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Voyager program was nominated as a Natural sciences good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (August 12, 2024, reviewed version). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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Addition of "Influence on popular culture" section

Hello, I added this section a few days ago and it was deleted subsequently based on the claim that it was inaccurate or not sourced. All of the information I added was sourced, to, for example, relevant wikipedia pages (star trek movies and tv shows) and to a a website which mentioned the Voyager program popping up in an episode of the X files. If you (BillCat) have any specific information concerning errors in the additions I made, please feel free to tell me what they are and I can address. I feel that the program's influence on popular culture is an important piece of the program's history and deserves a section on this page. It's not just another NASA mission, it's a seminal development in 20th century astronomy and one of the defining moments of the 20th century. Dorfbier (talk) 14:56, 18 December 2021 (UTC) Dorfbier[reply]

The Astronomy.com article cited, How the Voyager missions rippled through pop culture, is interesting, however it doesn't support most of your content. The source makes no mention of "The Changeling" episode (which involved a space probe called NOMAD); the source discusses Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Editors need to summarize sources accurately. Also, using Wikipedia articles as sources is never allowed.

I'm removing the section because it is inadequately sourced. If you get consensus to include influence on popular culture using the Astronomy.com source or additional sources, it can then be added. Schazjmd (talk) 15:29, 18 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal

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The result of this discussion was merge . Викидим (talk) 04:35, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I propose to merge Mariner Jupiter-Saturn into this article. Same team, same goal, same spacecrafts. It is just a new name, we traditionally do not create separate articles in cases of such clear continuity. Size of this article is within acceptable limits. Викидим (talk) 03:34, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support: MJS article explains nothing but a brief period of its name and how it had to be changed. Pretty much all of this content can be moved to Voyager article's history section. A redirect can be made from the MJS towards Voyager. Footy2000♡; 05:09, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support, it belongs to the History section. Artem.G (talk) 06:23, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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GA Review

Unsuccessful. Z1720 (talk) 01:48, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Voyager program/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: The Herald (talk · contribs) 09:16, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Z1720 (talk · contribs) 01:48, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, I am going to have to quick-fail this article, due to a number of concerns that I have:

There are numerous uncited statements, including entire paragraphs. This is especially evident in the "Computers and data processing" and "Scientific instruments" sections. Also, the "Spacecraft design" talks about the diagram, but this information needs to be cited with inline citations, instead of referring to the image.
There are many one-sentence paragraphs, which are not recommended for articles, as too many of them are difficult to read. Instead, merge this information with other paragraphs.
I suggest using the sources listed in "Further reading", or remove them altogether.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ping me or message me on my talk page. I will run the bot to fail this GAN momentarily. Z1720 (talk) 01:48, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.