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Sorry I'm not sure if this is the correct way to contact you but its regarding the entry for 'Tilly bailey Irvine'. I note you removed information on the history of them because of a potential copyright issue with my This is Hartlepool website which for some reason made the news! I just wanted to confirm that they sought my permission last week and I said it was OK to use information from my site. Feel free to add it back in if you like, I'll leave that up to you. Just to confirm I do own This is Hartlepool Ive added the following confirmation page: [1] . Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.202.128.144 (talk) 20:26, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
We missed you, can you tell?! - Ahunt (talk) 20:27, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks guys! A little over a year ago, I took up a very exciting new job. It's a fast-paced company, and initially, I was taking a lot of work home which effectively absorbed the time I had available for Wikipedia. Since then, things have settled down somewhat, and I'm happy to be able to start contributing again. It's nice to have been missed :) --Rlandmann (talk) 22:20, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well Wikipedia will always be here, there is no deadline apparently!! You might be interested to see how the aircraft engine task force has grown at WP:AETF, I think you created the first project page for us. We even have two featured engine articles that were promoted late last year!!! Cheers Nimbus(Cumulus nimbus floats by) 22:41, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
You disappeared so quickly and throughly we were afraid you'd been kidnapped. Would they kidnap wiki-admins?? Yes, indeed your non-nonsense brand of wiki-sense has been in short supply. - Ahunt (talk) 22:43, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Seriously, I was afraid something terrible had happened. Good to have you back! --Colin Douglas Howell (talk) 23:54, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, good to have you back, RL. Btw, the project (well, Trevor did most of the hard work!) has developed a new specs template, Template:Aircraft specs, to try to replace the 2 older ones by combining the best features of both, along with some new functionality. It's currently in beta testing, and being used in new articles and existing ones that previously had no or little specs. Could you have a look, and see what you think? Thanks again! - BilCat (talk) 02:33, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Welcome back!83.138.172.72 (talk) 02:55, 10 February 2010 (UTC) - must check I'm logged in before signing!Petebutt (talk) 02:57, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I have replied to your question on my talk page, to keep it all in one place. Welcome back from me too! --TraceyR (talk) 12:20, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Just to let you know most of the missing aircraft were added to Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Missing articles which I have been working through. I have been trying to create redirects or articles for them all. I didnt create it and it includes a lot of unbuilt stuff that appears in various templates. I intend just to delete them from the templates and remove them from the list eventually as I am sure most unbuilt projects are not really notable but they have been added to templates to complete sequences! When you finish JAE ! I would welcome your opinion. Thanks. MilborneOne (talk) 22:18, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Understood I was not involved in creating the list just trying to reduce it! I think another user added the stuff from the "wrong" JAE list latter, it also looks like Wikipedia:Aircraft encyclopedia topics has been redirected to the missing list as well just to confuse. I will check back and make sure we dont have any more typos! MilborneOne (talk) 23:12, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
No problem with your approach it has worked well in the past. The problem I have is the missing list has picked up a lot of wierd entries from various lists around wikipedia so I will try and sort them out one at a time! I suspect I will delete the unbuilt projects from the navboxes and the list in time as some have just been filled to complete the sequence. Most unbuilt projects are not notable. MilborneOne (talk) 23:36, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Understood your comments on unbuilt projects we should try and find out what we can and I also agree with your comments on FA/GA process. MilborneOne (talk) 18:18, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Just for info I have started an Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft list at User:MilborneOne/IEA, only one volume so far! MilborneOne (talk) 21:26, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the reply, probably a good idea to expand the miscellaneous sections but I will try and get the bulk of the standard entries done first. Again I will do the designations as is at the moment but understood that some may be good as re-directs. It might take me a while to do all eighteen volumes but I will try and add to it when I can. Hope to have something in place before you finish JAE! MilborneOne (talk) 22:19, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there. Yak-141 is fictitious and was only used for propaganda purposes when registering the records set in '75 white' with the FAI.
I have changed the article to Yak-41, but I shall go back and add Yak-141 to the variantsa list as an explanation inb the articlePetebutt (talk) 16:11, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
French aircraft categories for decades of the 19th century[edit]
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I noticed your recent edit on this article, and I am kinda opposing the move. The project consist of at least 3 models, the 1/2, M01 and M02, so naming it the M02 is a bit specifying the whole thing too much. —Preceding signed comment added by MythSearchertalk 16:28, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for clarifying, I can understand why it was moved now. —Preceding signed comment added by MythSearchertalk 01:00, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Aha!! Have not looked at the site much, happened across it searching for reviews of the Academy 1/48 Bf 109E-3, I am building the kit for reference for a much bigger RC scale version, nice kit so far, beyond my skills to build it properly though!!. Must bookmark that site, seems fairly new? Cheers Nimbus(Cumulus nimbus floats by) 22:06, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi RL,
Thanks for your comments on the Slingsby glider photos I submitted (tried to submit). I must admit that learning how to contribute to Wikipedia is worse than learning Greek - a skill I've yet to master. I did spend several hours trying to understand the various 'help' articles - but it is like trying to knit spaghetti. It may be clear to the people who have been involved with this for many years - but speaking as a lifelong teacher, writer and professional editor - I am not sure I have the energy to get to grips with this. The 'help' notes seem designed to reduce the reader to biting the desktop and screaming: tautologies abound and I have yet to find a single article that says: "this is how you insert an image and place it on the page".
I wanted to respond to your request for a citation - in respect of a source for my assertion that there are still about 30 Skylark 4's in operational condition. The reference is here by the way:
So I looked up citations in 'help' and after 20 minutes wrestling with slippery eels, I am no nearer to being able to insert a citation than when I started. I might add that I have written several theses and am quite familiar with citations and footnotes.
