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This is my first WikiProject. I decided to create this project because I'm surprised it still didn't exist (there is a project even for the Moon, come on). Well, I hope you wish to be part of it and also help expand the page for now, as I've only added the basics so far. However, if you decide to edit the page, I want you 1) to not vandalize (obviously) and 2) not to do drastic changes. Just add more information. I prefer to leave most of the information in the main page instead of a subpage, by the way. That way you can simply scroll through the headers and there is always the table of contents on top in case you get lost. PS: Sorry for my bad english
Anyway, welcome! Get a userbox if you wish. {{User WPCOS}}
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member of the Cosmology task force. |
Tetra quark ( talk) 19:26, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
Creating the page isn't a bad idea. There would be one question whether this project deals with the entirety of the contents of Category:Cosmology, or only the contents of Category:Physical cosmology. I have to say I get the impression that it is intended as the latter rather than the former. If it is, then it might not be a bad idea to request that the Astronomy WikiProject banner be adjusted to give individual assessment details for this project. If it is intended for the whole field of cosmology, I could probably work up a talk page assessment banner at request. But it would be helpful to know in advance what the intended scope of the group is. John Carter ( talk) 20:17, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
Okay. As far as we know, Wiki has hundreds of cosmological articles, and mostly are on the scope of other WikiProjects. I think we must be a subproject of two or more projects. In that way they can contribute to us.
Next, we must invite members. There's a crapload of people at WT:AST, and they're great experts. I am pretty sure this would become a successful WikiProject, because even though cosmology is a complex subject, it is interesting. Besides, we got WT:AST in our back.
Next, what can we scope? Is it only about for components of the universe (i.e. cosmic microwave background, dark matter, dark energy, etc) or we include large scale structures (like Sloan Great Wall and Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall)?
Next, the current highlight picture of cosmology, CMB map by WMAP, is dating far back in 2009. A new version based on Planck is released, however no one yet uploaded it.
That's all. SkyFlubbler ( talk) 22:32, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
The theory of cosmic inflation is one of the dominant paradigms of modern cosmology, and the inflation article should obviously be included within the scope of this project. Does anyone know how to add it to this WikiProject? Polytope24 ( talk) 00:19, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
I just wanted to point out that M-theory is currently a good article nominee. It's not exactly a cosmology article, but it would be great of someone on here could review the article. Thanks! Polytope24 ( talk) 18:44, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
Was this wikiproject proposed through WP:COUNCIL, the WikiProject Council? -- 65.94.40.137 ( talk) 04:31, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
How much of philosophical/religious cosmology will be covered by this project?
-- 65.94.40.137 ( talk) 05:05, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
You might want to create a project banner {{ WikiProject Cosmology}} so that you can get article alerts up and running for the project. -- 65.94.40.137 ( talk) 05:12, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
{{class mask<noinclude>/templatepage</noinclude>|{{{class|}}} |topic=Astronomy |FQS=yes |redirect=yes |book=yes |fm=yes }}
{{importance mask<noinclude>/templatepage</noinclude> |1={{{1|}}} |class={{{class|}} |topic=Astronomy |bottom=yes }}
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ArticleAlertSubscription|project = WikiProject Cosmology}}
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Wikipedia:Article_alerts/Subscription_listWikiProject Cosmology (talk): Banner: {{WikiProject Cosmology}} → Wikipedia:WikiProject Cosmology#Article alerts → Wikipedia:WikiProject Cosmology#Article alerts
I woke up today and saw the project page so much more improved. Thank you for your work!
Well, the sidebar is on the right. I created the sidebar as a replacement for the table of contents. I guess it should be on the left. What do you think? Tetra quark ( talk) 14:54, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
Will we be needing a stub-type? {{ cosmology-stub}}
-- 65.94.40.137 ( talk) 00:04, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
Cosmology is a big subject of Wikipedia, so we must have the initial Cosmology category that branches out to scientific cosmology that branches out to physical cosmology and mathematical cosmology, and branches out many more. I think we need to identify the basics of cosmology so we can create the category tree.
