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The article really needs to have a section added to it about ring occultation studies and the discovery of the ring system by Eliot, Dunham, and Mink. I realize that this is in the main "Uranus" article, but it would be good to add it here for completeness. If I have time soon, I'll copy it over myself.
-- The Astrogeek 19:37, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
I agree. There isn't enough info to have separate articles for each ring. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kwamikagami ( talk • contribs) 02:43, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
This article contains a mixture of British and American English. I was wondering which should be adopted as standard here. Serendi pod ous 16:41, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
And to pre-empt some garbage that the UK-crowd often tries to employ, the spelling “metre” is not the *official* BIPM spelling. The French spelling the BIPM uses is mètre. When they, like many Europeans, translate to English they translate to British/International English and it is spelled metre. In the US, it is not only practice to spell it “meter”, it officially is spelled meter. This is not an issue of *the proper SI spelling is metre*—it is strictly an issue of dialect. Arguments that it should be spelled metre are no more valid than suggesting that the *official* spelling is “realise” and “colour”.
If you want to revert my edits, you must first show how the first major contributors had not used American-dialect English, and how there was a strong national tie between the planet Uranus and its exploration to the UK or Australia. Greg L ( talk) 17:27, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
Now, argue away the facts as I understand them or change MOS guidelines. But don’t ignore what I wrote above, avoid addressing the issues, insist upon flouting writing guidelines regarding dialect, and flout policies on editwarring as well. Greg L ( talk) 19:29, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
If an article has evolved using predominantly one variety, the whole article should conform to that variety, unless there are reasons for changing it based on strong national ties to the topic. In the early stages of writing an article, the variety chosen by the first major contributor to the article should be used, unless there is reason to change it based on strong national ties to the topic. Where an article that is not a stub shows no signs of which variety it is written in, the first person to make an edit that disambiguates the variety is equivalent to the first major contributor.
I mean, seriously, the rings of your anus; unfortunately this article is just asking for vandalism. How many childish vandalisms are we gonna get for this featured article?-- J. F. Mam J. Jason Dee ( talk) 00:58, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
What is "exosphere—corona"? If this is a technical term I would expect use of a hyphen or endash rather than an emdash. If this is just a sentence construction, it's ungrammatical in "The relative lack of dust in the ring system is due to aerodynamic drag from the extended Uranian exosphere—corona." 24.177.121.141 ( talk) 14:45, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
So... could somebody link the Greek letters used here (and likely a lot of other places) to the names of the letters? It's been a long time since I knew the entire Greek alphabet. I recognize most of them, but I'm sure there are people who might need help with some. 75.70.238.244 ( talk) 00:09, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
Should there be a mention of the slang meaning of Rings of Your Anus or should it have its own article? Mwahcysl ( talk) 20:01, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
Article on Hershel's discovery mentions the epsilon ring, not nu ring, as the one that matches his description. It's also the brightest and densest one, so if he saw anything, it was rather ε than ν. Even Voyager 2 didn't found that one.
I am wondering about the question marks in the List of properties. Those they mean that science as of now does not know the answers, or does it mean that the author of this article has not searched for a source, i.e. that section are still a work in progress? Sincerely, Jopparn ( talk) 09:55, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
I'm curious about this. It has been suggested elsewhere on Wikipedia, though strangely there is nothing on the Portia page itself. 8.40.151.110 ( talk) 02:08, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
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- CactiStaccingCrane ( talk) 05:23, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
Anton Petrov has unearthed several new papers on Uranus. Don't have time to do the reasearch myself but here it is. Serendi pod ous 14:27, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
The same day as Elliot et. al discovered the rings of Uranus, J C Bhattacharya and M K Vainu Bappu observed the rings at the Kavalur Observatory during the occulation of SAO 158687, which acted as a confirmation of the observation. This must be included under the discovery section.
BHATTACHARYYA, J., BAPPU, M. Saturn-like ring system around Uranus. Nature 270, 503–506 (1977). [1] https://doi.org/10.1038/270503a0 Thatweirdguy99 ( talk) 11:27, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
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The article really needs to have a section added to it about ring occultation studies and the discovery of the ring system by Eliot, Dunham, and Mink. I realize that this is in the main "Uranus" article, but it would be good to add it here for completeness. If I have time soon, I'll copy it over myself.
