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World Year of Physics 2005

I've been working on this article for a while, but I thought it would benefit from more eyes on it, especially from a broad audience. Since this is an ongoing thing all year - not to mention a really big anniversary in physics - I have been rather hoping that it could make it to featured quality before the end of the year, but for now I'm not really sure exactly what it needs to get there. --Laura Scudder | Talk 03:59, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Well if it's any consolation, the article looks better developed than the International Geophysical Year page, that saw the launch of Sputnik 1 among other events. There doesn't appear to be much material you can add really, at least not yet. You could probably have a little more detail on the WYoP approval.[1] It also looks like they are planning a webcast as the closing event.[2] Perhaps you could have a section at the end mentioning past scientific celebrations such as the IGY? — RJH 15:26, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Probably the most significant area for expansion would be the Selected celebrations, I know that Australia is having events, and other countires are too; mabye you could break it down by events in the regions of the world, north america, south america, oceania, afrcia (south africa is releasing a stamp) etc, page has links to all the countries with events. There are also some big conferences that could be mentioned like the World Conference on Physics and Sustainable Development. The article could also describe how 2005 actaully came to be the year of physics in a bit more depth [3] --nixie 03:56, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

That's always been it's weak point, mostly due to the daunting task of picking out events to highlight from the rather long list, so what's there hasn't been systematically sought out. Trying to get some better geographic coverage is a good idea, and I'll add that conference, too. --Laura Scudder | Talk 05:37, 18 August 2005 (UTC)