HI I'm
Marx01
Tell me about it and I would like to offer you to be put into my adoption program. Leave a reply as to your decision below this message or
on my talk page! I am especially interested since we seem to share interests! Happy Editing!
Marx01
Tell me about it 02:33, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
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- Great! Since you seem to have some experience on Wikipedia, I would like to know where you think your weaknesses are. That way I can set you up with a program to fit your needs. Also if you have any specific requests (not necessarily for articles [ex. Userpage modification] just ask!
Marx01
Tell me about it 22:42, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
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- I don't feel that I have a large weakness, I'm quite unfamiliar with a lot of the formatting, and have questions about it. I have seen inconsistencies between articles and the MoS, and also had some sets of questions regarding whether the MoS was just a guideline and the differences I saw are okay, or if the inconsistency should be corrected. In addition, I do feel like I need some help in determining reliability/notability; ie, how to determine if it meets those requirements
- Coolio! I'll set you up with a personalized program page for anything you want me to address! YOur First task will be linking (basic I know but it's good practice) and then you should complete the test so I can narrow down some articles for you to work on. Also please reply on my talkpage, because I get back to you faster. I'll have you page set up within an hour!
Marx01
Tell me about it 22:36, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
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Here is your link. Have fun!
Marx01
Tell me about it 22:59, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you for completing that. I will make sure to assign you articles which interest you. Also just want to remind you that (since you are opinionated) to keep a neutral point of view on any articles regarding any of those issues (which I will assign you at times). Do not be angry, upset, or anything like that. I just don't want you to get any warnings (I don't expect you to whether I say this or not, you seem very good in that area). Also I will be "drilling" (not literally) you later on some MOS standards because you asked. And now for something completely different:
I'm a sophomore, so I may not understand the workload you have. In the case that you have too much schoolwork to complete a task, please do not log on! I've unfortunately gotten messed up with that; so I'm just warning you. Although Wikipedia is great, it is not as important as schoolwork. Just a little reminder! Thank you again!
Marx01
Tell me about it 00:13, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
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Since you completed an optional task, I will make you a userbox on anything you want! Just tell me what you want on it and I'll write it for you!
Marx01
Tell me about it 23:47, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
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- I apologize I will give some more info I was in a big hurry and just wanted to give you that to work on. My bad! I'll write more but you can read the help page if you just want to get it done.
Marx01
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I award this barnstar to Matthew Desjardins for his enthusiastic work as an adoptee and for completing things he was not required to do, but which introduced him into some of the advanced workings of the wiki. Good job!
Marx01
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I will need to experiment a bit. I will have it to you by tomorrow.
User:Marx01/Sick
I deleted your addition of the dead link. I've clicked on the link twice since you've added it and have reached the page successfully (and even edited New Hampshire's numbers). You may not have the latest Adobe Reader compatible with the page. Please don't add it again.
CaninePitDog (
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Sorry, I wasn't exactly giving you a warning. I was just making you aware there was something wrong on some part of your end. Not sure why you weren't seeing it. I didn't want there to be some sort of edit clash! Thanks for your interest in the swine flu topics. Not many wish to help and many are abusers.
CaninePitDog (
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Hi - I've added the flag for you. Please review
WP:ROLLBACK and feel free to ask if you need any help.
Pedro :
Chat 20:12, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
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- Thank you very much —
Matthew
Desjardins 20:18, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
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Congratulations on the rollback rights! I remember when I received them... ah so nice a feeling inside... Anyway I will soon be assigning you a task on that ( if you have already completed the last one) Anyway great job! I prefer Huggle personally but Twinkle is good too.
Marx01
Tell me about it 00:45, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
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- Huggle is very confusing at first, but ocne you get the hang of it it is easy to make near 20 page views a minute and 10 reverts (as far as I've ever gotten.) Twinkle is also good. Just use the one you feel the most comfortable with. Also no worries on the task; take your time. Thanks
Marx01
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
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For receiving rollback rights at an 'early age' and immediately using them in all the right ways.
Marx01
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Hi there.
It seems that your revert was correct. Northwest and Delta as airlines have not merged yet so they still need to be listed seperately. Cheers!
Snoozlepet (
talk) 00:55, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks for reverting the 2 bits on vandalism on my user page - it's appreciated! --
PhantomSteve (
Contact Me,
My Contribs) 23:06, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
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Hello! As an member editor of one or more of the Spaceflight, Human spaceflight, Unmanned spaceflight, Timeline of spaceflight or Space colonisation WikiProjects, I'd like to draw to your attention a proposal I have made with regards to the future of the spaceflight-related portals, which can be found at
Portal talk:Spaceflight#Portal merge. I'd very much appreciate any suggestions or feedback you'd be able to offer! Many thanks,
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Hello there! As part of an effort to determine how many active editors are present in the spaceflight-related WikiProjects, I have made some changes to the
list of members of WikiProject Human spaceflight. If you still consider yourself to be an active editor in this project, I would be grateful if you would please edit the list so that your name is not struck out - thus a clearer idea of the critical mass of editors can be determined. Many thanks in advance!
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Hello there! As part of an effort to determine how many active editors are present in the spaceflight-related WikiProjects, changes have been made to the
list of members of WikiProject Spaceflight. If you still consider yourself to be an active editor in this project, it would be appreciated if you would please edit the list so that your name is not struck out - thus a clearer idea of the number of active editors can be determined. Many thanks in advance!
