Rocketmaniac

Welcome

Just a quick edit of my User Talk page.

Integrated Guided Missile Development Program (India)

Hi Dude

I have read this article in details today and it contains overwhleming amount of very dubvious claims with minimal amount of reliable resources.

Being a knowledgable person in this area, could you please have a look this - as in my opinion such articles seriously undermine Wikipedia's reliability as an encyclopedic resource.

Many thanks -- Ash sul 18:20, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello, Thanks for compliment, but I'm not knowlegable about Indian weapons. What areas of the article do you believe to false and mis-leading? Rocketmaniac 02:22, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Hey, I did some research on the Astra missile and edited that section in the article. Rocketmaniac 14:07, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Flags on List of astronauts by name

Curious as to your reason for removing the flag icons from List of astronauts by name. An astronaut's citizenship is a frequent demarcation and common point of interest for those researching spaceflight. Also, WP:FLAG states "Flag icons may be appropriate in tables or lists provided that citizenship, nationality or jurisdiction is intimately tied to the topic at hand, such as comparison of global economic data or reporting of international sporting event results". Rillian 00:58, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

It was discussed here. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Human Spaceflight I was just following the advice of someone who has tons more experience here on Wikipedia. Rocketmaniac 01:08, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Astronauts by name

Got your note, and I took a look at your sandbox. The agency only needs to be wiki-linked once, per the WP:MOS, so just the first mention of NASA gets the link, NASA, and all the rest don't need to be linked. Same with all agencies. And yeah the list does look better in a table, but it maybe could be smaller, it probably doesn't need to be full width. And, the note about flags at the top would need to be removed, lol. That's a big job, for sure, lol. Thanks for taking it on! Ariel♥Gold 14:49, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Also, if you don't know about it, in the history tab of an article, you can compare two versions using the checkmarks on the left, (such as the current version of an article after you edit it, and the version that was in effect prior to the start of your editing), and if you decide you'd like to go back to that previous reversion, just click on "Restore this version". There is no need to undo all the individual edits one at a time, so that should save you some time perhaps in the future :) Ariel♥Gold 14:59, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

I was mainly talking about the general appearance of the section. I've not yet mastered the art of tables, but if I do the tedious part of creating tables, I might get someone else to make it look better. (hint hint). Question, a new table for each letter? And far as only linking the first space agency, I'd think you'd want to do the first one in each section. That way if the reader was way down the list at letter "M" they wouldn't have to go back up top and find the first occurance of the space agency. Logical? I should be able to get the whole list modified this weekend. Rocketmaniac 17:09, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, new table for each letter so there is a table of contents. And yeah, probably a good idea to wiki-link the agencies for each letter as well, the first instance. Once it is done I can tweak it, sure. Thanks again for taking on the project! Also see my note on the project page about the other list. Ariel♥Gold 17:55, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Table looks good. A few comments. First column should be labeled Name as the article title already states that they are all Astronauts. "Space Agency" can just be "Agency". Not sure we can avoid the nationality column. Most casual readers will want to know what country the astronaut represented. With RKA in particular, not all RKA astronauts are Russian or Soviet. How about a "Number of Missions" column? Should birth date be a separate column? How about a column for Active Duty where we would list the years of duty with the agency? Rillian 19:00, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Good ideas, Rillian! But I'd still discourage the use of nationality flags, as especially with a table like that, it is going to slow down the loading of the page, and it isn't necessary to have the icons. It is true that in the older days, nationality was a bit more obscure with regards to which agency, but now, the only agency that has astronauts from other nations is ESA, (where someone was born doesn't matter in terms of their participation as an astronaut, generally speaking, for instance, a NASA astronaut who was born abroad still is from NASA, an American agency) but I agree that since this is a comprehensive table, a country of origin column may be worth adding. Ariel♥Gold 19:05, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm not mandating flag icons, rather that a Nationality column is an important demographic detail that most readers are interested in. In any case, we should probably move this discussion to Talk:List of astronauts by name Rillian 19:23, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Oh, sorry I didn't mean you were asking for flag use, my apologies if it seemed that way! :D And yep, discussion could be moved, and I do agree with a nationality column! :o) Ariel♥Gold 19:25, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Status thingie

No need to apologize at all, that's actually a script written by Misza that I customized, so you're more than welcome to use it! Ariel♥Gold 17:12, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

SC portal

User:Rocketmaniac/South Carolina2 is fixed.