Next, we need a to-do list so others may identify our tasks.
Next, article alerts and discussions must be on here.
Also, just for fun, a nice border and font on top, with an amazing picture similar to our sister WikiProject Spaceflight. I suggest the picture or background to be the Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2014 release. In addition, we need a double row list of members to maximize the space available. SkyFlubbler ( talk) 03:08, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
Wait a minute, wait a minute, WAIT A MINUTE! – Category:WikiProject Cosmology Members?! This category is not valid! As per other WikiProjects, they have the members list at their subpage, not on a category, like WP:AST's Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomy/Members.
I suggest the creation of Wikipedia:WikiProject Cosmology/Members. Clear! SkyFlubbler ( talk) 12:33, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
How about if I make a proposal?
Contrary to my first proposal above, instead of being a subproject, what about if we become a parent project? Cosmology is more than science, so say we will have many subprojects, like Wikiproject Physical cosmology, WikiProject Mathematical cosmology, Wikiproject Religious Cosmology, and so on... then those subprojects will be also subprojects of other projects. Example: Wikiproject Physical Cosmology subproject would also be a subproject of WikiProject Physics and Wikiproject Astronomy. SkyFlubbler ( talk) 06:29, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
When {{ WikiProject Cosmology}} is used on a page, it adds it to the redlinked Category:¬-Class Cosmology articles of ¬-importance. I can't figure out what in the template is causing this, so if someone (such as StringTheory11) could take a look, it would be appreciated. G S Palmer ( talk • contribs) 14:25, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Now that we are settled here, the main page of this project is sufficiently ok, there are some members, etc... so let's start working.
The article about the Universe is a very popular one but it is very very poor and it urgently needs attention.
What I've done so far:
What has to be done (This is where you go):
And of course, let's share some ideas. All items above are my ideas afterall Tetra quark ( talk) 03:23, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
|attention=yes
setting? If no one is going to be tracking that, it's not going to be useful|class=
types? (ie. DRAFT, REDIRECT, BOOK, PORTAL, etc)|importance=
? (from ST11's comment, maybe not)One thing we'll need to do is start tagging all of the articles pertinent to this wikiproject with the talk pager banner for wp:cosmology. We'll also need to sort out which things in space do and do not count towards the wp, such as asteroids and bodies of rock etc. Royal Mate1 20:45, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
FWIW, there's an interesting paper recently put on arXiv about cosmology ... http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01919 -- 65.94.40.137 ( talk) 08:12, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
FYI, here's a paper that might be useful for some of our editors ... http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9905116 -- 70.51.202.183 ( talk) 10:52, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
Based on my research, the best map of the CMB uploaded on Wikipedia is the 9 year WMAP data, which is on the Template:Physical cosmology. However, the more detailed map by Planck Surveyor is not uploaded. The map is linked in another website in the Planck (spacecraft) article, however we cannot use it here in Wikipedia since it is only linked, but not uploaded. I think it must be uploaded because it is the latest map of the CMB, with better detail. SkyFlubbler ( talk) 08:35, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Just a few updates.
First, the AAlertBot has finally updated the page. There is only one page in the AA list, but that's something.
Second, as some of you might know, I've been putting the banner on the talk pages now. Now I need to know for sure: Are we going to include historical and philosophical cosmology in the scope as well? Say, should Heliocentrism be in the scope, for example? What about Hindu Cosmology? I know we have discussed that before, but now it is decisive.