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Hello there! As you may or may not be aware, a
recent discussion on the future of the Space-related WikiProjects has concluded, leading to the abolition of
WP:SPACE and leading to a major reorganisation of
WP:SPACEFLIGHT. It would be much appreciated if you would like to participate in the various ongoing discussions at
the reorganisation page and the
WikiProject Spaceflight talk page. If you are a member of one of WP:SPACEFLIGHT's child projects but not WP:SPACEFLIGHT itself, it would also be very useful if you could please add your name to the member list
here. Many thanks!
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Issue 0, December 2010
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Welcome to The Downlink · Reorganisation of Space WikiProjects · User Activity Checks
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Welcome to The Downlink
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Welcome to
The Downlink, a new monthly newsletter intended to inform members of WikiProject Spaceflight about the latest developments in the project and its articles. Future issues will contain information on issues under discussion, newly featured content, and articles written by members of the project to appear in the newsletter. All members of WikiProject Spaceflight are invited to contribute any content that they would like to see in the newsletter. If you were not aware of being a member of WikiProject Spaceflight, membership of the former Human spaceflight, Unmanned spaceflight, Timeline of spaceflight and Space colonization WikiProjects was merged into WikiProject spaceflight during the reorganisation of the spaceflight projects, for more details, please see below.
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The ongoing
discussion of the future of Space WikiProjects has been making progress.
WikiProject Space was abolished on 5 December 2010, with the Spaceflight, Astronomy and Solar System projects becoming independent of each other. On the same day, an assessment banner, {{
WikiProject Spaceflight}} was created for WikiProject Spaceflight to replace the generic space one which had been used previously. On 9 December, WikiProject Space Colonization was abolished, with its tasks being subsumed into WikiProject Spaceflight. On 12 December, the Human spaceflight and Unmanned spaceflight WikiProjects became task forces of WikiProject Spaceflight, whilst WikiProject Timeline of spaceflight became a working group.
A number of issues are still under discussion:
- Introducing better defined assessment criteria and an A-class review process
- Setting clearer importance criteria for assessing articles
- Establishing a joint task force with the Astronomy and Solar System projects to cover space telescopes and planetary probes
- Defining the roles of projects, taskforces and working groups, and processes for establishing new ones
- Improving the profile and activity of the project
Much of the current discussion is taking place on
the WikiProject Spaceflight talk page, however there is still some discussion on the
original proposal page.
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User Activity Checks
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A series of checks are underway to establish the numbers of users who are still active within WikiProject Spaceflight, its task forces and working group. All usernames on the members lists were struck out, and members were asked to unstrike their own names if they were still an active member of the project. If you wish to do so, and have not already, please unstrike your name from the
master list, plus the lists on any applicable task forces or working groups
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Issue 1, January 2011
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Welcome to The Downlink · Project News · News from Orbit · Article News · Space Stations and the Push for Featured Topics · Salyut 2
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Welcome to The Downlink
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Welcome to the first full issue of
The Downlink, a new monthly newsletter intended to inform members of WikiProject Spaceflight about the latest developments in the project and its articles. Below you will find information about happenings within the project, our recognised content, spaceflight in the news and events needing to be covered in articles. You will also find an editorial about the first concerted effort to develop
featured topics related to spaceflight, and an article in need of your help and improvements.
Project News will provide details of discussions about and changes in the organisation and structure of the project, newly recognised content, and changes in membership. News from Orbit will summarise spaceflight news and upcoming events, and list suggestions for articles in need of updating as a result. Article News will give details of requests for assistance within articles, and discussions regarding content.
All members of WikiProject Spaceflight are invited to contribute any content that they would like to see in the newsletter, and we would particularly welcome the submission of editorials, or an article about an area of spaceflight which you are working on, or particularly interested in. Please see
The Downlink page for more details.
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Project News
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A new working group has been formed. The
space stations working group is expected to work towards creating
Featured topics related to
space stations. It currently has three members.
Discussion within the project is still dominated by the reorganisation proposals. A discussion over the formation and roles of working groups and task forces has led to some clarification regarding working groups, however the roles of the task forces remain vague, and several proposals to abolish them have surfaced. The Human Spaceflight to-do list has been merged into the main project to-do list, with the combined list currently located on the
Tasks page of the
Spaceflight portal.
A discussion regarding opening relations with
the Aerospace biography task force of
Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation was held, but no conclusions were reached. The
Article Alerts bot has resumed operation, and a problem with the information the bot had been delivering was discussed and resolved.
New assessment criteria for importance and quality have been implemented, and refinements continue to be made to the importance scale. The scope of the project was redefined to exclude astronomical objects explicitly. Although A-class criteria have been defined, a review process is yet to be discussed or implemented.
Colds7ream conducted an analysis of open tasks related to the reorganisation which four major issues remain unresolved: Discussion concerning the existence and roles of task forces within the project; recruitment of new editors; updating guidelines and whether the project or the task forces should be responsible for maintaining them; and the continued existence of the
Human spaceflight portal six weeks after consensus was reached to abolish it.
Discussion about the structure of the project is ongoing, with several proposals currently on the table. One proposal calls for the abolition of task forces in favour of increased emphasis on working groups, whilst another calls for the task forces to become a list of topics. The idea of a formal collaboration system has been suggested, however opposition has been raised.
One of the main open tasks at the moment is replacing the older {{
WikiProject Space}} and {{
WikiProject Human spaceflight}} banners with the new {{
WikiProject Spaceflight}} banner. Articles which need to be retagged are currently listed in
Category:WikiProject Spaceflight articles using deprecated project tags.
