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Hello. I just finished a draft on a payload to be deployed to the Moon south pole by Moon Express. The payload is a laser retroreflector called MoonLIGHT. My draft is at my sandbox: [1].
I am requesting someone's help to make the name and redirect(s) for this new article, as I am not experienced in that. As it is, the name MoonLIGHT redirects to Moonlight and I don't know how to create my article name without messing other important redirects with similar spelling. Any help will be appreciated. Cheers, BatteryIncluded (talk) 15:44, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not seeing anything at MoonLIGHT; I believe that typically article titles are case-insensitive after the first letter (which is auto-capitalised). Since this is the case (pardon the pun), I would think it reasonable to have it as the primary topic at MoonLIGHT (as setting up a redirect from there is either going to go straight to the article, in which case it might as well just be hosted in place of the redirect, or else redirect to the main Moonlight article and frustrate anyone who has taken the time to capitalise the correct letters). — Sasuke Sarutobi (talk) 18:35, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I saw an edit by a new user (diff). I do not have time right now to see if it was legitimate, though at a glance it seems like it removes all negative information about the subject. Can someone take a more thorough look and revert if necessary? Kees08 (Talk)02:18, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Looking through the edit, it certainly removes some of the more negative aspects about Ham. However, I do not feel that it is to the detriment of the article, as it removes many extraneous details (Ham's lack of children from her first marriage, her divorce in the Columbia aftermath section). The only questionable part seems to be removing the section about the conflict of interest from the Columbia Investigation Board. Balon Greyjoy (talk) 03:17, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
It was also improper to remove the second paragraph from the lead; I agree with the subsequent edit which restores this in addition to the noted conflict of interest. JustinTime55 (talk) 14:09, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Good catch, but looks like this template is deprecated: not used in any article as of today,[2] and last activity was several years ago. — JFGtalk17:07, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Does this have to do with SpaceX and not being able to transmit video? If there is enough coverage, we can write an article about it; I did not see an article yet. If there is not enough coverage, we can slip it into a SpaceX flight article instead or somewhere like that, and create a redirect there. Kees08 (Talk)03:55, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
When I first found the spaceflight portal 2 months or so ago, it hadn't been updated since October 2017. I think it's a nice feature to have on our landing page, but we rarely update it. I'm okay with updating it whenever I have time, but mostly I don't. Anybody who can think of a solution that requires less constant input on the part of the editors, please help. I can only code (very badly) in python, so I can't really help if the answer is "make code that does it for us". I'm still really new to wikipedia though, so if this is a stupid request, please let me know! I don't mind.
I would love to officially deprecate/delete the portal, if we have support. I do not think the project is active enough to support it, and I am not sure any project is active enough really. If anything, I would support a newsletter over the portal, and even then projects have a hard time with it. Kees08 (Talk)03:53, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
A-class reviews at Milhist
There are a couple of astronauts getting reviewed for A-class at Milhist, please take a run through them if you have time. They are pretty high profile astronauts, so the more input we get on it the better. Thanks! Kees08 (Talk)03:52, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I think it has been down for awhile. I will try to copy another projects Recent Changes page soon, until then it will remain down. Let me know if you find anything else broken; I recall finding several things awhile ago and only fixing some of it. Kees08 (Talk)08:15, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Proposal to eliminate importance for WP:Spaceflight
Relatively recently, we had a discussion to modify our assessment page a little bit. While we have not seen a lot of change come out of that (anyone want to be the first A-class review? I will set up the page!), I think it was a positive change.
At the same time, we discussed if we wanted to modify our importance criteria, but held off on the discussion. Since then, I have converted to WP:MILHIST's point of view. MILHIST does not use importance ratings, due to their limited utility and that they can cause some grief if people see the importance of an article differently. While I do not think much grief has occurred on this project due to their use (if any?), I never find myself changing priorities based on the importance value of an article. If anything, I go to the pageview tool and see which pages are the most popular to prioritize my work.
Therefore, unless some people on this project use them to prioritize their work and would to continue to do so, I recommend their elimination. We can focus our efforts on other, more worthwhile tasks. I can do an WP:AWB run to clear out the importance ratings for our project, or have someone else perform one. Let me know your thoughts thanks! Kees08 (Talk)02:49, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]