Template:Did you know nominations/Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard


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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 23:37, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard

 * ... that over half a million glass photographic plates of the night sky are being scanned by the Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard project?
 * ALT1:... that the Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard project is digitizing over 500,000 astrophotographs archived by the Harvard College Observatory?
 * Reviewed: Hampton Roads Conference, NGC 5585.

Moved to mainspace by Doctree (talk). Self nominated at 19:00, 13 November 2014 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg New enough (moved to mainspace), long enough, and free of most policy issues (the article is neutral and generally very well cited). One problem, however, is that the list of project goals is copied directly from a DASCH project website. Unless the DASCH source is in the public domain (which does not appear to be the case), this section will need to be rewritten to avoid violating copyright (as well as close paraphrasing). Also, the latter two paragraphs of the "Plate imaging" section (beginning with "As of October 2014, over 78,000 plates have been scanned") do not seem to be substantiated by their footnote (which is number 6). On the brighter side, both the hook and the alternate are short enough, cited in the article, and certainly interesting. Furthermore, QPQ has been done, and the nominator has reviewed a second DYK nomination to help reduce the backlog, which is greatly appreciated. Once the aforementioned copyright and footnote citation issues are addressed, I'll be happy to pass this nomination. Michael Barera (talk) 19:09, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
 * The goals of the DASCH project are directly quoted from and attributed to the project web page. I reworded the lead-in to make it more clear that it is a quote per WP:QUOTE and WP:MOSQUOTE.  Some more wikilinks were also added.  The quote was and is attributed.  Because of the scientific nature of the project, the same words would have to be used to accurately describe the goals in a paraphrase.  The result would likely end up close paraphrasing.  In my opinion, the blockquote of the goals maintains accuracy without impinging on the intellectual property rights of the project team members.  I think that the quote of the detailed goals is important to establish context for all who read the article beyond the lede.  I also think that WP:FAIRUSE applies to the goal statements.  They aren't "creative" in the usual sense; paraphrasing would create a less concise and accurate statement.  The goals are openly published on the project website.  The DASCH project and Harvard University won't be harmed financially or otherwise by inclusion in the article.  There is no commercial value to the statement of goals.  The statement of goals is only a small part of the overall project and of the project's website.
 * Since DASCH is an ongoing project, the numbers are changing quickly. I used the As of template and the numbers were supported by the citation when I wrote the article text.  The same source now says over 80k plates imaged, specifically, "We scanned our 80,000th plate on Nov 13, 2014".  When I looked a few minutes ago, the project home page states, "Current Status: 82,451 Plates Scanned".  If more imaging work was done over this weekend, the number may have changed by the time we look again on Monday.  I updated the numbers and the as of date.  As stated on the article's talk page, more can be written now.  I will check the article regularly to update things and eventually expand it if others don't do so while I work on a couple of other projects.  For now, the as of dates give a snapshot of the project progress.  The links will allow interested readers to visit the project website pages for the most up-to-date numbers. DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·ʇuoɔ) WER 04:10, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg You have adequately addressed my concerns, DocTree. I think that this nomination is now good to go. Nice work on the article! Michael Barera (talk) 06:03, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg Could you point me to the inline cite for the hook fact? Yoninah (talk) 21:27, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Ooops, mea culpa. I've become too knowledgeable of the subject.  Added citation and hook fact to the first paragraph of the lede.  The project site doesn't even state the hook facts directly but others did/do. DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·ʇuoɔ) WER 22:43, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Thank you. Hook ref verified and cited inline. Good to go. Yoninah (talk) 23:51, 7 December 2014 (UTC)