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List of navigational stars[edit]

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A previous version of this list received some support as a FLC in May 2008. At the time, it became clear that some improvements were possible:

addition of interactive star charts
improvement to table sorting
enhancement of table design
addition of explanatory text
addition of citations

I think I've addressed these concerns and am considering nominating it for a second FLC. Any suggestions are welcome. In addition I have two ideas that I'm pondering:

remove the distance column in the table, as it is of no purpose navigationally, and
adding external links to wikisky in the table, as is done in articles about individual stars. This would allow the reader to view the stars in an environment similar to google-maps (example)

Cheers. Haus^Talk 22:25, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

comments by Sandman888

Given that this should be a list of stars it would make sense to have the list immidiately after the background section.

Moved.

Please don't add backgrond-colours to any of the table headers

Removed.

why is "Common Name" uppercase?

Changed.

"Key to the Star charts" has an odd vertical line in the table?

Question: I looked again with chrome, firefox, and IE — couldn't get it to happen for me. What browser are you using?

this entry "UPPERCASE Constellation name " is a little confusing and perhaps writing it in prose instead could explain it better.

I agree this is a little iffy, but am not sure removing it is the best solution. For the time being, I've changed it to "UPPERCASE TEXT." In the prose, there is a line "In the star charts, constellations are labelled with capital letters and indicated by dotted lines collecting their stars."

remove some of the numerous references to [1], at the end of a section is fine if it refs all of it.

the image description in the lede is not the best in the world as it's not only a sextant. How about "the use of sextants to navigate by the stars began in...."

I've reworded and changed the link from sextant to sextant observations.

image in background section doesn't add a lot as is (i.e. without clicking it). consider getting rid of it.

Mixed feelings on this one — I think I'll see what happens at FLC.

Cheerio, Sandman888 (talk) 19:34, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for taking a look at it. Haus^Talk 20:02, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]