Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomy/Solar System task force

A new proposal to reorganise space-related WikiProjects may affect this project. Please refer to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Space/Reorganisation for more information on the proposal, and discussion.

Reorganization of Space related wikiprojects

I've been thinking about how the Mars and Moon wikiprojects will fit into the Solar System project and have come up with the following suggestions;

All discussions on these two talk pages should be redirected to the Solar System talk page in order to help achieve a critical mass.
The main Mars and Moon project pages should remain as is. These contain useful information related to these specialized subtopics.
The article assessments and project banners should remain as is for the Moon and Mars subprojects. These are useful for those who are interested in tracking health of these respective subdisiplines.
If the time comes that the talk page of Solar System becomes overloaded, we can spin off these topics back to the old Mars and Moon talk pages.

Let me know what you think. In about a week I'll make the necessary changes to the Moon talk page. (I am currently alerting the members of Martian Geography to the possibility of renaming this project to just Mars to increase its scope.) Lunokhod 22:32, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please refer tp the discussion on reorganising Space-related projects. Best to keep all discussion in one place. --GW_Simulations_{User Page | Talk} 20:45, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mars: FAC

The Mars page has been put in as a featured article candidate - the comments so far here are of general interest to the current space reorganisation and solar system wide FA status :) - also any help giving Mars a push towards FAC velocity much appreciated, kind regards, sbandrews 18:50, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ephemerides

Found these, some of them have been prodded. 70.51.8.30 06:42, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Exploded Planet Hypothesis

Exploded Planet Hypothesis has been AfD'd. 70.55.84.23 06:55, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Conversion templates

Hello! This is to announce that several templates for automatic convertion between metric and imperial units and for displaying consistently formatted output have been created: {{km to mi}}, {{mi to km}}, {{m to ft}}, {{ft to m}}, {{km2 to mi2}}, {{mi2 to km2}}, {{m2 to ft2}}, and {{ft2 to m2}}. Hopefully, they will be useful to the participants of this WikiProject. The templates are all documented, provide parameters to fine-tune the output, and can be substituted if necessary.

Any suggestions, requests for improvement/features, or bug reports are welcome.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 17:12, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Solar System

How shall we maintain the Solar System portal? Atomic1609 19:06, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I put my thoughts here. — Pious7_Talk^Contribs 03:11, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pluto GA Nomination

Pluto is close to achieving GA status, but there are a few unreferenced sections. Atomic1609 12:38, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

aspects of asteroids

A whole lot of asteroids appear to have these ephemerides sections attached to them. See asteroids starting at #10, and continuing on and on and on. 132.205.44.134 21:40, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Independent evidence for Apollo Moon landings → Apollo missions tracked by independent parties

Independent evidence for Apollo Moon landings → Apollo missions tracked by independent parties- proposed by user:ScienceApologist. 132.205.44.134 23:08, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Pluto spacecraft, Template:Neptune spacecraft, Template:Uranus spacecraft

Template:Pluto spacecraft has been proposed for deletion at WP:TFD by user:Cop 633. 132.205.44.134 23:37, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Uranus

I nominated Uranus for WP:AID because it needs work (the other planets and dwarf planets are good or featured articles). Please support it there. — Pious7_Talk^Contribs 00:11, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Solar nebula renaming

~~Planetary formation→ Nebular hypothesis~~ Solar nebula → Nebular hypothesis - Serendipodous 20:58, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:RM for the suggestion.

70.51.11.38 03:29, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Solar System dynamic theories

I made the Category:Solar System dynamic theories, containing post-Newton astronomical (not that astrological stuff) theories about explosive solar system events, like Late Heavy Bombardment, Planet V etc..

Either: kill me violently, screaming: why did you create that stupid category? (you moron!!),
Or: hint me about pages that may belong to that category.
...no third option...

Said: Rursus 10:19, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Major Articles

Are there any really major Solar System articles that should go in the portal that I left out? Keep in mind that sub-articles of planets have to be added evenly. For example, we can't just have Geography of Mars if we want it, we have to have a Geography article for every planet that has it. Also remember that not every Solar System-related article can fit without cluttering the portal - I'm asking if I left out any obvious major articles. — Pious7_Talk^Contribs 15:39, 21 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've added Halley's Comet to the list of comets in the topics section. Watch37264 19:18, 21 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Neptune Peer Review

Because Neptune is an A-class article, I started a peer review for it. Feel free to review it or address some of the criticism so it can become a featured article candidate. The Solar System featured topic is almost all featured articles and this makes it one step closer. — Pious7_Talk^Contribs 19:47, 21 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Portal: Solar System as Featured Portal Candidate

Portal: Solar System is a featured portal candidate at Wikipedia:Featured_portal_candidates/Portal:Solar_System. So far, there hasn't been much of a discussion. — Pious7_Talk^Contribs 20:12, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Importance ratings on articles...