When you move it and its subpages into the portal space, you'll need to do search/replace on its main page, changing "User:Rocketmaniac" to "Portal".

To search/replace, cut and paste the whole page into a text editor (I used Wordpad, which comes with Windows) for this. To start Wordpad on Windows click on Start, then All programs, then Accessories, then Wordpad.

If you need further assistance, please let me know.

The Transhumanist 01:32, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

WOW, you made it look easy. Many thanks. In your opinion, what else needs to be (or should be) done to the portal before going live with it? Again, thank you for you help. Rocketmaniac (talk) 02:15, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

It still needs an excerpt from a featured article. If there is no featured article on a South Carolina topic, select one yourself from the encyclopedia, and rename that section "Selected article". The section "Today in South Carolina history" requires ongoing upkeep (one entry per day). Therefore, unless you want to track down 365 entries per year for that section, you should replace that section with something else, or just remove it. Once you've done the these things, look over ten other portals. Implement any good ideas you get from doing that, and then go live. Have fun. The Transhumanist 02:29, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Hey, I got my Portal moved to a "real" page and everything appears to be fine. Now, what links/redirects do I need to edit to include this new Portal? Is there a template or list to follow? No sense in building a portal if no one goes there and uses it right? Thanks again. Rocketmaniac (talk) 03:37, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Nice Job. Clean and crisp.

I moved things around to reduce white space and balance the columns. You might want to move the sections around some more to get the best placement/order of presentation.

Are purge buttons no longer needed? You might want to look into whether or not your portal needs one.

For links, you need to put a portal template on the corresponding article and category page. See other articles for how it's done there. Add your portal to the portal directory (accessible from Wikipedia:Portals), also add it to Portal:Portals, and to the shortcut directory (see the menu at the top of the Community Portal). Announce your new portal on the WP:CBB (in the section for new portals).

I hope that helps.

The Transhumanist 07:44, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Yea, as it grows it might need some additional shuffling around. I'll wait until I am finished with the major "adds". I'm not what a purge button is, so I don't know if the portal needs one or not. Rocketmaniac (talk) 12:33, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Iamanadam's Response

Didn't add it The town I mean, it was already there. I simply made it as a link. I was going to go back and take if off the list of cities, but I never got the chance Iamanadam (talk) 22:02, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Centering Template:Delaware title

14-Dec-2007: For Internet Explorer browsers, the title is centered over the capital. What web browser/version are you using, and which direction (left/right) is which state's title not centered over its capital-city name? I see now the alignment is different in Mozilla Firefox, formerly centered there, although not in IE. -Wikid77 (talk) 15:23, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

I am using IE 7. The capital was off to the right. But that has all changed now. User:Zzyzx11 reverted your edit. (or at least on the South Carolina one) Rocketmaniac (talk) 19:07, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Round O, South Carolina

Saw your comment on ArielGold's talk page, So I looked at the contributions of the ip editor here [1] and with edit like these:[2] & [3] I doubt it was a serious edit. :-)▪◦▪≡SiREX≡^Talk 04:00, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Yea, after looking at those edits, this user is up to no good. Thanks for you input and then reverting the Round O article. Rocketmaniac (talk) 04:19, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Portal: Georgia (U.S. state)