Physical cosmology is already settled, for sure. The banner has an image of the cosmic microwave background, so perhaps that banner wouldn't be the best for other articles, considering that very few people know what that image is. If we decide to expand the scope, we could either create a new banner with a more appropriate image or create a task-force. See the physics banner in this talk page. It'd be something like that. "Wikiproject Cosmology / Philosophical cosmology" or something. Tetra quark ( don't be shy) 18:54, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
Seems like some missing major navigation points:
-- 65.94.40.137 ( talk) 06:41, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
While trawling through DRAFTspace looking for Cosmology draft articles, I've found:
There are a few more that are fictional, mythological, religious or philosophical cosmology, but these are scientific cosmology related
-- 65.94.40.137 ( talk) 13:57, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Cosmology|class=draft}}
? --
65.94.40.137 (
talk)
08:27, 24 January 2015 (UTC)How does one suggest an article to be included - there doesn't seem to be a 'possible' section on the info box? I ask because there are several that might be included. Two to start off with are:
Richard Nowell ( talk) 14:17, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Started tidying Comoving distance but large parts of it are uncited and I'm not able to check the maths. I've removed ExLinks in text and replaced with inline citations. In 'External Links' there are some links to Fortran programming etc. that need pondering. I'm not sure that they should be linked to. Richard Nowell ( talk) 11:43, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
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Ryzhou ( talk) 02:24, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
Care to review Draft:Relic abundance? Thanks! FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 14:47, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
Self-creation cosmology has been nominated for deletion -- 70.51.202.183 ( talk) 05:14, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
The author of Complex spacetime is removing the WPCOSMOLOGY banner. So should this remain in our purview? -- 70.51.202.183 ( talk) 04:45, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
A new copy-paste detection bot is now in general use on English Wikipedia. Come check it out at the EranBot reporting page. This bot utilizes the Turnitin software (ithenticate), unlike User:CorenSearchBot that relies on a web search API from Yahoo. It checks individual edits rather than just new articles. Please take 15 seconds to visit the EranBot reporting page and check a few of the flagged concerns. Comments welcome regarding potential improvements. These possible copyright violations can be searched by WikiProject categories. Use "control-f" to jump to your area of interest (if such a copyvio is present).-- Lucas559 ( talk) 19:21, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
Do you think that template:convert should support an option that forces output to use scientific notation ? I've noticed there no such option at template talk:Convert. -- 70.51.45.100 ( talk) 05:32, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Template:convert, an MFD nomination of some templates in draft namespace, which may be relevant to the interests of this project. 103.6.159.74 ( talk) 16:50, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
MartinZ ( talk · contribs) has been removing cosmology from WP:Astronomy and placing it only into WP:Philosophy, despite the years of this being listed in WPASTRONOMY. This affects pages and categories. -- 70.51.200.162 ( talk) 04:53, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
See the above discussion. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 14:07, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I tagged the article Steady State theory for a potential move to "Steady State model" as it failed as an accepted theory. Your input there is welcome. Cheers, Rowan Forest ( talk) 14:28, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
That article was requested on the Astronomy/Cosmology requested articles list. It seems, now, to be the same thing as Inhomogeneous Cosmology, though mine will be much more a layman's explanation. I will probably request a merge. WritingMan ( talk) 14:54, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
There's a discussion about a possible User Group for STEM over at Meta:Talk:STEM_Wiki_User_Group. The idea would be to help coordinate, collaborate and network cross-subject, cross-wiki and cross-language to share experience and resources that may be valuable to the relevant wikiprojects. Current discussion includes preferred scope and structure. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo) talk 02:55, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
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There's a dispute at Talk:Dark_matter on whether to call dark matter a controversial theory or a proposed form of matter. Would appreciate some extra opinions there. Banedon ( talk) 02:14, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
I will be happy to take this WikiProject to be active again and be it's Project coordinator Signed, The4lines |||| ( You Asked?) ( What I have Done.) 02:09, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
I feel like the radiation-dominated era should have its own article, but I'm not knowledgeable enough in cosmology to create it. Anyone else? Sandizer ( talk) 18:29, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
This is the
talk page for discussing
WikiProject Astronomy/Cosmology task force and anything related to its purposes and tasks. |
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This is my first WikiProject. I decided to create this project because I'm surprised it still didn't exist (there is a project even for the Moon, come on). Well, I hope you wish to be part of it and also help expand the page for now, as I've only added the basics so far. However, if you decide to edit the page, I want you 1) to not vandalize (obviously) and 2) not to do drastic changes. Just add more information. I prefer to leave most of the information in the main page instead of a subpage, by the way. That way you can simply scroll through the headers and there is always the table of contents on top in case you get lost. PS: Sorry for my bad english
Anyway, welcome! Get a userbox if you wish. {{User WPCOS}}
![]() | This user is a
member of the Cosmology task force. |
Tetra quark ( talk) 19:26, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
Creating the page isn't a bad idea. There would be one question whether this project deals with the entirety of the contents of Category:Cosmology, or only the contents of Category:Physical cosmology. I have to say I get the impression that it is intended as the latter rather than the former. If it is, then it might not be a bad idea to request that the Astronomy WikiProject banner be adjusted to give individual assessment details for this project. If it is intended for the whole field of cosmology, I could probably work up a talk page assessment banner at request. But it would be helpful to know in advance what the intended scope of the group is. John Carter ( talk) 20:17, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
Okay. As far as we know, Wiki has hundreds of cosmological articles, and mostly are on the scope of other WikiProjects. I think we must be a subproject of two or more projects. In that way they can contribute to us.
