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I've uploaded the assessment categories intersection table so you guys can more easily assess and rate stuff. The table is transcluded below. Now to update the template... Headbomb {ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 00:50, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
Importance→ Class↓ |
Top | High | Mid | Low | Bottom | NA | ??? | Rated | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FA | 50 | 26 | 57 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 152 | 152 |
FL | 0 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 19 |
GA | 15 | 25 | 82 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 280 | 280 |
B | 63 | 111 | 231 | 206 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 626 | 626 |
C | 93 | 215 | 937 | 1,238 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 2,559 | 2,559 |
Start | 7 | 135 | 1,918 | 12,711 | 168 | 0 | 0 | 15,034 | 15,034 |
Stub | 0 | 0 | 151 | 8,346 | 103 | 0 | 1 | 8,638 | 8,639 |
List | 0 | 15 | 223 | 2,104 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 2,362 | 2,362 |
Template | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 935 | 0 | 947 | 947 |
Category | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4,308 | 0 | 4,326 | 4,326 |
Disambig | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 85 | 0 | 87 | 87 |
File | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 516 | 0 | 518 | 518 |
NA | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 34 | 34 |
Redirect | 0 | 0 | 0 | 117 | 0 | 42,062 | 0 | 42,212 | 42,212 |
Unassessed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Assessed | 229 | 530 | 3,609 | 24,878 | 384 | 48,566 | 1 | 77,788 | 77,789 |
Total | 229 | 530 | 3,609 | 24,878 | 384 | 48,566 | 1 | 77,789 | 77,790 |
I submitted this article for a peer review. You can comment here. Ruslik (talk) 12:57, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
This is a FA article belonging to this project. Michael Kurtz, apparently an author of some of the articles used as source material, contacted me on my talk page and asked me to tag the unreferenced parts of the article. FA articles are currently being reevaluated to see if they continue to maintain FA standards. Hopefully, some editors from this project will update the page and endure that it still meets Featured article criteria. Regards, —Mattisse (Talk) 22:57, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Skygazing if you would like to comment.—RJH (talk) 16:35, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
The code can be seen here User:Headbomb/Sandbox4. For an example of a tagged page with all parameters enabled, see User talk:Headbomb/Sandbox4.
Features:
Recap: Everything is the same, other than astrophysics being turned into a flagging tool rather than a tagging tool, and category intersection support for both WP Astro and WP Astro Objects. It's tested and fully functional. Now should I upload or do you have questions/comments?Headbomb {ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 01:59, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
Well whoever the maintainer of the current template is more than welcome to fix whatever problem there is with the one on my sandbox. He/She also is invited to take a look at {{physics}} since I use that one as the basis for this one.Headbomb {ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 17:23, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Headbomb: I did some experimenting with your code. Inserting a "width: 48px;" parameter to the div code for the left-floating image seems to fix the overlap problem, at least for me. (I didn't actually change your code; just experimented with the preview mode.) I'm speculating that the browser may not be handling the font size properly, so it's not computing the correct width. By forcing a minimum value, it appears to work better. No telling what may happen if a viewer has different font settings though.
Perhaps you have different font or font settings than I, which is why you didn't experience the problem?