Rocketmaniac,

I've noticed that you're doing some work on the Georgia (U.S. state) Portal tonight. I've went ahead and added myself to the list of collaborators as well. Is there anything you need me to do? I'm about to go offline, but I'll be glad to help out starting tomorrow. Thanks for all your help with the portal. Reb (talk) 01:50, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Hey Reb. I started the South Carolina Portal a few weeks ago and have family in Georgia so I thought I might as well work on the portal. LOL, I started creating the Georgia Portal from scratch. After about 45 minutes of work (in my user area) I realized that it already existed. I must have missed it because of the issue with Georgia the country and Georgia the state. This portal is by no means "my" project. But, in my opinion I think it would be neat to expand it and make it excellant. When I research how other portals were created,there was one portal (I think Texas) that had multiple "Selected Articles" and a system of rotating them automatically. It would totally cool to have that for either the Georgia or South Carolina portals. Other than that, just normal expanding is what I see that should be done. Thanks for taking an interest. Rocketmaniac (talk) 02:10, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Hey Rocket. Yep, I'm from Claxton and GSU graduate. Glad you like what I did at the portal. I was going to add more articles (was shooting for 30), but I got called away from the comp and never got finished. It looks great so far! Reb (talk) 03:13, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Regarding the maintainer section at the Directory, why don't you just list us both as maintainers until we get more collaborators at the portal? Then we can make a formal decision on the individual who'll maintain it. Reb (talk) 19:37, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Rocketmaniac, I've been remiss in something. I'm not sure if you're aware but there is a WikiProject: Georgia (U.S. state) that I'm a member of. I think you'd be a great asset if you'd like to join. Reb (talk) 20:03, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

I was actually thinking about the "Featured picture" section yesterday. I think we can adjust it, we just have to figure out how. I know that mainly it'll just involve moving the title to "Selected picture" from "Featured picture" but I don't know about the code and all. The Texas Portal might have some clue.

Georgia county navigation boxes

I agree that it looks a little bit bare. I'm not sure what we could add to it, though - maybe important geographic features? Oh, and a fun fact for you that I just learned last year - all "towns" and "cities" are, by Georgia law, designated cities. Weird, huh? Reb (talk) 14:13, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

I liked the ideas about schools, bodies of water, etc. As for cities, the Georgia article's section on cities differentiates between metropolitan and micropolitan areas. Perhaps just use that for cities? I don't know about CDPs but I do believe we have unincorporated communities. I'm almost certain I've seen that mentioned in various articles about Georgia cities. And I did answer that Portal question; I just messed up and didn't indent it over to make it more visible. Fixed that now - it's in your portals section. Reb (talk) 15:50, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Rocket, I really like that list you've got and think it'll be very helpful. As for your other concern with cities I just went and checked out the Settlement category. In my honest opinion we're only going to need to use four designations. They are:

• CDP
• Metropolitan
• Micropolitan
• Unincorporated communities

As I said earlier, by law every community is a city so the "villages" and "towns" in that cat are immaterial - in my opinion. We'll have to work with it and see how it goes, I guess. Just let me know what you want me to do...might not be able to do a whole lot until Wednesday or Thursday of next week, though. Reb (talk) 00:21, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

We definitely need to mention it on the WikiProject page, I think. Hopefully we'll get a few more people interested in what we're doing. Reb (talk) 03:14, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Rocket, I'm responding to the discussion at VerruckteDan's talk page right now. I forgot to add, my Christmas was great. Like you, I ate way too much *L*. Hope yours went well as well. Reb (talk) 16:05, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Just wanted to let you know that VerruckteDan asked me to offer an opinion on this question, so I've given one on his talk page. Nyttend (talk) 23:43, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

A cup of cocoa

Have a hot cup of cocoa, you're doing tons of great work, and deserve a rich, creamy, decadent reward. Ariel♥Gold 21:35, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

LOL, thanks. I don't have an awards page, where do I put the cup of cocoa? Rocketmaniac (talk) 22:38, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Portal: South Carolina

Hey Rocket. I'll be glad to help out with those sections. I'll probably get to them after lunch. Reb (talk) 14:05, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Did the Featured articles section. I'll work on biographies in a little bit Reb (talk) 15:53, 28 December 2007 (UTC).