ChiZeroOne is doing a very good job replacing them, but as of the morning of 31 December, there are still 1,424 left to be converted. Additionally, the implementation of a new B-class checklist built into the template has necessitated the reassessment of former B-class articles, which the template has automatically classified as C-class.
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News from Orbit
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On 3 December,
USA-212, the first
X-37B, landed at
Vandenberg Air Force Base after a successful mission. On 5 December
Proton-M with a
Blok DM-03 upper stage failed to place three
Glonass-M satellites into orbit, the first of three failures in less than forty eight hours. The
NanoSail-D2 spacecraft was supposed to have been ejected from
FASTSAT in the early hours of the next morning, however it does not appear to have separated. Finally the
Akatsuki spacecraft failed to enter orbit around
Venus in the evening of 6 December. The Proton launch was the maiden flight of the
Blok DM-03, which does not currently have an article.
On 8 December the
Dragon C1 demonstration mission was conducted, with the
SpaceX Dragon making a little under two orbits of the Earth on its maiden flight, before landing in the Pacific Ocean to complete a successful mission. The
Falcon 9 rocket which launched the Dragon spacecraft also deployed eight
CubeSats:
SMDC-ONE 1,
QbX-1,
QbX-2,
Perseus 000,
Perseus 001,
Perseus 002,
Perseus 003 and
Mayflower. The CubeSats do not currently have articles.
On 15 December, a
Soyuz-FG launched
Soyuz TMA-20 to the
International Space Station, carrying three members of the
Expedition 26 crew. It docked two days later. The Soyuz TMA-20 article is currently short, and could use improvements to bring it up to the same level as articles for US manned spaceflights. On 17 December, a
Long March 3A launched
Compass-IGSO2. There is currently no article for this satellite.
17 December saw
Intelsat regain control of the
Galaxy 15 satellite, which had been out of control since a malfunction in April. The Galaxy 15 article is in need of serious cleanup and a good copyedit. On 25 December a
GSLV Mk.I failed to place
GSAT-5P into orbit. A Proton-M with a
Briz-M upper stage successfully launched
KA-SAT on 26 December. Barring any suborbital launches at the end of the month which have not yet been announced (a NASA
Black Brant was scheduled for December but does not appear to have flown),
2010 in spaceflight concluded on 29 December when an
Ariane 5ECA launched the
Hispasat-1E and
Koreasat 6 spacecraft. These do not currently have articles.
Four launches are currently scheduled to occur in January 2011. A
Delta IV Heavy is expected to launch
NRO L-49 on 17 January. The satellite is expected to be an
Improved Crystal electro-optical imaging spacecraft. Two launches are planned for 20 January, with
Kounotori 2, the second
H-II Transfer Vehicle, being launched by an
H-IIB, and the
Zenit-3F making its maiden flight to deploy
Elektro-L No.1, the first Russian geostationary weather satellite to be launched since 1994. On 28 January
Progress M-09M will be launched by a
Soyuz-U. 28 January will also be the twenty-fifth anniversary of the
loss of the
Space Shuttle
Challenger on mission
STS-51-L.
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It was requested that the article
Walter Haeussermann be expanded. Haeussermann, a member of the von Braun rocket group, died on 8 December. Although the article has been updated following his death, a user requested that more information about the engineer be added. Another user requested that the articles
Commercial Space Launch Act and
Launch Services Purchase Act be created, to cover laws of the United States concerning spaceflight.
Articles related to methods of taking-off and landing were discussed. The term
VTVL currently has an article whilst
VTHL and
HTHL do not. It was suggested that the existing article should be merged, and each term be covered by the article for the equivalent aviation term, however some distinction between use in the fields of aviation and spaceflight should remain.
Concern was raised that a
large scale deletion request could cause many images to be lost from articles, help was requested to investigate whether any of the images were not subject to copyright, or if they were then whether they could be uploaded to the English Wikipedia under a claim of fair use.
Concerns were raised about a large amount of content in the newly-created article
deorbit of Mir duplicating existing content in existing Good Article
Progress M1-5. A proposal to merge deorbit of Mir into Progress M1-5 was made, however objections were raised, and discussion has since stalled without reaching a consensus. It has also been requested that the article
Mir be copyedited.
The existence of separate categories for "spaceflight" and "space exploration" has been questioned, with a suggestion that some of the exploration categories, including
Category:Space exploration iteslf, should be merged into their spaceflight counterparts.
Missile Range Instrumentation Ship is currently listed at
requested moves, with a proposal to rename it
tracking ship. The only open
good article nomination is of the book
Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet, which is currently awaiting review.
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Editorial – Space Stations and the Push for Featured Topics
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There has recently been much talk about trying to increase the activity of the project. To this end, a major reorganisation effort has been undertaken, which has seen the space WikiProjects separated into the Astronomy, Solar System and Spaceflight groups, with WikiProject Space being abolished. We have also seen the child projects of WikiProject Spaceflight being abolished, with Timeline of Spaceflight becoming a working group, and the Unmanned and Human Spaceflight projects becoming task forces for now, with some suggestions that they should be abolished outright. The problem with the previous structure was that there were too many different groups of editors, and nobody was sure which projects were supposed to be doing what. Now there is only one project, this is somewhat clearer, but spaceflight is still a huge topic.
Another way to improve the activity of the project is to attract more editors. Spaceflight is a topic which many people have at least a very casual interest in, and therefore it is strange that there are only about four or five people regularly participating in discussions on the project talk page. Evidently action is needed to raise the profile of the project.