BTW, I see the same problem with template:Physics, although I need to shrink my browser width down quite a bit before it occurs.—RJH (talk) 15:17, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
If you check on the main page, there's a bot-update list notifying you about what's going on about articles tagged by {{WPAstronomy}}. If you want to watch the page so notification appear in your watchlist, just go here and click "watch".Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 04:14, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
For those who have an interest, there is a list of requested astronomy articles at Wikipedia:Requested articles/Natural sciences#Astronomy and cosmology. Many have been there for quite a while. Thanks.—RJH (talk) 15:01, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
The article is a featured article candidate now. You can comment here. Ruslik (talk) 16:40, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
Reading this page, Submillimeter continuum observations of Rho Ophiuchi A - The candidate protostar VLA 1623 and prestellar clumps, it states that the arthor created the "Class 0" class on page 16. Needing confirmation on this and then I can update the YSO page. Also, that the term, "extreme Class I" source, I am uncertain if this is a dated term. Thanks, Marasama (talk) 21:25, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
Low-mass stars currently redirects to star formation... this doesn't seem to be the best place to point it, perhaps it could be turned into a dab or a stub (or repointed)? 70.55.86.100 (talk) 09:45, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello, as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force, I have conducted a Good Article reassessment of 4 Vesta. I have a few concerns that should be addressed if the article is to remain listed as a GA. If anyone is able to help out, the reassessment can be found here. Thanks, GaryColemanFan (talk) 18:44, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
I think that High-velocity star, Runaway star, and Hypervelocity star could probably be merged into a combined article about Stellar kinematics. Perhaps Space velocity as well, plus a summary of the connection to radial velocity and proper motion. Any thoughts about this? (Some people seem to get a little perturbed about the word 'kinematics', so I thought I'd ask.) Thanks.—RJH (talk) 16:12, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
I implemented new code for this template based on {{WPBannerMeta}}. Comments are appreciated. Ruslik (talk) 17:42, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
I want to improve this portal but why is this portal named the way it is ? Isn't suppose to be Portal: Agriculture and can we change it ? Bewareofdog 00:39, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Magnetospheric eternally collapsing object has been nominated for deletion at WP:AFD 70.55.86.100 (talk) 09:45, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
Fractal cosmology has been nominated for deletion at AfD. 76.66.192.6 (talk) 05:28, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
Would a list of astronomical objects by angular size be of any interest? I've been compiling it mainly for my own edification. --IanOsgood (talk) 00:19, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
According to [1] the SIMBAD3 query system will be shutdown soon, so references and external links using the SIMBAD3 format will need to be updated with SIMBAD4 conformant URLs. 76.66.193.170 (talk) 12:24, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Just a quick reminder that this article is undergoing a GA reassessment as part of the GA sweeps. It has been on hold for over two weeks, but several concerns remain. If they are not addressed soon, I will have to delist the article. Because it is part of the Main asteroid belt Featured Topic, this would also mean that the Featured Topic would be delisted. There's not much left to do, so any help you can provide would be great. The reassessment page is here. Thanks, GaryColemanFan (talk) 22:49, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Could somebody please independently rate Stellar rotation, Stellar kinematics and Stellar magnetic field with a {{WPAstronomy}} template? I'll try to take care of some of the others under Category:Stellar astronomy. Thank you.—RJH (talk) 18:53, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
De Sitter relativity has been nominated for deletion 76.66.195.63 (talk) 06:54, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
G'day folks. This one is in need of some details in the body of the article and I have tagged it for expert assistance. Thanks. – ukexpat (talk) 20:41, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
Someone needs to examine Symbiotic variable star. It looks like one big copyvio contributed by CarloscomB while editing anonymously 76.66.195.63 (talk) 03:17, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Someone needs to examine Z Andromedae. It looks like one big copyvio contributed by CarloscomB. 76.66.195.63 (talk) 03:20, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
I tried to place everyone in their nationality category, and I'm down to ~15 entries (from ~150) I can't determine. If you know anything about them, please categorize them accordingly.Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 10:59, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
Aproposed deletion template has been added to the article Χ Andromedae, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process.
All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}}
notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.
Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Said: Rursus (☻) 18:58, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
The article 243 Ida is rated low on the importance scale, and I think it should be re-evaluated. According to the new guidelines, an object of low importance includes asteroids which contribute little to the field and are mentioned in few publications. Ida is one of the few asteroids visited by spacecraft and has been the subject of numerous publications. Its exploration has contributed greatly to our understanding of asteroid composition and evolution, and, in particular, to our understanding of the origin of OC meteorites. The Galileo flyby was also the first imaged confirmation of a moon orbiting an asteroid. For these reasons, I think the article deserves another look. Thank you. Wronkiew (talk) 19:03, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Category:Night-Sky Photography has been nominated for merger into Category:Astrophotography 76.66.195.159 (talk) 06:07, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
May I make a redirect page of the article Planetary Database System? The reason is here: Talk:Planetary Database System. Said: Rursus (☻) 16:34, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Does anybody know why Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomy/Importance ratings is no longer linked from {{WPAstronomy}}? Thanks.—RJH (talk) 23:28, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Under the "U" section in Category:Star_types, should this page, User:Pfhreak/Solar_Twin be removed from the list, since it was the template for Solar analog? Thanks, Marasama (talk) 03:05, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
Isaac NewtonatWP:FAR. --Redtigerxyz Talk 15:30, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
As I understand it, the lengths of Earth's day, month, and (I think) year would have been different in the distant past, due primarily to gravitational tidal force and, less importantly, other astronomical effects. As far as I can see, our articles day, month, and year make no mention of this. I am not competent to fix these articles myself - can some knowledgeable person do so? Thanks. -- 201.53.7.16 (talk) 19:04, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Please note my proposal for making a table-row template for lists of solar eclipses, so that they emit hCard microformats. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 13:56, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
2012 says:
"John Major Jenkins has asserted that on this date [21 Dec 2012], there will be "an extremely close conjunction of the northern hemisphere winter solstice sun with the crossing point of the Galactic equator and the ecliptic", an event that will not be repeated for thousands of years."