Article assistance

Hey Rocket. I was wondering if you wouldn't mind taking a gander at my sandbox and letting me know what you think of the article I'm working on? It's a Protected areas of Georgia (U.S. state) article. The only thing that I know is missing is a Local level protected areas section; having a heck of a time finding decent information for that section, though. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 21:50, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Anytime. I still have to do the biography section; didn't get to that like I planned. Thanks for looking at my article. Reb (talk) 22:57, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Rocket, thanks for the detailed response on the article. I agree one hundred percent about those sections sounding like lists. I need to go back to the sources and see if I can't find a way to reword them somehow. And yes, the paragraphs that talk about areas under the control of the Georgia Department of Parks and Recreation and the United States Department of the Interior are meant to differentiate between the two. As for flora and fauna thing, first thanks for the links; I didn't even think about adding them myself. Secondly, yes I believe that's what I meant (that there are 58 protected plants). It's been a while since I worked on that area so I need to go back again to the source and make sure I'm right about that. Thanks so much again and if you have any more ideas/comments, please let me know. Reb (talk) 13:43, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge

Sounds like a plan. Right now I'm working on a Sports in Georgia (U.S. state) article in my sandbox. Have fun on your trip! Reb (talk) 01:33, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Hey Rocket. Just got a little nosy and peeked in your sandbox. Great work on Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge. If there's anything I can do to help, let me know. Reb (talk) 20:54, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

It makes it a whole heck of a lot easier when you've got a format don't it? Reb (talk) 23:24, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

I did see that, but didn't really pay attention to the first time. It looks good! Reb (talk) 13:46, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Hey, Rocket. Man, I didn't even think about that in regard to the category. Sorry about that Reb (talk) 01:40, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Protected areas, parks, forests and other areas

Rocket, there is a Wikipedia: WikiProject Protected areas. That might be the best place for you to look. If you need me to drop in and post my thoughts, let me know Reb (talk) 18:16, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

More answers to more questions

Hey Rocket, sorry I didn't get back to you last night. In answer to your first question, I don't think all rivers and lakes are protected areas but I can't be sure. In regard to your second question, again I can't be sure, but I'd probably put it in "Other" for now. It depends on where you think the Savannah Coastal Refuges Complex goes. Reb (talk) 14:29, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Invitation

Template:Infobox Protected areas of Georgia (U.S. state)

Hey, Rocket. I was wondering if I could get you to look at the Template:Infobox Protected areas of Georgia (U.S. state) and do the double map thing on that infobox? Also, could you change the Latitude and Longitude to Coordinates? I never could figure that out. Thanks Reb (talk) 19:24, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

That is exactly what I wanted! Thanks! Don't worry about the locater dot for this particular infobox, though. I don't think it's necessary. Thanks again. Reb (talk) 01:32, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: What's going on?

Hey Rocket. Things are good here. Been trying to work on the Georgia Department of Transportation article to expand it. But, I just can't drum up the energy. Lunch sounds great if you do get down here. Thanks for the offer. Reb (talk) 16:11, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Lunch sounds great, Rocket. Do you have an e-mail address I can use to get in touch with you? Reb (talk) 17:26, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Just sent you an e-mail, Rocket. Reb (talk) 19:25, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Human Spaceflight WikiProject

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Hmmm. This actually sounds right up my alley. I'll join that project. Gladtohelp (talk) 03:23, 29 February 2008 (UTC)gladtohelp

Long Snappers

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Your new signature

The "maniac" part links to Special:Contributions/Rocketkmaniac. I appreciate you giving Rocketkmaniac recognition, but isn't it the norm to link to your own contribs page? ;) Nousernamesleft^{copper, not wood} 23:12, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

LOL, that sure is a funny username huh. Thanks for pointing that out to me. Rocketmaniac ^RT 23:47, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Re: 2008 Colorado Buffaloes football team and moving coaches/roster section

