Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects/Sandbox
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Introduction
Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Astronomical objects. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Astronomical_objects/Worklist.
For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.
Scope
The purpose of this WikiProject is to create, improve and standardize articles for astronomical objects. Templates to list basic information, along with guideline recommendations, are given below.
Goal
- To bring all astronomical object articles up to featured or good standard. The most important articles are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Astronomical_objects/Worklist.
- ...while ensuring that basic information is presented in uniform, clear and aesthetic infoboxes.
Rename/deletion/merge status update
To bring people up-to-date on the status of renamings and deletions:
Article renames
- Comet Halley was renamed Halley's Comet.
Article deletions
- W cloud has been deleted.
Article mergers
- A merger has been proposed between Counter-Earth and Antichthon. (Note: The consensus of the discussion in both articles' talk pages is not to merge the articles; the Wikipedia administration needs to close this merge proposal.)
Category renames
- Category:LSB galaxies was renamed Category:Low surface brightness galaxies.
- Category:Ursa Major North group was renamed Category:M109 Group.
Category deletions
- Category:Crater cloud was deleted.
- Category:Local Filament galaxies was nominated for deletion, but no consensus was reached.
- Category:Barred disc galaxies was deleted.
- Category:Giant diffuse galaxies was deleted.
- Category:Quakes has been nominated for deletion. (This is being used to refer to terrestrial and astronomical phenomena together.)
- Category:Extraterrestrial natural disasters has been nominated for deletion.
- Category:W Cloud cluster has been nominated for deletion.
- Category:Ursa Major South group has been nominated for deletion.
- Category:Astrophysicists has been nominated for deletion.
Category mergers
- Category:Multiply-imaged quasars, Category:Double-imaged quasars, and Category:Quadruple-imaged quasars were merged into Category:Gravitationally lensed quasars.
- A proposal to merge Category:M94 group and Category:Canes Venatici Cloud into Category:M94 Group is pending.
Redirect deletions
- The redirect Local Cloud (to Canes Venatici cloud) was deleted.
Projects
A list of the most important astronomical object topics is maintained at Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects/Worklist. Please work on bringing these articles up to good or featured standards! The standards required are given at Wikipedia:What is a featured article? and Wikipedia:What is a good article?.
Collaboration
The Astronomy Collaboration of the Week is currently inactive.
Newest astronomical object articles
Please feel free to list your new Astronomical objects-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the main page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.
Templates
Astronomical object articles need an infobox to show basic data about them. A complete list of the templates to be used is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects/Infoboxes.
When filling in scientific data, you may find the following templates useful:
- {{±|pos|neg}} which produces: +pos−neg used thus: 500 +35−22 km. (Avoid using it in a link, though: it looks bad)
- {{e|n}} which produces:
×10n used thus: 5.97{{e|24}} kg, which gives 5.97×1024 kg.
The DEC and RA templates have been improved to allow the omission of the third argument to result in a less precise location that is useful in the case of galaxy groups. For example:
- {{DEC|degrees|minutes}} which produces: degrees° minutes′ used thus: 23° 47′.
- {{RA|hours|minutes}} which produces: hoursh minutesm used thus: 12h 17m.
Other useful templates:
- {{astro-stub}}
Resources
Important resources for researching articles:
- The Astrophysics Data System - http://arxiv.org/archive/astro-ph
- The Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System - http://www.adsabs.harvard.edu/
- Allows you to seach Astronomy literature titles, abstracts, etc. with some pdf links to full articles. - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html
- ArXiv.org E-Print Archive - http://arxiv.org
- arXiv should only be used if the article is not available on the above Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System as the xiv are preprints which may differ from the final article due to corrections or other final changes.
- search page - http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr/abstract_service.html
- NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) - http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database - http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/Simbad
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Universe
- Filament
- Galaxy Cluster (supercluster, cluster, AGN, etc.)
- Void Region (outside the galaxy)
Galactic
- Types of Galaxy (spiral, dwarf, proto, quasar, etc.)
- Galactic Bulge Region
- Galactic Arm Structure (thin disk, thick disk, etc.)
- Halo Region
Cluster
- Types of Cluster (stellar level)
- Types of Large Stellar/Substellar Cluster (globular, extended globular, open, etc.)
- Types of Small Stellar/Substellar Cluster (trinary, binary, association, moving group, etc.)
- Nebula/Molecular region
- Different types (molecular/nebula clouds, infrared cirrus, SNR, interstellar dust cloud, etc.)
- Substellar/Nonstellar level
- Double Planets, Cluster Planets, binary Brown Dwarfs
- Belts/Clouds (asteroid belt, oort cloud, trojan cluster, stellar dust cloud, etc.)
- Satellites/Rings (satellites, ring system, tenuous gas rings, artificial debree, etc.)
Individual
- Stellar
- Star types (dwarf, subdwarf, halo, variable, WR, TZO, flare star, HVS (ejected/rogue stars) etc.)