(Cites for this are the non-scientific sites http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl20.htm and http://www.alignment2012.com/whatisGA.htm )
Is this accurate? If not, we may want to edit this article. -- 201.53.7.16 (talk) 14:32, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
Category:Gamma ray bursts has been proposed to be renamed at WP:CFDtoCategory:Gamma-ray bursts, and appropriate subcategories. 76.66.198.171 (talk) 08:12, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
An anonymous editor made this charge to the Supernova article, with a comment that, "Supernova can not trigger new star formation, there is no evidence of this as SNR can only be 10,000's years old yet YSOs are much older than this." Does this mean that the hypothesis of "Supernova induced star formation" is dead? There seem to be a number of papers on the subject, but they are generally 2-3 decades old. I don't have access to the article the editor is citing, and I can't tell based on the abstract. Does anybody have a suggestion? The original reference from NASA seemed pretty clear on the subject, albeit not very detailed. I hope this isn't a case of PoV pushing. Thank you.—RJH (talk) 17:40, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/HD 40307. Crystal whacker (talk) 23:29, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Solar core has been proposed to be renamed Stellar coreatWP:RM 76.66.198.171 (talk) 05:13, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
A number of articles have a redirect because Ceres is listed as 1 Ceres rather than as Ceres (dwarf planet). As the list and the minor planets navigator runs into potential technical issues, I don't know it it can or should be fixed. I didn't activate it here, but the text to test it in the sandbox is {{MinorPlanets Navigator|1 Ceres||PageName=2 Pallas}}. I have also posted this discussion in the solar system group. Novangelis (talk) 22:17, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
The International Year of Astronomy is a year-long celebration of astronomy, taking place in 2009. The article is currently tagged with template:Refimprove and template:cleanup. Please have a look. We may also want to take a look at improving articles that are related to IYA2009. For example, this is the 400th anniversary of the publication of Astronomia nova. --mikeu talk 18:50, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
...is pretty bleak. Any chance you folks will get to it, or is the occupation under the domain of another project? Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 11:54, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
OH masers was recently turned into a redirect to Hydroxyl radical, after having been a very short stub for quite a while. 76.66.198.171 (talk) 10:32, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
We are preparing gamma-ray burst for featured article candidacy. If anybody would like to help, we need to add a description on the various gamma-ray burst research missions that are not yet covered, such as HETE, and RXTE. See Talk:Gamma-ray burst for pending items. Jehochman Talk 16:07, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
Someone needs to compare and evaluate these two articles. They agree with each other (and Xref each other) as different things, but the See Also reference on Earth-Crossing is now redirected to the other article, confusing the issue. External web-sites and a couple of books tend to use these terms interchangeably, whether rightly or wrongly. Also see the NASA site: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/neo/groups.html , especially their term "PHA", which seems similar to the Wiki Earth-Crossing article ... maybe! PJLareau (talk) 17:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
Macula (planetary geology) has been nominated for deletion at WP:AFD 76.66.196.229 (talk) 07:57, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
here is a place to discuss whether the two pages should be merged. Seems like a good idea but not an expert in the area. If not a good idea, then a few pointers can quickly discuss and archive it. Casliber (talk · contribs) 19:32, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
I'm letting you guys know about it because a lot of what is said there is also relevant for you guys. Plus your feedback would definitely be both relevant and appreciated. Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 04:09, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
There is a page that I think needs expert attention from some astronomy buffs. It only has two sources and is possibly influenced by pseudoscience. It would be interesting to know the actual details here. For instance, it mentions that the sun is aligned with the galactic "equator" in 1998, but the article was tagged that it needed expert advice, so I thought I would bring it to all of your attention.