-- The Astrogeek 19:37, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
I agree. There isn't enough info to have separate articles for each ring. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kwamikagami ( talk • contribs) 02:43, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
This article contains a mixture of British and American English. I was wondering which should be adopted as standard here. Serendi pod ous 16:41, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
And to pre-empt some garbage that the UK-crowd often tries to employ, the spelling “metre” is not the *official* BIPM spelling. The French spelling the BIPM uses is mètre. When they, like many Europeans, translate to English they translate to British/International English and it is spelled metre. In the US, it is not only practice to spell it “meter”, it officially is spelled meter. This is not an issue of *the proper SI spelling is metre*—it is strictly an issue of dialect. Arguments that it should be spelled metre are no more valid than suggesting that the *official* spelling is “realise” and “colour”.
If you want to revert my edits, you must first show how the first major contributors had not used American-dialect English, and how there was a strong national tie between the planet Uranus and its exploration to the UK or Australia. Greg L ( talk) 17:27, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
Now, argue away the facts as I understand them or change MOS guidelines. But don’t ignore what I wrote above, avoid addressing the issues, insist upon flouting writing guidelines regarding dialect, and flout policies on editwarring as well. Greg L ( talk) 19:29, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
If an article has evolved using predominantly one variety, the whole article should conform to that variety, unless there are reasons for changing it based on strong national ties to the topic. In the early stages of writing an article, the variety chosen by the first major contributor to the article should be used, unless there is reason to change it based on strong national ties to the topic. Where an article that is not a stub shows no signs of which variety it is written in, the first person to make an edit that disambiguates the variety is equivalent to the first major contributor.
I mean, seriously, the rings of your anus; unfortunately this article is just asking for vandalism. How many childish vandalisms are we gonna get for this featured article?-- J. F. Mam J. Jason Dee ( talk) 00:58, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
What is "exosphere—corona"? If this is a technical term I would expect use of a hyphen or endash rather than an emdash. If this is just a sentence construction, it's ungrammatical in "The relative lack of dust in the ring system is due to aerodynamic drag from the extended Uranian exosphere—corona." 24.177.121.141 ( talk) 14:45, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
So... could somebody link the Greek letters used here (and likely a lot of other places) to the names of the letters? It's been a long time since I knew the entire Greek alphabet. I recognize most of them, but I'm sure there are people who might need help with some. 75.70.238.244 ( talk) 00:09, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
Should there be a mention of the slang meaning of Rings of Your Anus or should it have its own article? Mwahcysl ( talk) 20:01, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
Article on Hershel's discovery mentions the epsilon ring, not nu ring, as the one that matches his description. It's also the brightest and densest one, so if he saw anything, it was rather ε than ν. Even Voyager 2 didn't found that one.
I am wondering about the question marks in the List of properties. Those they mean that science as of now does not know the answers, or does it mean that the author of this article has not searched for a source, i.e. that section are still a work in progress? Sincerely, Jopparn ( talk) 09:55, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
I'm curious about this. It has been suggested elsewhere on Wikipedia, though strangely there is nothing on the Portia page itself. 8.40.151.110 ( talk) 02:08, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
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Keeping it here for prosperity.
- CactiStaccingCrane ( talk) 05:23, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
Anton Petrov has unearthed several new papers on Uranus. Don't have time to do the reasearch myself but here it is. Serendi pod ous 14:27, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
The same day as Elliot et. al discovered the rings of Uranus, J C Bhattacharya and M K Vainu Bappu observed the rings at the Kavalur Observatory during the occulation of SAO 158687, which acted as a confirmation of the observation. This must be included under the discovery section.
BHATTACHARYYA, J., BAPPU, M. Saturn-like ring system around Uranus. Nature 270, 503–506 (1977). [1] https://doi.org/10.1038/270503a0 Thatweirdguy99 ( talk) 11:27, 24 March 2024 (UTC)