Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects/temp

Wikiproject Astronomical objects
(WP:ASTRO)

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Messier 73, Jewel Box, (Kappa Crucis Cluster),

Astronomy Collaboration of the Week

Mars

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

To bring all astronomical object articles up to featured or good standard.
...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?.

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.
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).
Hezzy
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).
Nicholas. I'm here too.
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.
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.
siafu Working on maintaining the pages on the planets recently.
Worldtraveller 12:17, 5 May 2006 (UTC) Area of expertise is planetary nebulae but I also work on other galactic topics and solar system stuff.[reply]

Templates

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:

{{astronomy-stub}}

Similar WikiProjects

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Related Wikiportals

Portal:Astronomy

Related collaborations

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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.

Useful links

Resources

Important resources for researching articles:

The Astrophysics Data System - [1]