Thanks.
(Hades12686 (talk) 12:38, 20 February 2009 (UTC))
The article is a featured article candidate now. You can comment here. Ruslik (talk) 18:43, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
On several pages related to astronomy, the astronomer and fiction writer Abdul Ahad is being pushed to the foreground. He has written no (or very few) articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Nor do others (substantially) refer to his work in such journals. An article on him has been deleted by AfD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abdul Ahad. The provided links, used in the accompanying footnotes, are directly or indirectly pointing to a commercial web site promoting also his novels.
Some of the affected articles I know of are:
Input from others is very much appreciated. -- Crowsnest (talk) 02:03, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
There's a few thousand of them, in Category:Main Belt asteroid stubs and the related asteroid stub categories. I think most of them (over 95%) should be deleted because of a lack of wp:Notability. Perhaps this has been discussed before. Debresser (talk) 23:32, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
I disagree. All numbered asteroids are generally notable, because they have received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. There is no reason to delete them. You can see these AFDs:
where arguments based on WP:NOT were rejected. Or this one
The general opinion is that asteroids are natural objects, and as such they are probably inherently notable. They are not songs, people or companies, which can appear or disappear at any time, they have existed for billions years. Ruslik (talk) 08:42, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
Please note that you refer to deletion proposals of lists. That's precisely what was suggested, to put them in a list. The next door guy who ran over the girl from the other next door also got coverage. Still we'll agree that this does not make him notable. If anybody knows where to propose deletion of a few thousand asteroids, I'll lend him my voice. Debresser (talk) 13:14, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
The key word here is "significant". An announcement in a specialized journal of a list of the next 500 odd asteroids located and catalogued is not significant.
Who can tell me where to raise this question? Debresser (talk) 17:11, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
This subject has been extensively discussed, without reaching a useful actionable consensus, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomical objects#main belt asteroids and in Archive 8 ff. Please take note of that large corpus before reworking the same ground here. I think WikiProject Astronomical objects (or a sub-project of that) is the place the discussion needs to be centralized, in any case. Thanks, Wwheaton (talk) 19:56, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
Thank you. I propose continuing the discussion at the place you mentioned. Debresser (talk) 20:59, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
If it's vandalism, it's not obvious vandalism. But these edits changed the meaning and implications of these passage quite a bit. No ref was given by the IP, so I can't establish that these are alright, and no refs are given in the previous version either, so I can't establish they are false either.
Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 16:29, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Two weeks until launch and this article is in pretty poor shape. As it will most certainly make the main page (In the news) it would be nice to see this article improved before that time. Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 09:32, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
Hello. Is the Planetarium article within the scope of this WikiProject? I think it needs some attention - the subject is enough at least for a Good Article, but its current condition is, er, far from stellar. I've cleaned the linkfarm and the gallery, but the rest should be done by someone whose Engilsh is better than mine. Thank you. --Daggerstab (talk) 21:42, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
I just came across an interesting topic, Maunder's "butterfly" diagrams, which doesn't seem to have a Wikipedia article, although butterfly diagrams are mentioned in Solar cycle. See, for example:
It certainly seems encyclopedic, as it apparently revolutionized our understanding of the sun, and has been the subject of numerous articles that could be used as references.
Just thought I'd point it out in case anyone is itching to write an article.
—Steven G. Johnson (talk) 02:16, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
I recently made an edit to asteroid belt and I did not realize astronomy had a convention to show only metric units. I'm sorry for making a change against the agreed style. I found the distances hard to visualize without the conversions and WP:MOSNUM has a conversion example using the Earth and the Moon. I will abide by the astronomy consensus to not convert, but should the example on MOSNUM be changed to one in a different field of study? —Ost (talk) 13:29, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.
All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. — Delievered by §hepBot (Disable) on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 04:49, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
I think it would be helpful to have an easy to find bit of code for the Project Banner on the main project page. When I drop by an unfamiliar project, that's often the one thing I'm looking for. -GTBacchus(talk) 00:28, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
{{WPAstronomy|class=|importance=|object=}}
on the main page?