If you can point me to a clear, lucid, exemplified help file that shows me how to contribute I will follow it up. Otherwise I will leave it to you Greek speakers.
The trouble with the Zenair CH 50 (or Mini Z) is that there is very little information about it Jane's 82 has some specs and the fact that it first flew in 1979, but very little else - I'm not clear whether or not any plans were sold, or any more than the first prototype was built. I can't find anything useful anywhere else.Nigel Ish (talk) 21:26, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Glad I could help out there. I find a few pictures really spruce up the aircraft type articles. Now that I have most of mine indexed and accessible it is just a matter of searching to see if I have any when I see a new article listed at Wikipedia:New articles (Aircraft). I found some to add to Nigel's articles on the Zenair CH 200 and 300 as well! - Ahunt (talk) 02:11, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Can you look at this for me please. i can't get the table right. Some entries won't show the lines in between them. Perhaps a suggestion on how to do it better? ThanksPetebutt (talk) 10:16, 29 March 2010 (UTC)oops got the wrong page, this is the one I meantPetebutt (talk) 10:17, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the heads-up. :) I can see advantages and disadvantages to both templates; I'll keep the issues in mind when deciding what to use. - The Bushranger (talk) 16:57, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The majority of the uses of the name Hindenburg in the article already included (and have for a long time) the article "the" before the name (i.e., "the Hindenburg). What I did was conform the few instances where the article was missing by adding "the" in front of the name so that the usage is consistent throughout. Centpacrr (talk) 01:18, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Was this discussed somewhere first? You're hitting a lot of articles. User:LeadSongDogcome howl 13:49, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I have the same question. You've written 'plagiarized from Jane's..'. Is there a proof, that this is from Jane's? At least for the pictures (such as He 72) and for the 3d-drawings I have extreme strong doubts that Jane's has the copyright. --JuergenKlueser (talk) 17:24, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi LeadSongDog -- While doing some other cleanup work I discovered just how extensively we've linked to Aviastar (around 500 links) and that as far as I can tell, they don't actually own a single thing they've put up on the site. Linking there opens us up to accusations of contributory copyright infringement at worst, and is unethical at the very least. I'll leave a note at WP:AIR. --Rlandmann (talk) 20:19, 15 April 2010 (UTC) (above moved here for continuity - User:LeadSongDogcome howl 20:52, 15 April 2010 (UTC))[reply]
One could say the same thing about All the World's Aircraft for that matter. Unless we have some reason to believe that they're infringing copyright it seems rather arbitrary to pick on one reference. What were the sources that you think they infringed? Were they listed in their bibliography? User:LeadSongDogcome howl 20:52, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the heads-up about aviastar (re: delete on my Kawasaki Ki-64 article). Cheers.--Phyllis1753 (talk) 14:31, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Will you kindly share your thoughts on the value of TorrentFreak on the RS Noticeboard. It seems to me to be a rather dubious, low quality source. Wikispan (talk) 16:28, 18 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I thought, since i had the resources i felt, i could use them on Wikipedia, I'm not fussed what you delete or not delete. I thought my article on the AV-8S matador would be useful it wasn't no worries 15:28, 19 April 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lovetravel86 (talk • contribs)
RL, it been a year and a half since you posted this proposal at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aircraft/Archive 22#Naming conventions - US military aircraft. Have you given any consideration to running it again? With the sophistication of the current WP setup, I think "manufacturer-designation-name" is feasible not just for US military aircraft (and CF aircraft too), but across the board (where applicable). I say this because we seem to have many article now that use the "manufacturer-designation-name" format, especially newer ones, and the format's usage on those pages does not seem to have caused any major problems. Just a thought, but I'd support the proposal this time. More than likely, it would have to be grandfathered in over time, with many pages to be moved, but at the least it would allow the "manufacturer-designation-name" to be used without much restiction, rather than being frowned upon as in the curren tconventions. - BilCat (talk) 13:59, 5 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The topic has come up at WT:AIR#Canadian article moves, so I've made a proposal at WT:AIR#Article title proposal. I plan to make a formal proposal at WT:AIR/NC in a few days, and I'll probbly use the introduction from your eariler proposal as background in my new one. If you are able to participate in either or both discussion, your input would be welcome. - BilCat (talk) 15:20, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I noticed in the list of air forces that there wasn't a article for both the polish army and naval forces so i used what little information i had to start them if they already exist i should have checked User:Lovetravel86 10:55, 23 May 2010
You might have noticed that there's a dispute at Talk:Coandă-1910 about whether the aircraft was the first jet. The article is now locked because of edit warring. I see you have been active on the page in the past, so could you jump in again and comment?
Sorry for coming up in the middle of your discussion, but I could not resist to comment. I don't consider at all anything funny at Coanda-1910. And I suppose I'm not the only one, but anybody who cares about Wikipedia in general. The aviation museum in Bucharest did laugh at when I told them to have a look in the English Wikipedia articles about Coanda. Their answer was that Wikipedia is not considered as source for anything as it is completely written by amateurs with their personal views. Rlandmann if you are still interested in this topic please check the discussion in the WP:RSN too.--Lsorin (talk) 20:07, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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,
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!
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!
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
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
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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.
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.
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 ShuttleChallenger 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.
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:
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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 Salyutspace 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.
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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.
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Happy New Year, and all the best to you and yours! (from warm Cuba) Bzuk (talk) 15:48, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
File source problem with File:JunkersJu290.jpg[edit]
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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 ShuttleDiscovery 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.
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
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.
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.
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:
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.
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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.
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