One way in which the project's profile can be raised is to have a major success associated with it. The creation of a featured topic could be one such success, and would also be hugely beneficial to articles in the area that it relates to. Space Stations are one of the most high-profile and notable areas of spaceflight, and are therefore a logical choice to spearhead such an initiative.
To this end, in late December a working group was established to concentrate and coordinate efforts to establish featured topics related to space stations. An initial proposal calls for topics on
Skylab,
Salyut,
Mir and the
International Space Station, as well as one on space stations in general. There is currently an effort to get
Mir promoted to Good Article status; the article currently requires a copyedit, after which it will be sent for peer review and then to GAN.
This is by no means a short-term project. There are many articles, particularly for the larger space stations such as the ISS and Mir, which are currently nowhere near becoming recognised content. Skylab is the smallest of the proposed featured topics, but it still requires that three C-class articles, two Start-class articles and a redirect all reach at least Good Article status, with at least three becoming Featured Articles. The ISS topic is so large that it may have to be subdivided.
I don't expect that we will have any featured topics by the end of the year, but I believe that a Good Topic, which requires all articles reach at least GA status, but does not require any featured articles, may be possible. I also believe that several articles on the subject can easily be improved to Good Article status, and some articles may be at featured level by the end of the year. In the long term, having featured topics will benefit the project and its content.
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Selected Article – Salyut 2
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Salyut 2 was an early space station, launched in 1973 as part of the
Salyut and
Almaz programmes. It malfunctioned two days after launch, and consequently was never visited by a manned
Soyuz mission.
The Salyut 2 article describes the station:
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Salyut 2 (OPS-1)(
Russian: Салют-2; English: Salute 2) was launched April 4, 1973. It was not really a part of the same program as the other
Salyut
space stations, instead being the highly classified prototype military space station
Almaz. It was given the designation Salyut 2 to conceal its true nature. Despite its successful launch, within two days the as-yet-unmanned Salyut 2 began losing pressure and its flight control failed; the cause of the failure was likely due to shrapnel piercing the station when the discarded
Proton rocket upper stage that had placed it in orbit later exploded nearby. On April 11, 1973, 11 days after launch, an unexplainable accident caused the two large solar panels to be torn loose from the space station cutting off all power to the space station. Salyut 2 re-entered on May 28, 1973.
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The article is currently assessed as start class, and is in need of attention. It consists of the above paragraph, along with a list of specifications and an infobox. The article needs to be rewritten in a more encyclopaedic style, and with more information about the space station. It has not yet been determined whether Salyut 2 would have to be included in a featured topic about the Salyut programme, or whether since it was never manned it is less integral to the topic, however if its inclusion were necessary then in its current form it would be a major impediment to this. Downlink readers are encouraged to improve this article, with a view to getting it to B-class and possibly a viable Good Article candidate by the end of the month.
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Issue 2, February 2011
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Project News · News from Orbit · Article News · The Charts · Yuri Gagarin
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Project News
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A report on
popular pages from December 2010 revealed surprising trends in readers' interests.
Boeing X-37 was the most popular article within the project's scope, with
SpaceX Dragon in second with
Global Positioning System in third place. The top seven articles were all assessed as C-class, with the remainder of the top ten being Good Articles. It was noted with some concern that
moon landing conspiracy theories was more popular than
moon landing.
A discussion regarding whether missiles warranted inclusion within the project scope was conducted, and resulted in the continued inclusion of missiles.
The last remaining articles tagged with the banner of the former Human Spaceflight WikiProject were re-tagged with the WikiProject Spaceflight banner. The last banner was removed on 8 January, and the template has since been deleted. The project is thankful to
ChiZeroOne for his work in this field.
Concerns were raised that the new article reporting system was not working correctly, however it was noted that there is sometimes a delay before articles appear on the list.
Discussion regarding the existence of the separate spaceflight and space exploration category structures led to a
mass CfD being filed on 10 January to abolish the space exploration categories, merging them into their counterparts in the spaceflight category structure. This was successful, and the exploration categories have been removed. Several other categorisation issues remain unresolved.
A proposal was made to standardise some of the infoboxes used by the project, the future of
Template:Infobox spacecraft (
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Template:Rocket specifications-all (
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WikiProject Rocketry. Concerns were also raised that the existing infoboxes were not well-equipped to handle spacecraft which operated in more than one orbit, or whose orbits changed over the course of their missions (which in practise is most of them).
Five members of the project gave interviews for the
Wikipedia Signpost, and a report on the project, authored by
SMasters (
talk ·
contribs), is expected to be published in the 7 February edition of the Signpost. It is hoped that this will raise interest in and awareness of the project.
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Four orbital launches were conducted in January, beginning on 20 January with the launch of
Elektro-L No.1 on the first
Zenit-3F rocket. This was followed later the same day by the launch of a
Delta IV Heavy with the
USA-224 reconnaissance satellite. The articles for USA-224 and the Zenit-3F rocket could use some expansion, whilst the Elektro-L No.1 satellite needs its own article.
On 22 January, an
H-IIB launched the second
H-II Transfer Vehicle,
Kounotori 2, to resupply the
International Space Station. It arrived at the station on 27 January. Less than a day after its arrival, another cargo mission was launched to the station;
Progress M-09M departed
Baikonur early in the morning of 28 January, docking on 30 January. In addition to payloads to resupply the station, the Progress spacecraft is carrying a small subsatellite,
Kedr, which will be deployed in February. Kedr does not currently have an article.