Next, we must invite members. There's a crapload of people at WT:AST, and they're great experts. I am pretty sure this would become a successful WikiProject, because even though cosmology is a complex subject, it is interesting. Besides, we got WT:AST in our back.
Next, what can we scope? Is it only about for components of the universe (i.e. cosmic microwave background, dark matter, dark energy, etc) or we include large scale structures (like Sloan Great Wall and Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall)?
Next, the current highlight picture of cosmology, CMB map by WMAP, is dating far back in 2009. A new version based on Planck is released, however no one yet uploaded it.
That's all. SkyFlubbler ( talk) 22:32, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
The theory of cosmic inflation is one of the dominant paradigms of modern cosmology, and the inflation article should obviously be included within the scope of this project. Does anyone know how to add it to this WikiProject? Polytope24 ( talk) 00:19, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
I just wanted to point out that M-theory is currently a good article nominee. It's not exactly a cosmology article, but it would be great of someone on here could review the article. Thanks! Polytope24 ( talk) 18:44, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
Was this wikiproject proposed through WP:COUNCIL, the WikiProject Council? -- 65.94.40.137 ( talk) 04:31, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
How much of philosophical/religious cosmology will be covered by this project?
-- 65.94.40.137 ( talk) 05:05, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
You might want to create a project banner {{ WikiProject Cosmology}} so that you can get article alerts up and running for the project. -- 65.94.40.137 ( talk) 05:12, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
{{class mask<noinclude>/templatepage</noinclude>|{{{class|}}} |topic=Astronomy |FQS=yes |redirect=yes |book=yes |fm=yes }}
{{importance mask<noinclude>/templatepage</noinclude> |1={{{1|}}} |class={{{class|}} |topic=Astronomy |bottom=yes }}
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{{
ArticleAlertSubscription|project = WikiProject Cosmology}}
to
Wikipedia:Article_alerts/Subscription_listWikiProject Cosmology (talk): Banner: {{WikiProject Cosmology}} → Wikipedia:WikiProject Cosmology#Article alerts → Wikipedia:WikiProject Cosmology#Article alerts
I woke up today and saw the project page so much more improved. Thank you for your work!
Well, the sidebar is on the right. I created the sidebar as a replacement for the table of contents. I guess it should be on the left. What do you think? Tetra quark ( talk) 14:54, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
Will we be needing a stub-type? {{ cosmology-stub}}
-- 65.94.40.137 ( talk) 00:04, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
Cosmology is a big subject of Wikipedia, so we must have the initial Cosmology category that branches out to scientific cosmology that branches out to physical cosmology and mathematical cosmology, and branches out many more. I think we need to identify the basics of cosmology so we can create the category tree.
Next, we need a to-do list so others may identify our tasks.
Next, article alerts and discussions must be on here.
