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Wikiproject Astronomical objects
(WP:ASTRO)

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 /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.

Goals

  1. To bring all astronomical object articles up to featured or good standard. The most important articles are listed at /Worklist.
  2. ...while ensuring that basic information is presented in uniform, clear and aesthetic infoboxes.

Structure

A series of infobox templates have been designed for all types of astronomical objects. Details can be found here.

Projects

A list of the most important astronomical object topics is maintained at /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?.

You can also join the Astronomy Collaboration of the Week. Each week, an article from either the Worklist or another astronomy-related article, is nominated and selected to be the collaboration of the week. This article is then improved by participating wikipedians to at least good-article or featured-article status.

Participants

In alphabetical order:

  • 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.
  • Chaos syndrome. Currently working on bringing articles on exoplanets and exoplanet host stars to Good article status.
  • 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-related articles, especially with diagrams and solid references (but offering arXiv preprints).
  • 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).
  • 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!
  • Merovingian {T C @} Working on "minor planets" (a.k.a. asteroids) here and there.
  • Nebular110 I don't know how I'm going to find the time but I would love to help.
  • Nicholas. I'm here too.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Add {{User ASTRO}} to your userpage to add this userbox -

This user is a member of WikiProject Astronomical objects.


Templates

Astronomical object articles need an infobox to show basic data about them. A complete list of the templates to be used is at /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.

Other useful templates:


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Project Active members Assess Active
Astronomy WikiProjects
Astronomy 188 Yes Yes
Astronomical objects 31 No Yes
Constellations (task force) 7 No No
Cosmology (task force) <30 No No
Eclipses 11 No Yes
Solar System WikiProjects
Solar System 38 Yes Yes
Jupiter (task force) 3 No Yes
Mars 11 Yes Yes
Moon 17 Yes Partial
Spaceflight WikiProjects
Spaceflight 91 Yes Yes
Adopt an astronaut (working group) >5 No Yes
Aerospace biography (task force) <9 No No
ESA (task force) 4 Yes No
Space stations (working group) 2 No No
Timeline of spaceflight (working group) 8 No Partial
Data as of 24 October 2020
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Astronomy Collaboration of the Week

Categories

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.

Resources

Important resources for researching articles:

Archives

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