User:Tom.Reding/Activity

Doing
Taxonbar related improvements (talk). Fixing typos & WP:MOS things. Fixing various/CS1 maintenance & error categories (random worst offenders). Fixing Category:Pages using deprecated image syntax (some examples). Removing Orphan tags from pages with 3+ incoming mainspace links. General article & citation cleanup of ~56,000 articles in Category:Astronomy via AWB & my good friend, regex. Fixes include, but aren't limited to: Parsing author & editor lists (talk, talk). Standardizing year/date citation usage where appropriate (talk). Standardizing, , , etc. usage. Adding those templates to articles, when appropriate (talk). Trying to standardize use of parsecs first, light-years second, where appropriate (talk, talk). Taking bites out of the WikiProject Astronomy cleanup listing, and perusing WP:Vital articles/Physical sciences#Astronomy. Finding pages with unintentional links to disambiguation pages and fixing the easy ones. Sometimes I'm even on the leaderboard. Finding, adding, and formatting proper references to remove citation needed tags, reference errors, and hidden categories for astronomy articles. Sometimes listening to the sound of Wikipedia.

To do
Standardize MOS:DateFormat for astro articles (tbd). Make article stub on A3558. Expand on the differences between galaxy groups and clusters (talk).

Not doing (anymore)
Converting IUCNs & bare-cites/refs to Cite journal (talk, talk, talk) (satisfying examples) &mdash; need more consensus one way or the other. Updating IUCN conservation status (talk) (some examples) &mdash; better & easier to do via Wikidata. Populating the more-difficult-to-find Infobox galaxy cluster statistics (member #, velocity dispersion, ICM temperature, mass) from journal articles for the most popular Abell clusters &mdash; doing so for all would take way too much time and wouldn't be as much benefit.

Never done
Adding to single-redirect-template #REDIRECTs (via Tom.Bot, BRfA denied).

Done (large and/or systematic changes)
Luamatically standardize WP:TOL categories (talk). Populating, correcting, standardizing minor planets' categories & sortkeys from the JPL SBDB, using AWB, C#, and lots o' RegEx. Replaced typographic ligatures like  with plain-text, where appropriate  (talk). Added to all pages with a valid WikiData IUCN ID (talk). Added to multiple-redirect-template #REDIRECTs (talks). AWB Night-mode style.css Category:Minor planets maintenance (talk) Category:Astronomical objects by year of discovery maintenance (talk) Category:Numbered asteroids maintenance (talk) Helped reduce the Cleanup listing for WikiProject Astronomy to the lowest it has ever been as a % of astronomy articles: 11.7% at inception, 31.7% on 18 February 2012, and now 9.2% on 19 May 2015. Done mostly via #REDIRECTing ~12,000 unnotable asteroid stubs (talk). Helped with the CarloscomB cleanup. Extended the "Earth-Moon-thing" size-comparison format to 8 more Solar System objects between the size of Enceladus and Titania (talk). List all most pages in Category:Astronomy (here and here); list of all numbered asteroids here. Resolve ambiguities surrounding cluster designations for many NGC articles. Template related:
 * Purple 8000ff pog.svg Consistify & expand parameters & documentation for the family of templates to remove CS1 errors.
 * Purple 8000ff pog.svg Added many needed parameters to Infobox astro object.
 * Purple 8000ff pog.svg Added documentation to the family of templates.
 * Purple 8000ff pog.svg Added Velocity dispersion, Flux, and Distance (co-moving) parameters to infobox galaxy cluster.
 * Purple 8000ff pog.svg Add notes and helpful wikicode to all Infobox galaxy cluster parameters for clarity and consistent usage.
 * Purple 8000ff pog.svg Created & transcluded Infobox supercluster to all superclusters.

Abell catalog related:
 * Purple 8000ff pog.svg Turned the boring, ugly, unorganized List of Abell clusters into this very nice table while adding ra, dec, Abell richness, and BM type (inspired by this heroic effort by User:Dr. Submillimeter).
 * Purple 8000ff pog.svg Added Bautz-Morgan type parameter to Infobox galaxy cluster. Populated it and richness class for all List of Abell clusters and Category:Abell objects, respectively.
 * Purple 8000ff pog.svg Created and assigned 6 new categories for/to all Abell cluster richness 0-5.
 * Purple 8000ff pog.svg Corrected all Abell cluster pages with Infobox galaxy to Infobox galaxy cluster.
 * Purple 8000ff pog.svg Made Catalogs variable width so it looks nicer at the bottom of a page (talk), and added it to all Abell object pages.
 * Purple 8000ff pog.svg Populated the easily gotten Infobox galaxy cluster statistics (α, δ, constellation, z, co-moving distance, x-ray flux) from NED for all Abell cluster pages.

Organized the List of galaxy clusters and removed synonymous usage of galaxy clusters with galaxy groups.

AWB feature requests (outdated)

 * Still-open: 2 3 4 5 66 7 9 10 12 13 14 15 17
 * Endorsed (still open): 1616
 * Incorporated into AWB: 1 11Still buggy
 * Workaround/alt solution is sufficient: 8undefined 18undefined

Unorphaned
Arp 107 (via Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies) ★ Calcium monohydride (via Inorganic compounds by element) ★ Coronet cluster (via Corona Australis) ★ Galactic ridge ‎ (via Milky Way) ★ Kilonova (via Gamma-ray burst) ★ Nuclear pasta (via Neutron star) ★ Virgocentric flow (via Virgo Cluster) ★ Virial mass (via Binding energy and Gravitational binding energy)

Pages & templates significantly contributed to (and improved, hopefully)
List of Abell clusters ★ Velocity dispersion ★ Eridanus cluster ★ Astrophysical X-ray source ★ Antlia Cluster ★ Abell 520 ★ Abell 2199 ★ Coma Cluster ★ Kitt Peak National Observatory ★ Virgocentric flow ★ Calcium monohydride Authority control ★ Taxonbar ★ Deg2DMS ★ Infobox astro object ★ Infobox galaxy cluster ★ Infobox globular cluster ★ Infobox star ★ Catalogs ★ Earth radius ★ Jupiter radius

Pages, templates, and categories created
Navseasoncats ★ Category described in year ★ The Banstar Barnstar ★ NASTRO comment ★ Partial minor planet designation ★ Cite compare2 ★ Deg2HMS ★ hub ★ Infobox supercluster ★ Solar luminosity ★ Solar radius ★ Title number ★ Lunar mass ★ Lunar radius ★ Fe/H ★ alpha/Fe ★ WikiCat topicon ★ AC with n elements ★ Aircraft navigation see also ★ Category TOC see also ★ Commons templates see also ★ Title year see also ★ List of minor planets/See also ★ Minor planet link templates/See also Bautz-Morgan classification Abell 133 ★ Abell 262 ★ Abell 478 ★ Abell 665 ★ Abell 907 ★ Abell 1413 ★ Abell 1795 ★ Abell 1991 ★ Abell 2390 NGC 1721 ★ NGC 1723 ★ NGC 1725 ★ NGC 1728 ★ Pages in Category:Astronomy Category:Potentially hazardous asteroids Many, many #REDIRECTs. Mostly capitalization and typo-related, plus ~11,000 minor planet sub/stub #Rs.