Also, just for fun, a nice border and font on top, with an amazing picture similar to our sister WikiProject Spaceflight. I suggest the picture or background to be the Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2014 release. In addition, we need a double row list of members to maximize the space available. SkyFlubbler ( talk) 03:08, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
Wait a minute, wait a minute, WAIT A MINUTE! – Category:WikiProject Cosmology Members?! This category is not valid! As per other WikiProjects, they have the members list at their subpage, not on a category, like WP:AST's Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomy/Members.
I suggest the creation of Wikipedia:WikiProject Cosmology/Members. Clear! SkyFlubbler ( talk) 12:33, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
How about if I make a proposal?
Contrary to my first proposal above, instead of being a subproject, what about if we become a parent project? Cosmology is more than science, so say we will have many subprojects, like Wikiproject Physical cosmology, WikiProject Mathematical cosmology, Wikiproject Religious Cosmology, and so on... then those subprojects will be also subprojects of other projects. Example: Wikiproject Physical Cosmology subproject would also be a subproject of WikiProject Physics and Wikiproject Astronomy. SkyFlubbler ( talk) 06:29, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
When {{ WikiProject Cosmology}} is used on a page, it adds it to the redlinked Category:¬-Class Cosmology articles of ¬-importance. I can't figure out what in the template is causing this, so if someone (such as StringTheory11) could take a look, it would be appreciated. G S Palmer ( talk • contribs) 14:25, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Now that we are settled here, the main page of this project is sufficiently ok, there are some members, etc... so let's start working.
The article about the Universe is a very popular one but it is very very poor and it urgently needs attention.
What I've done so far:
What has to be done (This is where you go):
And of course, let's share some ideas. All items above are my ideas afterall Tetra quark ( talk) 03:23, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
|attention=yes
setting? If no one is going to be tracking that, it's not going to be useful|class=
types? (ie. DRAFT, REDIRECT, BOOK, PORTAL, etc)|importance=
? (from ST11's comment, maybe not)One thing we'll need to do is start tagging all of the articles pertinent to this wikiproject with the talk pager banner for wp:cosmology. We'll also need to sort out which things in space do and do not count towards the wp, such as asteroids and bodies of rock etc. Royal Mate1 20:45, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
FWIW, there's an interesting paper recently put on arXiv about cosmology ... http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01919 -- 65.94.40.137 ( talk) 08:12, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
FYI, here's a paper that might be useful for some of our editors ... http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9905116 -- 70.51.202.183 ( talk) 10:52, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
Based on my research, the best map of the CMB uploaded on Wikipedia is the 9 year WMAP data, which is on the Template:Physical cosmology. However, the more detailed map by Planck Surveyor is not uploaded. The map is linked in another website in the Planck (spacecraft) article, however we cannot use it here in Wikipedia since it is only linked, but not uploaded. I think it must be uploaded because it is the latest map of the CMB, with better detail. SkyFlubbler ( talk) 08:35, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Just a few updates.
First, the AAlertBot has finally updated the page. There is only one page in the AA list, but that's something.
Second, as some of you might know, I've been putting the banner on the talk pages now. Now I need to know for sure: Are we going to include historical and philosophical cosmology in the scope as well? Say, should Heliocentrism be in the scope, for example? What about Hindu Cosmology? I know we have discussed that before, but now it is decisive.
Physical cosmology is already settled, for sure. The banner has an image of the cosmic microwave background, so perhaps that banner wouldn't be the best for other articles, considering that very few people know what that image is. If we decide to expand the scope, we could either create a new banner with a more appropriate image or create a task-force. See the physics banner in this talk page. It'd be something like that. "Wikiproject Cosmology / Philosophical cosmology" or something. Tetra quark ( don't be shy) 18:54, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
Seems like some missing major navigation points:
-- 65.94.40.137 ( talk) 06:41, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
While trawling through DRAFTspace looking for Cosmology draft articles, I've found:
There are a few more that are fictional, mythological, religious or philosophical cosmology, but these are scientific cosmology related
-- 65.94.40.137 ( talk) 13:57, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Cosmology|class=draft}}
? --
65.94.40.137 (
talk)
08:27, 24 January 2015 (UTC)How does one suggest an article to be included - there doesn't seem to be a 'possible' section on the info box? I ask because there are several that might be included. Two to start off with are:
Richard Nowell ( talk) 14:17, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Started tidying Comoving distance but large parts of it are uncited and I'm not able to check the maths. I've removed ExLinks in text and replaced with inline citations. In 'External Links' there are some links to Fortran programming etc. that need pondering. I'm not sure that they should be linked to. Richard Nowell ( talk) 11:43, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello Wikipedians,
We’d like to invite you to participate in a study that aims to explore how WikiProject members coordinate activities of distributed group members to complete project goals. We are specifically seeking to talk to people who have been active in at least one WikiProject in their time in Wikipedia. Compensation will be provided to each participant in the form of a $10 Amazon gift card.