I was doing some research to boost the article on NGC 2440 and came upon some confusing figures. An article in Astronomy magazine says that the central star of NGC 2440 lies about 7,100 light years from Earth (I own a copy of the magazine, and I cited it in NGC 2440). Yet a section of HubbleSite says that the nebula lies about 4,000 light years from Earth. Which is which? Micasta (talk) 02:11, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Amazing! Thank you! :) Micasta (talk) 10:49, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
According to Wikipedia:Featured articles/Cleanup listing, the article Mars is in need of cleanup. Hopefully, editors will get on it right away, or the article should be submitted to WP:FAR for review. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:55, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
Category:Astronomical historians has been nominated for renaming to Category:Historians of astronomy. 76.66.193.90 (talk) 06:49, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
I was curious about which Astronomy articles get the most page views. Falsikon's overview lists the top ten (for November at the moment). I also submitted this request here (needs Google account) for Mr.Z-man's article popularity bot to run on this project. I do not know if this has been done before here, or whether it is even wanted, but if the bot runs I guess the results should appear in Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomy/Popular pages (when the redlink turns blue). For an existing example see Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Popular pages. A list of other projects that have had Popular pages added by Mr.Z-bot can be searched for here (search for "popularity"). Would a link to the top ten list be useful at the project page, somewhere need the assessments table maybe? 84user (talk) 16:58, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Yes. I have just made these requests:
Meanwhile Zman has responded here to say that Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomy/Popular pages is added to the list and will start with January. I guess that means sometime in February Mr.Z-bot will put January's pageview results in that redlinked page. If I have understood Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects (WP AO) classification correctly, each WP AO article's Talk page should already have Template:WPAstronomy as the banner, and therefore it should get included in the Astronomy Popular pages. But I see some articles in Wikipedia:WikiProject Solar System use {{WPSS}} and others, like Talk:Solar System, use {{WPSpace}}. I have asked Zman whether I have given sufficient information in my requests and whether it matters that some articles have more than one project banner. 84user (talk) 00:00, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
Did anyone notice Category:Astronomical objects by year of discovery and subcategories? Are we going to use this categorization scheme? 76.66.193.90 (talk) 12:24, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Some people might want to look over wikt:Appendix:Astronomical terms. 76.66.201.179 (talk) 13:19, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
See this discussion at WT:ASTRO#Twin Quasar about a recent renaming and revision to the notation format used in the article. 76.66.201.179 (talk) 06:34, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
Just wanted to point out that many of the articles in Category:Stars in fiction seem to be lists of trivia. If interested, members of this project may want to try integrating usable content into main articles. Ham Pastrami (talk) 06:25, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
This article has passed the GA review, but it has not received an importance assessment from this project. Can someone take a look at it? Wronkiew (talk) 05:30, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
Galactic orientation has been prodded for deletion. 76.66.201.179 (talk) 06:12, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
In the article S Doradus its radius is given as 390solar radii, but in List of largest known stars it is 550solar radii, but in this image File:Star-sizes.jpg it is even bigger than Betelgeuse. Charvest (talk) 11:49, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps someone can persuade User:Hrafn that his/her repeated gutting of this article is unhelpful. I don't have time to attempt to deal with it right now, but the article cannot be left in the state this user apparently prefers. False vacuum (talk) 08:33, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
ishere. The idea is that price inflation is not obviously of greatly vaster significance than cosmic inflation, which incidentally is usually called plain "inflation". False vacuum (talk) 05:58, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
Formation and evolution of black holes and Properties and features of black holes have been proposed for deletion. 76.66.193.69 (talk) 05:42, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
