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Cydonia Mensae
Hi there. I quite like what you've done with the Cydonia Mensae article, but I've a query. My understanding was that the region was larger than just the area in which the infamous mesas occur, but the text now implies that it's all about the mesas (e.g. the article has gone from claiming 18 Viking photographs of the mesas to 18 photographs of the whole region). Is that correct? I hadn't really thought about how Cydonia Mensae was defined before, and I can't find much that's specific enough over at NASA. Cheers, --P LUMBAGO 09:32, 16 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I was wondering similar things. I suspect the article was originally called 'Cydonia' and got changed to 'Cydonia Mensae' for some reason. Looking at the USGS maps, it seems to me that the Face on Mars might even be in Cydonia Colles rather than Cydonia Mensae. It would probably be a good idea to change the article title back to 'Cydonia' given this ambiguity. 12:37, 16 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi again. Nice work on identifying the Cydonia subregions.  And thanks for providing sources for them - those are pretty useful more generally.  Incidentally, I notice that you moved the article to a new name - I think that's OK in this particular case, but usually it's worth asking about doing that first on the article's discussion page.  There are sometimes good, if obscure, reasons for why an article has a particular oblique name.  Cheers, --P LUMBAGO  17:31, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * P.S. Your signature didn't work above - have a look at WP:SIGNATURE.


 * Thanks for your help! Arsia Mons (talk) 19:23, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Monoceros
You made a good edit to Monoceros here when you deleted a notorious "winter" reference. It's good to see that some Wikipedians recognise that many constellations are visible on both sides of the equator, and thus are not tied to the seasons of a particular hemisphere. For more information, see: Countering systemic_bias.

However, you did introduce a small error of your own (which I have since corrected) when you stated that the constellation was a northern constellation. Because Monoceros crosses the celestial equator, it is not by definition a northern constellation.

Keep up the good work. &mdash; B.D.Mills  (T, C) 22:24, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Ursa Major / Big Dipper
Although one is urged to be "bold" in one's edits, performing unauthorized mergers is NOT within bounds. I have restored the "Big Dipper" article that I wrote and have been maintaining. As you may have noticed "Big Dipper/Plough" was the larger and more referred to article. On the other hand, Ursa Major diserves its own article.

The page WAS correctly set up with the reference to "Big Dipper" article in italics.

There is a proper procedure to go through for merging articles.

I am not angry, merely startled. Now that I've explained things, I will be perfectly happy to work with you regarding what you'd like to see improved on the UMa article; I am on the Constellations Task Force. Regards. B00P (talk) 01:25, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

File:NurembergHalley.jpg
I have a peer review of Halley's Comet that's asking for info vis a vis this image. Specifically, he said: ''You may be asked where in the Nuremberg Chronicle the image Image:NurembergHalley.jpg appears and which edition this refers to. If you could add a link to the exact page, that would be helpful.'' Do you know any of this information? If so could you add it to the image description page? Thank you.  Serendi pod ous  00:33, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, never mind; I removed it, there were too many images. Sorry about that.  Serendi pod ous  00:53, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

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Please understand the article title policy
Please understand the article title policy for the encyclopedia before "moving" (renaming) any more articles. According to the logs, nearly none of the titles that you've changed are the current title today.

Because they did not conform to policy.

"The Moon in fiction" does not conform to policy. We edit by consensus. If the editors of the article "Moon" are willing to change it to "The Moon", then we change the title of the fiction article about it.

Propose it on the Talk page for the "Moon" article and see what those editors say. (I already know what they'll say, that article is an FA.)

Here is the policy:

"Article titles"

I suggest reading all of it, since the only re-name I've found that you've done that has not been re-done, contravenes the policy against plurals in article titles.

Here's the policy section about articles starting article titles:

WP:TITLEFORMAT

"Do not place definite or indefinite articles (the, a, and an) at the beginning of titles unless they are part of a proper name (e.g. The Old Man and the Sea) or otherwise change the meaning (e.g. The Crown). They are noise words that needlessly lengthen article titles, and interfere with sorting and searching."

The policy is then promulgated under a guideline:

WP:THE

I suggest reading it from top to bottom. Why? Because when you get to the end of the guidance, "Earth, not The Earth" is called out specifically as wrong.

If you really want to change the names of articles here, you need to argue your case at the policy level, not at the level of specific articles. We're doing this by consensus, not necessarily because we agree with it.

When you change one article like "Moon in fiction" to "The Moon in fiction" but not the other article "Moon" to "The Moon" you leave the entire encyclopedia broken. &mdash;Aladdin Sane (talk) 01:12, 27 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Belated apologies for my stupidity. Thank you for the clear explanation. Arsia Mons (talk) 14:34, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

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