User talk:Theon~enwiki

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Hi Theon. I was hoping you might be able to help me figure out if someone is perpetrating a hoax on Wikipedia, and if we are perpetrating it to the world. Canadian Space Agency has a list of Canadian astronauts, including Daffyd Williams. Daffyd does not have a NASA biography. Then again, neither does Roberta Bondar. It looks like they don't have profiles of past international astronauts. A google search for "Daffyd Williams" astronaut finds only Wikipedia mirrors and a single McGill University page mcgill_interview_handbook.doc that says that our friend Daffyd flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in April, 1998. Looking at List of space shuttle missions and cross-referencing with NASA's page, it looks like Columbia did not fly at this time. So why is the McGill Faculty of Medicine saying this guy was a mission specialist? I just want you to double check my info before I decide that this guy doesn't exist. moink

Does NASA quote metric values in their original data? It would be much better to get the values from NASA than having to do conversions. I would be happy to look it up if you could give me the page references. In any case, I thought NASA is supposed to be pushing metric now after the MCO disaster. Bobblewik

Thanks for the reference and the tilde tips. Bobblewik Bobblewik 16:22, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Your initiative in creating new articles is admirable, but please don't create pages with just an empty template - they say less than an actual article (It's a little misleading too, a blue link looks like it has information). If you want to make a new page, please provide some rudimentary info first. See Stub article. Thanks! :) Dysprosia 22:09, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Just had a thought - would it be good if the Previous mission / Next mission table was made part of the table to the right? I think that would look better, but it would be a heck of a lot of effort to change them all, sadly... thoughts? Evercat 22:10, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)


 * Well, I did what I envisage it looking like... Evercat 23:08, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

OK, my mistake. The text does need cleaning up though, it can't just be left as it was pasted and copied from another website. -- Graham :) | Talk 22:10, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)


 * Would it be possible for you to construct a boilerplate to put onto articles that you create from that source, stating what the copyright status is? It would help allay confusion with other users in the future. -- Graham  :) | Talk 02:12, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I am not sure I am comfortable listing the various shuttle missions as complete on the Wikiproject Space Missions page as none of them have a mission parameters section and a number have the navigation bar in the wrong place (although that appears to be Evercat's change) If you want to change the template please discuss it at the project with the other project members. Rmhermen 18:08, Mar 30, 2004 (UTC)
 * According to the template:

Mass: (mass) Perigee/Perilune/etc.: (perigee) Apogee/Apolune/etc.: (apogee) Inclination: (inclination) Period: (period) should go in the Parameters section not the box (although orbits does go in box) Rmhermen 18:17, Mar 30, 2004 (UTC)

wikification
Please take the time to wikify all the new articles you've been posting. We can't keep up with you :) Kingturtle 05:27, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)
 * Please review Manual of Style (biographies). It is important that you make your new articles in a particular style. Kingturtle 01:55, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)
 * Why do you ignore my requests? Kingturtle 23:27, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

YOU ARE ANOTHER NAMELESS FACE
WITHOUT EVEN AN EMAIL ADDRESS so what should I take seriously? YOU REQUEST FOR PUBLICATION REFERENCES REGARDING DEISM (and your don't even have an email address) IS REDICULIOUS WHEN THE AUTHORITY IS THE ONE SPEAKING YES "WE ARE ALL EQUAL! JUST SOME MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS", YEAH BUKUNIN SOKRATIS POTEMKIN WRITE IN A PUBLISHED BOOK FIRST BEFORE WE HEAR YOU -FU" Andrew Zito

Airboxes
Hey noticed your link for the air-box. Intially it was just going to be for actual aircraft pages, but its expanded, and Im worried its getting to large in scope. When I put years in avation, that even seemed a strech. Iv been mulling over a more general one with that has more links like aviation history, etc. for all the more non-technical pages- what do you think of this? Maybe we could work on one for space stuff as well (like rockets, missions, etc?). Greyengine5 16:43, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

page layout
Theon, thanks for the (polite) warning on page layout I have referred the discussion to the page layout page you suggested. --BozMo 17:38, 11 May 2004 (UTC) however you may need to get that page to talk to this one WikiProject_Leaders_by_year which seems to imply page layout changes aswell--BozMo 17:49, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