Progress M-08M departed on 24 January to make the
Pirs module available for Progress M-09M, and has since reentered the atmosphere. Its article needs to be updated to reflect the successful completion of its mission.
The
NanoSail-D2 satellite, which failed to deploy from
FASTSAT in December, unexpectedly separated from its parent craft and began operations on 18 January, with its
solar sail deploying on 21 January.
Nine orbital launches are scheduled to occur in February, beginning with the launch of the first
Geo-IK-2 satellite;
Geo-IK-2 No.11, atop a
Rokot/
Briz-KM, on the first day of the month. Articles need to be written for the Geo-IK-2 series of satellites, as well as for Geo-IK-2 No.11 itself, and the Briz-KM upper stage that will be used to insert it into orbit.
A
Minotaur I rocket will launch
NRO L-66, a classified payload for the US
National Reconnaissance Office, on 5 February. The payload has not yet been identified, however once more details are known, it will need an article. Iran is expected to launch the
Rasad 1 and
Fajr 1 satellites in February, with 14 February the reported launch date. The satellites will fly aboard a single rocket; either the first
Simorgh or the third
Safir. Once this launch occurs, the satellites will need articles, and the article on their carrier rocket will require updating.
The second
Automated Transfer Vehicle,
Johannes Kepler, is scheduled to launch on 15 February to resupply the ISS. Docking is expected to occur on 23 February. 23 February will also see the much-delayed launch of
Glory atop a
Taurus-XL 3110 rocket. This will be the first Taurus launch since the launch failure in early 2009 which resulted in the loss of the
Orbiting Carbon Observatory. In addition to Glory, three
CubeSats will be deployed;
KySat-1,
Hermes and
Explorer-1 [PRIME]. KySat and Hermes require articles, whilst the article on Explorer-1 [PRIME] needs to be updated.
On 24 February, a
Soyuz-2.1b/
Fregat rocket will launch the first
Glonass-K1 satellite;
Glonass-K1 No.11. Articles are needed for the series of spacecraft, as well as for the specific satellite being launched. It is likely that a
Kosmos designation will be given to the payload when it reaches orbit. In the evening of 24 February,
Space Shuttle
Discovery will begin its final mission,
STS-133, carrying the
Permanent Multipurpose Module, a conversion of the
Leonardo MPLM, to the ISS. Other payloads include an
ExPRESS Logistics Carrier, and the
Robonaut2 experimental robot. The first manned mission of 2011, Discovery's six-man crew will transfer equipment to the station, and two EVAs will be performed. The launch has already been scrubbed five times, before Discovery was rolled back to the
Vehicle Assembly Building to inspect and repair cracks on its
External Tank.
At some point in February, a
Long March 3B rocket is expected to launch two navigation satellites;
Compass-M2 and
Compass-M3, as part of the
Compass navigation system. The date of this launch is currently unknown. Both satellites will require articles once more information is available. A PSLV launch, carrying the
Resourcesat-2,
X-Sat and
YouthSat spacecraft, is expected to launch from the
Satish Dhawan Space Centre towards the end of the month, probably between 20 and 23 February.
Stop press: The Rokot launch was conducted at 14:00 UTC on 1 February, and at the time of writing it appears to have ended in failure, due to a suspected upper stage malfunction. The spacecraft is in orbit, it is not clear at the time of writing whether it will be salvageable.
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Reaction Engines Skylon is currently undergoing
peer review, its discussion page can be found at
Wikipedia:Peer review/Reaction Engines Skylon/archive1. A user requested feedback on major changes which had been made to the article, however at the time of writing no responses have been offered.
Following up on the issues covered in the last issue, the requested move of
Missile Range Instrumentation Ship to
Tracking ship was successful, with the article being renamed. The discussion concerning types of launch and landing resulted in a proposal to merge
VTVL into
VTOL, however this has been met with some opposition. Several other options have been suggested on
Talk:VTVL. The large scale deletion of mis-tagged Soviet images on Commons went ahead, with most of the useful ones having already been backed-up locally under fair use criteria.
Discussion was held regarding the naming of spaceflight-related articles. Concerns were raised regarding inconsistency in article titles and disambiguators.
A project guideline was adopted to standardise titles, with the parenthesised disambiguators "(satellite)" and "(spacecraft)" being adopted as standards for spacecraft, and the exclusion of manufacturers' names from article titles was recommended. Issues regarding Japanese spacecraft with two names, the correct names for early Apollo missions, and dealing with acronyms and abbreviated names remain unresolved.
A large number of articles were moved to conform to the standard disambiguation pattern. In addition, several Requested Moves were debated. A proposal to move
SpaceX Dragon to
Dragon (spacecraft), which began prior to the adoption of the standardised disambiguators, was successful.
Atmospheric reentry was subject to two requested moves, firstly one which would have seen it renamed
spacecraft atmospheric reentry, which was unsuccessful, however a second proposal shortly afterwards saw it moved to
atmospheric entry. A proposal currently under discussion could see
Lunar rover (Apollo) renamed
Lunar Roving Vehicle
Questions surrounding the transliteration of Russian names resurfaced, with a proposal to rename
Vladimir Chelomey to
Vladimir Chelomei being closed with no consensus, and a proposal to rename
Yury Usachov to
Yuri Usachev ongoing.
Several long-standing merger proposals were closed. A proposal to merge
Venera 15 and
Venera 16 into
Venera 15 and 16 was closed as no consensus, with the combined page being moved to
Venera 4V-2 to reduce the overlap in the articles' scopes.