People may be interested to know that the Vote on date autoformatting and linking is now open. All users are invited to participate. Lightmouse (talk) 15:27, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Traditional Chinese star names has been nominated for deletion. 76.66.193.69 (talk) 11:37, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Neutrino Array Radio Calibration has been nominated for deletion. 70.29.213.241 (talk) 07:07, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
I've just noticed that there are a huge number of identified stars that do not have articles, or even lists devoted to them. The Henry Draper Catalogue includes 359,083 different stars. The Tycho-2 Catalogue contains 2,539,913 different stars. We should at least have a list of them, if not an individual article for each one. Obviously, we would need a bot to do most of the work and I have no idea how to go about creating one. If anyone does have the technical know-how, I think this could be a great project. Just an idea.--Cdogsimmons (talk) 00:27, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
1- 4 I4 --- TYC1 [2,9529]+= TYC1 from TYC (1) 6- 10 I5 --- TYC2 [1,12112] TYC2 from TYC (1) 12 I1 --- TYC3 [1,4] TYC3 from TYC (1) 14 A1 --- flag [HT] data from Hipparcos or Tycho-1 (2) 16- 27 F12.8 deg RAdeg Right Asc, ICRS, at epoch=J1991.25 29- 40 F12.8 deg DEdeg Decl, ICRS, at epoch=J1991.25 42- 48 F7.1 mas/yr pmRA []? Proper motion in RA*cos(dec) 50- 56 F7.1 mas/yr pmDE []? Proper motion in Dec 58- 62 F5.1 mas e_RAdeg s.e. RA*cos(dec) 64- 68 F5.1 mas e_DEdeg s.e. of Dec 70- 74 F5.1 mas/yr e_pmRA []? s.e. prop mot in RA * cos(dec) 76- 80 F5.1 mas/yr e_pmDE []? s.e. of proper motion in Dec 82 A1 --- mflag [ BVH] Note about Tycho magnitudes (3) 84- 89 F6.3 mag BTmag []? Tycho-1 BT magnitude (4) 91- 95 F5.3 mag e_BTmag []? s.e. of BT (4) 97-102 F6.3 mag VTmag []? Tycho-1 VT or Hp magnitude (4) 104-108 F5.3 mag e_VTmag []? s.e. of VT (4) 110-112 I3 0.1arcsec prox [1,999] proximity indicator (5) 114 A1 --- TYC [T] Tycho-1 star 116-121 I6 --- HIP [1,120404]? Hipparcos number 122 A1 --- CCDM CCDM component identifier for HIP stars
FWIW, we're also missing a List of IC objects for the Index Catalogue, as a counterpart for the List of NGC objects. 76.66.193.90 (talk) 08:54, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Also, we don't have a List of HR objects to go with Bright Star Catalogue (and no Category:HR objects) 76.66.193.69 (talk) 12:35, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps a List of HIP objects should go along with the category ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:HIP objects 76.66.193.69 (talk) 04:25, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated Comet for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.Cirt (talk) 12:14, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Here are the astronomy article requests that are more than two years old:
Thanks.—RJH (talk) 22:39, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
I ran across a few astronomical pages (asteroids, mostly) in the category category:Pages needing an infobox conversion and it seems to me it would be fairly easy to create a generic infobox template for these things. certainly for solar orbital objects, and possibly extended to stellar objects as well. I'm no physicist, though (just a bright social scientist) so I'll probably get something wrong if I go at it blithely. I'll make a quick draft given what I can see on these pages (maybe twenty minutes work, that), but if someone with an actual astronomical brain could point out where I screw up or miss imprtant details, I'd be obliged. --Ludwigs2 05:48, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Solar system basic has been nominated for deletion, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Solar system basic. Note that the creator of this article has recently created a sandbox article User:HarryAlffa/Solar System synopsis that he categorized into article categories, so I expect the article to be recreated if deleted... 76.66.196.218 (talk) 13:52, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
There is an active discussion on rewriting the lead section of Solar System, as Solar System is a featured article, more participants might be a good idea. See Talk:Solar System and Wikipedia:Featured article review/Solar System/archive1 76.66.196.218 (talk) 14:01, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
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Apologies for the notice, but this is being posted to every WikiProject to avoid accusations of systemic bias. Hiding T 13:27, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
I created this infobox for the articles about planetary magnetospheres (currently used in two articles). Comments and suggestions are appreciated. Ruslik (talk) 12:20, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
I nominated this article for peer review. You can leave your comments here. Ruslik (talk) 19:46, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