- Protostellar (YSO, CTTS, T-Tauri, etc.)
- Stellar Remnants (supernova, GRB, neutrino star, drained star (ie. EF Eri's companion), etc.)
- Substellar
- Brown Dwarf (Halo, Late-M, L, T, theoretical Y, etc.)
- Compact Star/Degenerate (neutron, black hole, q-star, preon, quark, strange, white dwarf, etc.)
- Nonstellar
- Planetary (super, rogue, giant, terrestrial, dwarf, PMO/Planemo, etc.)
- Subplanetary (asteroid, small solar system bodies, comet, etc.)
- Dust & Gas (comet trails, zodiacal, dust rings, hirayama family, etc.)
- Artificial (debree, stations, platforms, space probes, etc.)
Atomic
- the next level would probably be atoms and molecular compounds and so on.
Hope this helps...
| Project | Members | Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Space | 10 | No |
| Astronomy | 2 | No |
| Astronomical objects | 35 | Yes |
| Constellations | 9 | No |
| Martian Geography | 7 | Yes |
| Telescopes | 2 | No |
| Space exploration | 5 | Yes |
| Spacecraft | 0 | No |
| Launch vehicles | 6 | No |
| Mars Spacecraft | 9 | No |
| Space missions | 23 | No |
| Space travellers | 2 | No |
| Unmanned space missions | 9 | No |
| Lists of spaceflights by year | 4 | No |
| Space Colonization | 11 | No |
| Moon | 4 | No |
Member count current as of 3 November 2006.
- WikiProjects - Directory of Space-related WikiProjects
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- Abyssoft (talk) I've principly been focusing on Asteroids (SSSBs) and trying to gather, update information and the displayed templates for them. I've also participated in the 'dwarf planet' debates.
- AMcWhatever I can do to help...
- Ardric47 I am by now probably a de facto minor participant, having done some lists and things with sourcing.
- Awolf002. Count me in! Up to now I just worked on biographies (crater eponyms) and this project looks good.
- BlytheG. As a high school student who plans to be an astonomer and science author, this is a great opportunity to both improve my range of knowledge as well as Wikipedia's info.
- B00P Working on some non-profound "Beginner" stuff.
- Branson03
- Chaos syndrome. Taking an extended break.
- Ckatz helping out where I can!
- Eric Forste (talk) I feel as if this is the first wikiproject I've joined, so I'm gonna sign my name to it. All y'all that got this thing started up could go ahead and sign yours above mine (or we could just follow the alphabetical convention). Right now I'm working in a sandbox on adding the infobox to Proteus and then I'll be working on Nereid if no one beats me to it.
- Eurocommuter Contributing to trans-Neptunian and irregular satellites-related articles with diagrams and references.
- Fournax So much to choose from. I think I'll start on stars.
- GW_Simulations|User Page | Talk | Contribs | E-mail
- George J. Bendo I am working on writing entries for individual nearby galaxies, with particular emphasis on galaxies from the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey. (I also get to cite my own work.)
- Hurricane Devon ( Talk ) I'll do galaxies and exoplanets.
- JamesHoadley (talk) It seems I'm helping out at the moment, so I may as well put my name down. Mostly I work on solar system planets and moons, deep sky stuff (nebulae, galaxies) and spacecraft (not in this topic).
- Jim Cornmell (talk) I'd like to help from the amateur astronomers perspective, as and when I can.
- Jyril. I've been creating asteroid and extrasolar planet articles for a long time. (Why I haven't signed earlier?)
- Legolost I'm good with astronomy, so count me in!
- Luka Krstulović, greetings from Croatia! I wasn't really working on Astronomical objects articles here, but I love astronomy, and hope I could help you with what's needed.
- Merovingian {T C @} Working on "minor planets" (a.k.a. asteroids) here and there.
- Nbound I'll do what I can to help :)
- Nebular110 I don't know how I'm going to find the time but I would love to help.
- NerdyNSK I have studied some Planetology at the Open University (UK). It's fun.
- Nicholas. I'm here too.
- Orionist. I'm in! sky is the limit!
- Riffsyphon1024, Been working on Mars features but can help here also.
- RJH (talk). Finished up the lunar craters; now working on propagating starbox template and some of the crater eponym bios.
- Rursus. I'll see what I can do, when I discover some knowledge missing ... Otherwise I'll just proofread here and there...
- shaggy Mostly working on cleaning up articles on trans-Neptunian objects and centaurs. Also, creating articles for notable TNOs and centaurs.
- siafu Working on maintaining the pages on the planets recently.
- Uber nemo (talk). I'll sign my name alphabetically. I am currently working on galaxy stubs and infoboxless articles.
- Urhixidur (talk). I've been banging away at asteroids, mostly.
- Volcanopele (talk). I've mostly worked on Saturnian satellite articles, particularly Enceladus, but I plan on working on any outer solar system satellite article that requires my attention.
- AstroHurricane001(Talk) I'll work on improving and creating articles, as well as adding more info and references.
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