Returnable satellite was merged into
Fanhui Shi Weixing.
Experimental Assembly of Structures in EVA and Assembly Concept for Construction of Erectable Space Structures was nominated for Good Article reassessment due to concerns over the article's quality. Doubts were also expressed over the thoroughness of the original review conducted upon its nomination for GA status. It was also suggested that the article's title may not be the most common name for the experiment, and that it might be necessary to move the page. Concerns were also raised regarding whether
Space Interferometry Mission was up-to-date, however these are being addressed.
Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet looks likely to be promoted to GA status.
Help was requested for adding citations to
List of Mir spacewalks. A request was made that
STS-88 be reviewed against the B class criteria, and suggestions for improvements made. Another user requested improvements to the article
Yuri Gagarin, with a view to having the article promoted to featured status in time for the fiftieth anniversary of his
Vostok 1 mission. As a result of this request, Yuri Gagarin is this month's selected article.
Questions were raised as to whether an article or category should be created to cover derelict satellites. The categorisation of spacecraft by the type of rocket used to place them into orbit was also suggested. In another categorisation issue, it was questioned whether
Space law should fall under space or spaceflight.
Stop press:
Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet has now been promoted to GA status.
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The Charts
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There is no editorial this month as no content was submitted for one. Instead, we present the "top ten" most popular articles within the project, based on the number of page views in January.
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was the most popular article of the last month, up fourteen places from 15th in December.
Space Shuttle Challenger was the highest climber in the top 40, up 42 places from 50th. December's most popular article.
Boeing X-37, dropped 57 places to 58th. On a happier note further down the chart,
moon landing is now ahead of
moon landing conspiracy theories.
For the full list of the top 1,500 popular pages within the project, see
Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Popular pages (or the
archived record for January).
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Selected Article: Yuri Gagarin
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Yuri Gagarin was the first man to fly in space, aboard
Vostok 1 in April 1961. He was subsequently awarded the title
Hero of the Soviet Union, and was training for a second flight at the time of his death in 1968.
His article describes him and his spaceflight experience:
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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (
Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин, Russian pronunciation:
[ˈjurʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksʲeɪvʲɪtɕ ɡɐˈɡarʲɪn]; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968),
Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet
cosmonaut who on 12 April 1961 became the first human to journey into
outer space.
On 12 April 1961, Gagarin became the first man to travel into
space, launching to orbit aboard the Vostok 3KA-3 (
Vostok 1). His call sign in this flight was Kedr (
Cedar;
Russian: Кедр). During his flight, Gagarin famously whistled the tune "The Motherland Hears, The Motherland Knows" (
Russian: "Родина слышит, Родина знает"). The first two lines of the song are: "The Motherland hears, the Motherland knows/Where her son flies in the sky". This patriotic song was written by
Dmitri Shostakovich in 1951 (opus 86), with words by
Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky.
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The article is currently assessed as C class, and had been assessed as B class prior to the criteria being redefined. Although a full reassessment has not yet been made, it seems close to the B class criteria, however details on his spaceflight experiences are somewhat lacking. It has been requested that the article be developed to Featured status by April, in time for the fiftieth anniversary of his mission.
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Issue 3, March 2011
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- Project News
- News from Orbit
- Article News
- Direction of the Project
- The Charts
- Europa
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Project News
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There have been very few discussions relating to the administration of the project in the last month, as things start to settle down after the merger.
An
invitation template has been created in an effort to attract new users to the project. Discussion was also held regarding the creation of a list of common templates, however no conclusions were reached. A proposal was made to implement an A-class assessment process, however editors are undecided about whether it would be best to copy the system used by another project such as
WP:MILHIST, or to develop one specifically for the requirements of this project.
User:ChiZeroOne has set up a
collaboration page in his userspace, initially focussing on articles related to
Skylab. Collaboration pages were at one point proposed as part of the structure of the Spaceflight project itself, however no consensus was achieved on the issue. If this collaboration is successful, it could open the door to a reevaluation of that situation.
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News from orbit
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Five orbital launches were conducted in February, out of nine planned. The first, that of the
Geo-IK-2 No.11 satellite atop a
Rokot/
Briz-KM ended in failure after the upper stage malfunctioned. The Rokot has since been grounded pending a full investigation; the satellite is in orbit, but has been determined to be unusable for its intended mission. A replacement is expected to launch within the year. A general article on
Geo-IK-2 satellites is needed, to supplement those on the individual satellites.
A Minotaur I rocket launched
USA-225, or NROL-66, on 6 February following a one-day delay. The second Automated Transfer Vehicle, Johannes Kepler, was successfully launched on 16 February to resupply the ISS. Docking occurred successfully on 24 February, several hours before
Space Shuttle
Discovery launched on its final flight,
STS-133. Discovery docked with the ISS on 26 February, delivering the
Leonardo module and an
ExPRESS Logistics Carrier to the station. Following several delays, a
Soyuz-2.1b/
Fregat rocket launched the first
Glonass-K1 satellite;
Glonass-K1 No.11, on 26 February. It is currently unclear as to whether the satellite has received a
Kosmos designation or not.
Seven launches are expected to occur in March. On 4 March, the
Glory satellite will launch atop a
Taurus-XL 3110 rocket. Three CubeSats will be also be deployed by the Taurus;
KySat-1,
Hermes and
Explorer-1 [Prime]. KySat and Hermes require articles, whilst the article on Explorer-1 [PRIME] needs to be updated. This launch was originally scheduled for February, but following a scrubbed launch attempt, it was delayed.