It looks like there is a bot called "CommonsDelinker" that is deleting all of the Chandra images because "Only non commercial use is allowed: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html." Unfortunately this bot is not doing a very good job and is leaving remnants behind (for example here). You may want to check the pages where you see that bot in your watchlist.—RJH (talk) 14:58, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Template talk:Planetbox image has a proposal for using artist conception images in Planetbox. I linked to earlier discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomy/Image Review, which was announced in 2007 and to Talk:Gliese 581 c#GA Review. 84user (talk) 18:04, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Please check this, I'm an amateur astronomer and don't know nuclear physics. I'm not a physicist butI am a social scientist and I know how often prejudice has prevented or delayed the solution of a problem. One example that physicist know is when physicists in the second half of the 19th Century didn't understand radioactive decay because they believed that transmutation of elements was impossible. If the earliest red dwarf stars have heavy elements clearly heavy elements were synthesized before they were formed. I can only think of two possibilities,
Experts please look at this it could be important. Proxima Centauri 2 (talk) 16:01, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Does your project care about what happens to the talk pages of articles that have been replaced with redirects? If so, please provide your input at User:Mikaey/Request for Input/ListasBot 3. Thanks, Matt (talk) 01:32, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi there. The article for Trifid mentions is distance from Earth to be between 2000-9000 ly, while reliable sources such as the NASA/Spitzer database (http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2005-02/ssc2005-02a.shtml) puts it accurately at 5400 ly. Should it be edited? 212.44.19.206 (talk) 13:22, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
File:I screenimage 30579.jpg has been nominated for deletion, as an ESA copyrighted image being replaceable. 76.66.202.139 (talk) 05:14, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
File:X3solarflare.gif has been nominated for deletion, as an ESA copyrighted image being replaceable. 76.66.202.139 (talk) 05:14, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
File:Solarflareanimation.gif has been nominated for deletion, as an ESA copyrighted image being replaceable. 76.66.202.139 (talk) 05:14, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Hallo there! I inform you that we have obtained an OTRS ticket for all the images available on this italian site: hundreds and hundreds of high-quality images. Follows here the OTRS ticket, anyone who have OTRS access can confirm it.
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You can upload the images only on Wikipedia, on Commons they are not allowed. Enjoy. --Roberto Segnali all'Indiano 05:28, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps it's just me, but it seems as if the information regarding the early evolution of stars (from a contracting cloud to zero age main sequence) is somewhat lacking an overarching organization. We have these articles: Protostar, T Tauri star, Pre-main sequence star, FU Orionis star, Herbig Ae/Be star, Hayashi track, Henyey track, Bok globule, Star formation, Young stellar object and Hayashi limit. What should be the top level article for these articles? Should they be consolidated and reorganized? Thank you.—RJH (talk) 16:50, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
This message is being sent to WikiProjects with GAs under their scope. Since August 2007, WikiProject Good Articles has been participating in GA sweeps. The process helps to ensure that articles that have passed a nomination before that date meet the GA criteria. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. Instead of reviewing by topic, editors can consider picking and choosing whichever articles they are interested in.
We are always looking for new members to assist with reviewing the remaining articles, and since this project has GAs under its scope, it would be beneficial if any of its members could review a few articles (perhaps your project's articles). Your project's members are likely to be more knowledgeable about your topic GAs then an outside reviewer. As a result, reviewing your project's articles would improve the quality of the review in ensuring that the article meets your project's concerns on sourcing, content, and guidelines. However, members can also review any other article in the worklist to ensure it meets the GA criteria.
If any members are interested, please visit the GA sweeps page for further details and instructions in initiating a review. If you'd like to join the process, please add your name to the running total page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles from the worklist or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. With ~1,300 articles left to review, we would appreciate any editors that could contribute in helping to uphold the quality of GAs. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 22:16, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
I inform you that we have obtained an OTRS ticket for all the images available on The STScI Digitized Sky Survey, POSS2: all b/w sky survey is available for us. Images are only for no-commercial purposes.