Thanks for adding the see also's. I moved the Coaches and Roster (empty) sections of this article that you moved down below the game summaries (which are empty as well). WP:CFB designed a season article layout format which should be followed for articles such as this. You can see the layout at Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Yearly team pages format. If you wish to discuss a change in the format, you can do so at WT:CFB, otherwise please follow the format. Thanks. MECU≈talk 00:00, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Good to know that there is an actual standard or format for these articles. Now we just need to change a ton of them to fit this format. Later, Rocketmaniac ^RT 00:53, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

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Score by Quarter

Hey sorry about that i was trying to add more to that and accidentally deleted it and did not realize, no hard feelings? Rik (talk) 10:18, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

statistics sections

I noticed you were adding statistics sections to a lot of the 2008 articles. Don't you think its a bit early for that? They won't begin to be populated for another 7 months. Also, not every team used them. Do you plan on updating all of them? Just curious cause that would be a tremendous help.↔NMajdan•talk 03:30, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Personally, I would've waited until closer to the season to add that section, but I'm not gonna make a big deal about it. I do have a problem with adding those sections to all the articles if they are going to remain blank. So hopefully, that will not be the case.↔NMajdan•talk 04:02, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

No, you're right. The information/statistics are out there and can be used on Wikipedia. But, take this from somebody who has updated the stats nearly every week for two seasons on one article, it is a lot of work to update those following every game. There are not many articles that have editors that do that every week, or at all. I do hope more teams do it so, again, any help would be appreciated.↔NMajdan•talk 04:31, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Statesboro

Hey Rocket. Things are good on my end; just keeping busy as usual. I hope y'all can get down here. I'd love to meet again. And it'd be great if she could start a clinic there. I'm sure they're probably desperate for something like that. Reb (talk) 13:24, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Hey Rocket. Things are okay on my end. I've just been pretty lax about editing; I really need to get to work on some things this weekend. And I totally know what you mean about not enough time in the day *L*. Reb (talk) 12:49, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

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Colorado Portal

Hi there ... I would like to help with the Colorado portal. I already fixed a couple of links that referenced South Carolina. Do you have any other do's or do-not's for the portal?

I would specifically like to add more featured articles to rotate around. (I'm assuming the articles already rotate, right?)

Also, I think the Comptroller General is the title given to the national comptroller, right? So, do we need a space for comptroller on the page? I live here, and I don't even know what that does. I don't think it belongs in the "useful" list with Governor and Senators, etc. Thoughts?

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Do you have any thoughts on Talk:Cato_June#Length. There are a couple of editors who have chopped up my articles in the past debating with me about detail.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 21:33, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

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Spaceflight portals

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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WikiProject Human spaceflight activity

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!

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Human spaceflight at 19:11, 17 November 2010 (UTC).

WikiProject Spaceflight activity

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!

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Spaceflight at 18:02, 3 December 2010 (UTC).

WikiProject Spaceflight reboot

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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The Downlink: Issue 0

The Downlink
Your source for news on WikiProject Spaceflight	Issue 0, December 2010
Welcome to The Downlink · Reorganisation of Space WikiProjects · User Activity Checks Welcome to The Downlink 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. Reorganisation of Space WikiProjects 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. User Activity Checks 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 Published by WikiProject Spaceflight, if you have any content you wish to include in future newsletters, please contribute

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The Downlink: Issue 1

The Downlink
Your source for news on WikiProject Spaceflight	Issue 1, January 2011
Welcome to The Downlink · Project News · News from Orbit · Article News · Space Stations and the Push for Featured Topics · Salyut 2 Welcome to The Downlink 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. Project News 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. News from Orbit 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. Article News 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. Editorial – Space Stations and the Push for Featured Topics 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. Selected Article – Salyut 2 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: “ 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. ” 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. Published by WikiProject Spaceflight, if you have any content you wish to include in future newsletters, please contribute

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Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, Rocketmaniac! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