4 March will also see the launch of the
first flight of the second
X-37B, atop an
Atlas V 501. An article is needed for that flight, which will probably receive a
USA designation once it reaches orbit. On 8 March, Discovery is expected to land, bringing to an end the STS-133 mission, and
retiring from service 27 years after its
maiden flight. On 11 March, a
Delta IV Medium+(4,2) will launch the
NROL-27 payload. Whilst the identity of this payload is classified, it is widely believed to be a
Satellite Data System
communications satellite, bound for either a
molniya or
geostationary orbit. An article for this payload is required. 16 March will see the return to Earth of
Soyuz TMA-01M, carrying three members of the ISS
Expedition 26 crew.
A
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is expected to deploy the
Resourcesat-2,
X-Sat and
YouthSat spacecraft during a launch in March. The flight has been delayed several times, and was expected to have launched last month, however it is currently scheduled to occur no earlier than 20 March. On 29 March, an
Ariane 5ECA will launch the
Yahsat 1A and
New Dawn communications satellites. Both currently require articles. On 30 March, a
Soyuz-FG will launch the manned
Soyuz TMA-21 mission to the
International Space Station carrying three
Expedition 27 crewmembers.
On 31 March, a
Proton-M/
Briz-M launch will carry the
SES-3 and
Kazsat-2 spacecraft into orbit, in the first dual-launch of commercial communications satellites on a Proton. Several other launches may occur in March, however their status is unclear. Last month, a Long March 3B rocket was expected to launch two navigation satellites;
Compass-M2 and
Compass-M3, however this launch did not take place. It is unclear if it has been delayed to March, or further. The launch of the
Tianlian 2 communications satellite on a
Long March 3C may also be conducted in March, or possibly April. Both the Compass and Tianlian launches would occur from the same launch pad, which requires a turnaround of almost a month between launches, so it is unlikely that both will happen in March. A
Safir launch, which had been expected in February, now appears to have been delayed to April, but given the secrecy of the Iranian space programme, this is unclear.
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Article news
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Discussion regarding the merger of articles on launch and landing modes seems to have stagnated, with no consensus being reached on any existing proposal. A discussion regarding changes in the sizes of Soviet and American rockets during the 1950s and early 1960s was conducted, with claims that rockets became smaller in that period being dismissed, however it was noted that smaller rockets were developed with equivalent capacity to older ones were developed, as well as much larger ones with increased capacities.
Category:Derelict satellites orbiting Earth was created as a result of discussion surrounding the categorisation of derelict satellites. Concerns have also been raised that satellites are being listed as no longer being in orbit whilst still in orbit and derelict, and a discussion was held on how their status could be verified. An effort to categorise spacecraft by the type of rocket used to launch them is underway, however the categorisation of satellites by country of launch was rejected.
It was reported that a
sidebar has been created for articles related to the core concepts of spaceflight. Editors noted that it should only be used for core concepts, and not where it would conflict with an infobox. An anonymous user requested the creation of an article on
moon trees. It was pointed out that the subject
already had an article, and a redirect was created at the title proposed by the anonymous user.
Concerns were raised regarding the quality of the article
Japan's space development. Editors noted that the article appeared to be a poorly-translated copy of an article from the Japanese Wikipedia, although there have been some signs of improvement. Discussion regarding moving the article to
Japanese space program is ongoing, however a move request has not yet been filed.
A particular concern was raised regarding false claims in the article
Van Allen radiation belt. In one case a scientist to whom one of the claims had been attributed was contacted, and clarified that he had made a remark to that effect as a joke in the 1960s, but was not entirely sure how or why it had been included in the article. Other concerns were raised before the discussion moved to
WikiProject Astronomy.
A question was raised regarding the copyright status of images credited to both NASA and ESA, particularly with regard to images of the launch of the
Johannes Kepler ATV. The discussion reached no general conclusions, however it was found that the specific images that were suggested for inclusion in the article could be used, since they were explicitly declared to be in the public domain.
A template,
Template:Spaceflight landmarks (
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logs), was created to cover landmarks in the United States that are related to spaceflight. Several sources of public-domain NASA images were also discussed, and it was noted that almost all NASA images are public domain, however there are some exceptions.
It has been proposed that
Leonardo MPLM be merged with
Permanent Multipurpose Module since the two cover separate uses of the same spacecraft. A review of the article
STS-88 has also been requested.
Three new Good Articles have been listed:
Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet,
Bold Orion and
SA-500D.
Orion (spacecraft) was delisted after concerns that it contained out-of-date content. SA-500D is currently undergoing good article reassessment, using the community reassessment method, after the review of its good article nomination was criticised for being lenient and not sufficiently thorough.
Mir,
Mark E. Kelly and
Reaction Engines Skylon have been nominated for Good Article status and are awaiting review, whilst
List of Mir spacewalks is undergoing a peer review with a view to it becoming a featured list.
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Editorial: Direction of the Project
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Well folks, its now been more than three months since the
discussion that reformed the space-related WikiProjects, and in that time we've had a number of achievements we can be rightly proud of; we've gathered members up to a total of 43, improved awareness of the project via
an interview in the
Signpost, and refreshed the
spaceflight portal into an attractive, up-to-date and useful page. Meanwhile,
User:ChiZeroOne has made a sterling effort in clearing up talk page templates belonging to prior projects, we've managed to sort out various
policies, started work on rearranging our templates, and
User:GW Simulations has begun this excellent monthly newsletter for us. However, there are a few areas of the project that seem to be passing by the wayside, specifically the areas dedicated to fostering collaboration on articles and article sets between the project members, so here I present a call for more collaboration on the project.