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You can upload the images only on Wikipedia, on Commons they are not allowed. Enjoy. --Roberto Segnali all'Indiano 16:56, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Talk:SN_1572#Tycho's Nova Decision - May 15, 2009 on how best to incorporate subject matter from The Urantia Book pertaining to Tycho's Nova into wikipedia. I am also posting this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Religious texts#Urantia Book on Tycho's Nova. 84user (talk) 00:41, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
Have editors over in this area of Wikipedia had the inclination to review the material referenced above? --Joe DiMaggio, Jacksonville, Florida (talk) 16:23, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
Category:Images of moons and Category:Lunar images (images of The Moon) have been nominated for deletion at WP:CFD on May 23. 70.29.208.129 (talk) 04:05, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
Category:European Space Agency images and Category:ESA multimedia gallery images have been nominated for deletion at WP:CFD. As I understand it, ESA images are not eligible for Commons... 70.29.208.129 (talk) 04:05, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi all. I'm slowly moving freely licensed images from Category:Astronomy images onto Commons; help moving them would be much appreciated (commonshelper is good for moving them). If you're aware of any of the licenses being incorrect (e.g. images under CC-BY-SA that shouldn't be), the please let me know / fix them. I'm especially worried about images from Wikisky... Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 10:53, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
I've just come across commons:Commons:Deletion requests/All DSS2 Images from wikisky, which might be of interest to people here. Mike Peel (talk) 10:11, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
Grateful for some expert input at this article. Landed little marsdon (talk) 20:29, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
A 9x expansion of the optics article has been undertaken by ScienceApologist. Assistance welcomed to help raise it to featured article level. Best wishes all, DurovaCharge! 22:44, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
File:Space Barnstar Idea 1.png has been nominated for deletion. 70.29.208.129 (talk) 05:13, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
The 'Bottom' importance rating has been added to {{WPAstronomy}} and the category Category:Bottom-importance Astronomy articles has been established. I populated it with a few articles. Please add some more if you know of suitable pages.—RJH (talk) 23:31, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
I want to propose that there be a set of notability requirements, at Wikipedia, for non fiction books, in the popular science category. I can't speak for other disciplines, but non-fiction science rates some sort of notability category. For example, who is going to make a dramatic feature film based on popularized non fiction physics books. And, these science books are probably not going to end up in a literature course at a university. There is no plot to summarize, and is not likely to win a major literary award, etc., etc. I am surprised that this has not been brought up before. The current notablility guidelines are stacked against these types of books. On that note - if anyone has any ideas about what these proposed notablility guidelines should be, I am open to suggestions, so I can present with something in hand. Feel free to leave suggestions at my talk page. Ti-30X (talk) 04:44, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy. Please share your thoughts on the matter at this article's entry on the Articles for deletion page at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Physics of the Impossible. Thanks. Ti-30X (talk) 04:52, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
Though this problem is admittedly very minor, it seems to be inherent to the Wikipedia article for each of the 110 Messier objects, and I could find no way to solve it. On every article for each of the 110 Messier objects (110 articles in all), the line under the title of the article "strikes through" (as so) the coordinates of the corresponding object. (For example, in Wikipedia's article entitled "Crab Nebula" [M1], the line under the title "Crab Nebula" and above "A featured article from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" strikes through (overlaps) the object's coordinates to the right. This same problem can be found for all of the Messier objects (I checked a few random ones, all of which had this problem, and extrapolated that all 110 articles had the same problem).
Even worse, I could find no way to solve the problem. I identified the code for inputting the coordinates, which, for the Crap Nebula, for example, appears near the bottom of the edit page (below the "external links" section and above the categories section) although the coordinates appear at the top of the article itself. The code is immediately below {{Messier objects}} and is
{{Sky|5|34|31.97|+|22|00|52.1|6500}}.
However, I could find no modification to this code that solves the problem (for example, trying to put a line break before the code in order to put some vertical space between the title line and the coordinates makes the coordinates disappear completely).
With my mild knowledge of programming, it seems that the code, itself, could be modified in one shot, correcting the problem in all 110 articles rather than going about correcting each one separately. However, I do not believe I am qualified to do this and believe that someone with more knowledge of Wikipedia and the Astronomy portal or WikiProject could solve the problem with much more success than I.
--Some Old Man (talk) 03:58, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
Interesting; I very much appreciate these responses. The problem appears, for me, using Internet Explorer 7 and the default monobook skin. I plan to bring this issue up on Template talk:Sky as RJHall proposed or with the makers of the facebook skins, but with the added conditions brough up by Spacepotato. I realize a similar issue might be present in many other pages, accross all of facebook, if it is dependent on the skin type and browerser type, especially since I notice the problem using the default skin (but with Internet Explorer 7). Hence, I will keep the issue warm. Again, thank you both!
--Some Old Man (talk) 21:51, 8 June 2009 (UTC)