Image repository
Hi, I just learned about your start of an image repository (List of images). Independently of you, I have also started one, with a slightly different idea in mind (Images in Wikipedia). My idea is to include essentially all images in wikipedia, and to have a set of hierarchical galleries that lead from very broad categories to finer categories. I would like to invite you to talk about how this is best done, where to put these articles, and how to incorporate them with your article List of images. See also the discussion on Talk:Images in Wikipedia. Wilke 01:18, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Dog images
Noticed your formatting cleanup in List of images/Dogs; thanks. But I'm wondering why you're moving them out of alphabetical order? Even though it makes maintenance a bit more hairy (change rows every time more photos are added), I think alpha order is ultimately more useful, no? (See also its talk page.) Elf | Talk 16:56, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Edward Gibson
Hi. I've just entered some basic corrections in Edward Gibson. Please note: the title phrase or title word should be highlighted at its first appearance, like this, and one should use complete sentences. The latter is something in the article that still needs work. Michael Hardy 22:16, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Spaceship Earth
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Year 3
Hi. Do you have any reference to back up this edit? anthony &#35686;&#21578; 00:18, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
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Image tagging
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NPOV
Have you looked at any of the these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_magazines#Political_Magazines ? MSTCrow 07:21, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject Years Survey
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Justice.jpg
Love your photo of DOJ! Massysett 04:10, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Image:Sts-45-crew.GIF listed for deletion
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Year page formatting of multiple events
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Space missions WikiProject
Hi, I noticed that you are a member of the Space missions WikiProject. A couple of weeks ago, I proposed that the Space missions and Space travellers projects, which both appear to be inactive be merged into the Human Spaceflight project. Whilst this is being done, the capitalisation of the Human spaceflight project's title would also be corrected (ie. Human Spaceflight → Human spaceflight). The projects are all doing the same/very similar things, and in my opinion, a single, larger, project would be more effective than three smaller, and somewhat inactive projects.. In light of very little response to messages on the project talk pages, I am now sending this message to all members of all three projects, inviting them to discuss the proposal on the Human Spaceflight project's talk page. I would appreciate your opinion on this. Thanks. -- GW_SimulationsUser Page 21:57, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:NASA
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==== Hi! You might be interested in the discussion at. Thank you. Colds7ream (talk) 22:30, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
Hello Theon! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 18 of the articles that you created  are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the unreferencedBLP tag. Here is the list:


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11. Sergei Krikalyov 12. Richard Mastracchio 13. John L. Phillips 14. Anatoly Solovyev 15. Gennadi Strekalov 16. Mikhail Tyurin 17. Yury Usachov 18. Fyodor Yurchikhin

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 04:43, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

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Spaceflight portals
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Proposed deletion of Gary Payton (astronaut)


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Plagiarism on STS-47 Article
Hey Theon,

I'm not sure how active you are now on Wikipedia, but it seems back in the day you were very ambitious in creating new Wikipedia articles about spaceflight and space exploration. Some of your articles have gone on to become featured articles on the English Wikipedia, which you partly deserve kudos for. What I take issue with is that when you began these articles, you often just plagiarized information directly from whatever NASA factsheet they had published for an astronaut or a space shuttle mission, for example, and then just left it there without summarizing or paraphrasing, or even including inline citations. Granted, you did most of your work in 2004, and its likely that the rules were much looser and relaxed back then. The thing is, you probably expected someone would change your work after the fact to make the article not contain plagiarism from a public source. In the case of articles like STS-47, that someone never came. I guess I'm just trying to say that times are different now, and while its not your fault that no one changed your work, it is your fault that you plagiarized information and passed it off as Wikipedia's, even if the source makes their information available to the public domain. You probably don't even remember creating the STS-47 article, among others, but if you could try to fix what you plagiarized, that would be great, and I think the people who worked and served on this mission would be grateful too. I'm just a fellow editor, enjoy your day. SpacePod9 (talk) 00:19, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for STS-74
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