Presumably, the lack of collaboration is due to folks not being aware of what's going on, so here's a quick rundown of some of the ways you get involved in the group effort. Firstly, and most importantly, it'd be fantastic if more members got involved in the discussions ongoing at the project's main talk page, found at
WT:SPACEFLIGHT. There are several discussions ongoing there, such as the relaunch of the spacecraft template, requests for assistance with various assessment and copyright queries, and conversations regarding category organisations, which affect many more articles, and thus editors, than are currently represented in the signatures so far.
Secondly, it was established earlier on in the project's formation that a great way to attract more editors would be to develop some good or featured topics. There are a couple of efforts ongoing to try to see this idea to fruition, such as the
Space stations working group and ChiZeroOne's own
collaboration page, currently focussed on
Skylab-related articles. These pages, however, have been notably lacking in activity lately, which is a shame, as their aims, given enough editor input, would really see the project furthering itself. Similarly, there are a number of requests for assessment for articles to be promoted to GA class, among other things, on the
Open tasks page, which lists all of the activities needing input from members. If everyone could add this page to their watchlists and swing by it regularly, we could power through the good topics in extremely short order! Other things that could do with being added to people's watchlists include
Portal:Spaceflight/Next launch, the many templates at
Template:Launching/Wrappers and the task list at
Portal:Spaceflight/Tasks.
Finally, I'd like to try and get people involved in finally settling the organisational problem we have with reference to the task forces and working groups. Whilst the
Timeline of spaceflight working group is a continuation of the old Timeline of spaceflight WikiProject and thus is ticking over nicely and the space stations working group has been mentioned previously in this editorial, the task forces (
Human spaceflight and
Unmanned spaceflight) in particular are currently dead in the water. I'm unsure as to whether or not this is because people are unaware of their existence, they clash too much with one another and the rest of the project or because people don't see a need for them, but if interested parties could make themselves known and others voice suggestions for getting rid of them, we can decide either if they're worth keeping and get them running again, or do away with a layer of bureaucracy and close them down. Any thoughts on the matter would be much appreciated.
In summary, then, we've got a great project going here, with a nice set of articles, a good editor base and lots of ways of getting involved. Thus, a plea goes out to everyone to get involved, get editing with the other project members, and hopefully we'll see ourselves take off in a manner not dissimilar to the trajectory dear old Discovery took last week. Many thanks for everyone's hard work so far, and poyekhali! :-)
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The Charts
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Since it is useful to keep track of the most viewed pages within the project's scope, it seems like a good idea to continue this feature, which was originally included in last month's issue as a one-off.
Satellite was the most popular article of February, up six places from seventh in December.
STS-133 was the highest climber in the top 10, up 78 places from 88th. January's most popular article,
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, dropped seven places to eighth.
Moon landing remains ahead of
moon landing conspiracy theories for the second month in a row.
Of the top ten, two articles are featured content, two are listed as Good Articles, and the remaining six are assessed as C-class.
For the full list of the top 1,500 popular pages within the project, see
Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Popular pages (or the
archived record for February).
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Selected Article: Europa
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Europa was a rocket developed by a multinational European programme in the 1960s. Consisting of British, French and German stages, it was intended to provide a European alternative to the US rockets used for the launch of most Western satellites to that date. Although the British
Blue Streak first stage performed well on all flights, problems with the French and German stages, as well as the Italian-built payload fairing, resulted in the failure of all multistage test flights and orbital launch attempts. The programme was abandoned after the failure of the Europa II's maiden flight in 1971. The article
Europa (rocket), describes it:
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The Europa rocket was an early
expendable launch system of the
European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO), which was the precursor to the
European Space Agency and its
Ariane family of launchers. The programme was initiated by the
UK and the first launch occurred in August 1967.
Tasks were to be distributed between nations: the
United Kingdom would provide the first stage (derived from the
Blue Streak missile),
France would build the second and
Germany the third stage.
The Europa programme was divided into 4 successive projects :
- Europa 1: 4 unsuccessful launches
- Europa 2: 1 unsuccessful launch
- Europa 3: Cancelled before any launch occurred
- Europa 4: Study only, later cancelled
The project was marred by technical problems. Although the first stage (the British Blue Streak) launched successfully on each occasion, it was the second or third stage that failed.
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The article is currently assessed as start-class, and is missing a lot of information. It also lacks some basic features such as inline citations. Since Europa was a fairly major programme, enough information should be available to produce a much higher quality article, and it could probably be brought up to GA status with enough effort.
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Hello - some editors fight off the vandal hordes, as I do repairing
pages with citation errors. If I didn't - there would be a large backlog in
Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting and in
Category:Pages with missing references list as in
Category:Pages with broken reference names (
more than 1500 yesterday). But it is impossible to work it alone. Do you know how to do a "
Blitz" (excuse the comparision) to find willing editors to work on it. It is much more easier to repair references if you do it one hour, one day or one week ago after the errors were made instead of months and years after the error was done. Very, very difficult to find these errors.
Only with
WikiBlame Search it is possible to find and repair
such errors.
Best wishes --
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Best wishes --
Frze
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There is a suggestion on
Wikipedia:Bot requests for a new
REFBot working as
DPL bot and
BracketBot do. I beg politely for consideration. Please leave a comment if you wish. Thanks a lot in anticipation. --
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