Talk:Orion Telescopes & Binoculars

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Why is Plössl capitalised and crayford not? Presumably they are both proper names of the inventors who devised their respective items? --Fire Star 火星 14:59, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

this article

Is in keeping with those of other telescope makers, and it not particularly spammy; these products are major ones in their field. DGG 03:25, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Recent shutdown

This article has been attracting a lot of unsourced, low quality, and speculative edits lately, some of it giving in-text attribution to online fora. I've reverted back to the August 31 version. As I meant to add to that edit summary, but did not because I hit the enter button too early, the claimed shutdown should remain in the lead, where everyone can see it, to discourage repetitive drive-by additions of it to random places in the article. Speculation should not go further than what is available in reliable sources. The only reliable source that I am aware of covering this continues to be the July S&T article. Meanwhile, Cloudy Nights, the largest bulletin board for amateur astronomy, has been locking down their threads on it to discourage the online rumor mill. Wikipedia should not be an outlet for that. If we can't have a stable article until new sources appear with actual information (not rumors) then I'm going to request a page lock that will keep new accounts from editing it. If you want refer to it in the past tense, I'm not going to revert that, but that was premature as well. Geogene (talk) 21:05, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your comments may be a bit harsh, but they're fair. I used to work for the company and have friends there who confirmed that everyone was abruptly fired and the building shuttered -- but of course, my word isn't a reliable source either.

That said, I think Space & Telescope might be the best source we're likely to get any time soon, and with that published, we should continue to use past tense. --causa sui (talk) 00:15, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]