I think we should have importance ratings on articles. Some articles obviously deserve more attention than others (e.g. Solar System would be top-importance, the planets and dwarf planets would be high-importance, etc.). Especially if the Space reorganization is ever complete, we need to be more active. — Pious7_Talk^Contribs 21:21, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Guys

Hey fellow members. Doesn't everyone agree with me that we should make a userbox for our WikiProject. What does everyone else think? Leave your comments here. Thanks, Meldshal42.

I made one at Template:User Solar System... — Pious7_Talk^Contribs 00:29, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oort Cloud

Hi

I'm trying to sort out the mess at the end of the Oort Cloud article, and have put a potential rewrite on the article's talk page. Any feedback would be most welcome - I've read the literature in an attempt to sort this out, but the outer solar system isn't my usual territory. Chrislintott 18:53, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've added it to the To Do list of WikiProject Solar System under "cleanup." — Pious7 02:25, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Amalthea

~~I nominated article about Amalthea for good article status. Please, review it. Ruslik 12:02, 17 May 2007 (UTC)~~[reply]

The article about Amalthea (moon) has been listed as a good article now. Ruslik 13:27, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rings of Jupiter

I requested scienific peer review of the article about Rings of Jupiter. Any comments are welcome.Ruslik 11:13, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Uranus is ACID's collaboration this week

Uranus has survived WP:ACID and is this week's collaboration. Please help improve this neglected article if you can. — Pious7 02:19, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Planetary-size comparison

Found an unusual article, Planetary-size comparison, which in a previous incarnation was redirected as a fork. Looks like it might be cleaned up into a reasonable article for the Simple English Wikipedia? 70.55.86.19 05:02, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rings of Jupiter to FA

I nominated the article for FA status. Please, participate. Ruslik 13:35, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Deadline for Uranus

Per the new resolution at Wikipedia:Featured topic criteria, the Solar System featured topic will be eligible for removal after 1 January 2008 if Uranus is not improved to GA or FA level. Thanks.--Pharos 03:09, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Io (moon) Scientific Peer Review

I have submitted Io (moon) for a Scientific Peer Review. Any comments on further improve the article, particularly along the lines of the points mentioned on the peer review discussion page, would be much appreciated. Let's try to get another moon to featured article status (or in this case, back to featured article status). --Volcanopele 20:39, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tiamat (hypothetical planet)

Tiamat (hypothetical planet) has been requested for deletion at WP:AFD by User:JoshuaZ. 132.205.44.134 02:35, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Agree, because it's not a scientific theory. Its proper place should be in the modern mythology category if it existed (not in Hypothetical bodies of the Solar System). Ruslik 07:43, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

FT Discussion

There is a discussion going on about the Solar System featured topic on its talk page. Feel free to contribute to the discussion and help improve that featured topic's articles.— Pious7 15:13, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Selecting Pictures for Portal:Solar System

You can help select pictures for Portal:Solar System! Simply go to the nomination page and nominate or vote on a featured picture that meets its requirements. — Pious7 18:07, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've got Sitchin

Every now and again I come down with serious Sitchin. And now it's at hypothetical planet again. I deleted it and it came right back. I don't really know what to do with him; he just keeps popping up. It's the new religion I think. Serendipodous 22:21, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Minor forking issue

I'm not sure if this is resolvable, but heliosphere, interplanetary medium, and solar wind all deal with different aspects of the same thing. I was wondering if there was some possibility for mergence. Serendipodous 22:21, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of asteroids at AfD

List of asteroids was nominated for deletion at WP:AFD by user:Cerejota as listcruft: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of asteroids. 132.205.44.5 21:45, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Callisto

I requested peer review of Callisto (moon of Jupiter). Any comments are appreciated. Ruslik 16:53, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AfD on Comets in popular culture

Comets in popular culture has been nominated for deletion by user:Eyrian at 19:21, 26 July 2007 (UTC). The discussion is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comets in popular culture. 132.205.44.5 22:25, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Saturn FAC

I have nominated the article Saturn, on which I have been working for a couple of weeks now, for FAC. Please come and support it here. Thank you. Universe=atom^{Talk•Contributions} 16:37, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Solar nebula → Nebular hypothesis

Serendipodous suggests that Solar nebula be renamed Nebular hypothesis. 70.51.8.214 07:16, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations!

Congratulations! I have gotten the article Saturn to Featured Status, as seen here. A great boost to this project. Universe=atom^{Talk•Contributions} 09:56, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]