, i did change it back. As my edit summary said: "we shouldn't require a "legenda" in order to read the article. preserve some of this in comments, perhaps someone has an idea to represent it better." --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 00:41, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

I corrected mission specialist 1 vs. #2. For the rest remember that the article should be readable by 10 year olds if needed. Having a list with acronyms like you were using is simply not appropriate in a encyclopedic article. I advice you to read trough some of the Wikipedia:Manual of Style guidelines and the guidelines on space missions. If I change something, then I do that for a reason. In your case it was that it was making the article less readable then acceptable. If your changes are correct and wouldn't have made the article overly complicated then I wouldn't have changed it back. --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 00:57, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello Jamesbondfan, I've reverted your changing the time format in the STS-120 infobox, because WikiProject Human Spaceflight has discussed this issue extensively, and the consensus and decision was: "Times in the infobox should be in 24-hour UTC.", but when appropriate, in the article space, we can put local time in parentheses. If you'd like to see the discussion, you can find it here. Hope that helps explain why I reverted your changes! Ariel♥Gold 21:01, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] STS-122

Hello again Jamesbondfan, I've restored the previous version of the above page, because you have removed valid, informative sources from the article, and you've changed things like "Commander" to "CDR" which is not proper per the manual of style, and per the WikiProject Space Missions design. This was also mentioned above by TheDJ, when done to STS-120. The articles here need to be written in an encyclopedic manner, so that even those unfamiliar with the subject matter will understand what is written. I hope you do not take offense, but the format is done for all missions, and the crew notes section is not for explaining what a "CDR" is, but rather giving information on original crew assigned, and other items of note. Thanks! Ariel♥Gold 22:41, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

I put the crew in order, and again removed your edits that removed the spelling out of Commander and Pilot, and Mission Specialist, per the manual of style and the Project's guidelines. Please don't continue to add a "key", acronyms are not done like this, I really would encourage you to review the manual of style which explains the proper use of acronyms, and why things should be spelled out, as mentioned by myself, and TheDJ above, the average reader needs to be able to read this and not have to consult some key to decipher the article's content. As for who is doing the EVAs, that will be in the EVA table once the mission begins. WikiProject Space has a layout guide and guidelines for these pages, and I'd also encourage you to review those as well. Thanks, Ariel♥Gold 01:18, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Is there a reason

that you have copied the bio for Mark Polansky to Douglas G. Hurley? -MBK004 06:47, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm going to revert it because people searching for Douglas Hurley don't want to read the bio of Mark Polansky. If your intention is to expand the article, please let me know and I'll let you know how to set up a sandbox in your userspace to develop the article. -MBK004 06:50, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
My apologies, I just read the edit more-in depth and saw that you just coped the infobox. Sorry...-MBK004 06:52, 9 March 2008 (UTC)