The purpose of this study is to better understanding the coordination practices of Wikipedians active within WikiProjects, and to explore the potential for tool-mediated coordination to improve those practices. Interviews will be semi-structured, and should last between 45-60 minutes. If you decide to participate, we will schedule an appointment for the online chat session. During the appointment you will be asked some basic questions about your experience interacting in WikiProjects, how that process has worked for you in the past and what ideas you might have to improve the future.
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Ryzhou ( talk) 02:24, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
Care to review Draft:Relic abundance? Thanks! FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 14:47, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
Self-creation cosmology has been nominated for deletion -- 70.51.202.183 ( talk) 05:14, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
The author of Complex spacetime is removing the WPCOSMOLOGY banner. So should this remain in our purview? -- 70.51.202.183 ( talk) 04:45, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
A new copy-paste detection bot is now in general use on English Wikipedia. Come check it out at the EranBot reporting page. This bot utilizes the Turnitin software (ithenticate), unlike User:CorenSearchBot that relies on a web search API from Yahoo. It checks individual edits rather than just new articles. Please take 15 seconds to visit the EranBot reporting page and check a few of the flagged concerns. Comments welcome regarding potential improvements. These possible copyright violations can be searched by WikiProject categories. Use "control-f" to jump to your area of interest (if such a copyvio is present).-- Lucas559 ( talk) 19:21, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
Do you think that template:convert should support an option that forces output to use scientific notation ? I've noticed there no such option at template talk:Convert. -- 70.51.45.100 ( talk) 05:32, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Template:convert, an MFD nomination of some templates in draft namespace, which may be relevant to the interests of this project. 103.6.159.74 ( talk) 16:50, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
MartinZ ( talk · contribs) has been removing cosmology from WP:Astronomy and placing it only into WP:Philosophy, despite the years of this being listed in WPASTRONOMY. This affects pages and categories. -- 70.51.200.162 ( talk) 04:53, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
See the above discussion. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 14:07, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I tagged the article Steady State theory for a potential move to "Steady State model" as it failed as an accepted theory. Your input there is welcome. Cheers, Rowan Forest ( talk) 14:28, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
That article was requested on the Astronomy/Cosmology requested articles list. It seems, now, to be the same thing as Inhomogeneous Cosmology, though mine will be much more a layman's explanation. I will probably request a merge. WritingMan ( talk) 14:54, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
There's a discussion about a possible User Group for STEM over at Meta:Talk:STEM_Wiki_User_Group. The idea would be to help coordinate, collaborate and network cross-subject, cross-wiki and cross-language to share experience and resources that may be valuable to the relevant wikiprojects. Current discussion includes preferred scope and structure. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo) talk 02:55, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.
We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma ( talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
There's a dispute at Talk:Dark_matter on whether to call dark matter a controversial theory or a proposed form of matter. Would appreciate some extra opinions there. Banedon ( talk) 02:14, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
I will be happy to take this WikiProject to be active again and be it's Project coordinator Signed, The4lines |||| ( You Asked?) ( What I have Done.) 02:09, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
I feel like the radiation-dominated era should have its own article, but I'm not knowledgeable enough in cosmology to create it. Anyone else? Sandizer ( talk) 18:29, 22 May 2023 (UTC)