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The Downlink: Issue 2

The Downlink
Your source for news on WikiProject Spaceflight	Issue 2, February 2011
Project News · News from Orbit · Article News · The Charts · Yuri Gagarin Project News 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 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) was discussed, and design work began on a replacement. Template:Rocket specifications-all (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) was nominated for deletion and subsequently kept due to extant substitutions, however it was noted that the template had been deprecated by 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. News from orbit 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. Article news 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. The Charts 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. № Article Movement 1 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster ↑14 (15) 2 Richard Branson ↑5 (7) 3 Neil Armstrong ↑2 (5) 4 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster ↑16 (20) 5 Global Positioning System ↓2 (3) 6 Apollo 11 ↑2 (8) 7 Satellite ↑4 (11) 8 Space Shuttle Challenger ↑42 (50) 9 Apollo 13 ↓3 (6) 10 NASA ↓1 (9) 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). Selected Article: Yuri Gagarin 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: “ 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. ” 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. Published by WikiProject Spaceflight, if you have any content you wish to include in future newsletters, please contribute

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The Downlink: Issue 3

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Your source for news on WikiProject Spaceflight	Issue 3, March 2011
Project News News from Orbit Article News Direction of the Project The Charts Europa Project News 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. News from orbit 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. Article news 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 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | 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. Editorial: Direction of the Project 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! :-) The Charts 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. № Article Movement 1 Satellite ↑6 (7) 2 Space Shuttle ↑11 (13) 3 NASA ↑7 (10) 4 Neil Armstrong ↓1 (4) 5 Apollo 13 ↑4 (9) 6 Global Positioning System ↓1 (5) 7 International Space Station ↑5 (12) 8 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster ↓7 (1) 9 Apollo 11 ↓3 (6) 10 STS-133 ↑78 (88) 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). Selected Article: Europa 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: “ 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. ” 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. Published by WikiProject Spaceflight, if you have any content you wish to include in future newsletters, please contribute

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File:F18Bfamilywebblueangel.jpg

Re File:F18Bfamilywebblueangel.jpg: since the source image is on the Commons, you should upload your derivative version there as well and give it a proper licence tag. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 20:16, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Is it really so difficult? It is not rocket science. Go to commons:commons:upload and select the "derivative work of one or several files from Commons" option. But feel free to come back if you still cannot manage it. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 16:19, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Ok, I will work on it. thank you for your time...... Rocketmaniac ^RT 16:23, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Come join the Central & North Georgia Task Forces!

Come add your name to the proposed Central & North Georgia Task Forces at Wikipedia:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/Task forces and work groups. - Presidentman talk·contribs Random Picture of the Day (Talkback) 18:18, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Population Density

Hi Rocketmaniac. I restored the figures on the List of U.S. states by population density‎ to the Census data. I think the confusion is coming from the difference between land area and total area (which includes inland waters such as lakes and rivers). Density calculations typically use land area, which may be causing the slight difference you found. In any event, as you well know Wikipedia only uses data that can be verified and cited to reliable sources. If you truly believe that the US Census Bureau has erred in one of their most basic formulations, I suggest you let them know! Best, epicAdam^(talk) 13:12, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

CFB talk page voting re season records tables, inclusion of polls, etc.

Rocket, I saw your comment on the CFB talk page, and it was apparent that you missed the separate section at the bottom of the page where these issues are presently being voted upon to determine consensus going forward. Your opinions are welcome and your votes on these issues are hereby solicited. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 17:42, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

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Catching up

Hey Rocket, how's it going? I'm back on Wikipedia after a very long hiatus and just thought I'd check in. Reb (talk) 15:54, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Hey, congrats on getting married! How are you liking Utah? Reb (talk) 18:00, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Things have been good here. Just keeping busy with my county's 100 year anniversary (2014), genealogy research, and working with the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Glad to be back at Wiki. I've been itching to work on a few local articles. Reb (talk) 21:41, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

I've got about 13,000 names so far. All four of the main branches are related, it seems. One of the four has connections in the other three branches. It's very cool. Reb (talk) 23:39, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

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