User talk:Vtaber02

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Sorry for the delay but we are all volunteers with time pressures.

I think your article User:Vtaber02/Hypersizer is a very good start. It mostly needs to have Wikilinks and citations filled in. For example, the first time any acronym is used, spell it out first and link to the article about it using square brackets like that. Citations should have all information about them (titles, dates, publishers, etc.) included to avoid link rot. If you just have a raw URL, in a year or two when the site re-orgs its pages the link gets broken and is hard t find otherwise. I prefer to use the Cite web template and its ilk. I will take the liberty of doing a few of these on your draft as examples. Thanks for any contributions. W Nowicki (talk) 21:42, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Another thing I noticed is that according to our article, the National Aerospace Plane was the X-30, not X-50. The source does not give the number. I would also say the article should mention the person by name, as long as it is not using promotional language, e.g. "world-renowed award-winning famous expert..." On the other hand, avoid dated expressions like "currently" or " recent years" since with any luck this article will stick around for many years, and thus that lanugage will be out of date when a reader reads it. Finally I would say some other details can probably be removed, especially when unsourced. Specific technical terms without articles will mean nothing to most readers, and potential customers can go to the web site and product literature for details. The historical narrative and fitting into context is the important thing here. The other thing we can do is upload a small logo under fair use rationale. However, that needs to be coordinated with publishing the article, which might take a little more time. W Nowicki (talk) 22:38, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

So its been another week: should we try publishing it? Or do you have more to add? W Nowicki (talk) 21:20, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

I've applied your suggestions as to the references and rephrased the first sentence under "Uses" so I think it's ready if you do. Please go ahead and create it. Vtaber02 (talk) 15:27, 22 August 2011 (UTC)


 * OK I will assume the X-50 was a typo as noted above. The other one seems to be "Gulfstream Learjet 85". The source just mentions "Bombardier’s LearJet", whichis the company that makes it, so I will change that. More de-jargoning needs to be done, such as giving a clue what FEA is, presumably not the Fair Employment Act for example. Will also work on decorating a bit and nominating for the DYK. W Nowicki (talk) 20:06, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Yes, finite element analysis appears under history and is linked, though I suppose (FEA) should appear after it. Can I make a change that small or should I remain hands off? Vtaber02 (talk) 20:33, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Oh, that kind of thing is not a problem. I just put it in parens now though, you are right, we refer to FEA later on. Also please do another pass to just make sure I did not introduce any errors. Some of the other technical terms in the history section might also need wikilinks. I did a little work on linking it into other articles so it does get declared an "orphan". For example, redoing your attempt in List of finite element software packages now that the link will not be red. Just avoid language like "famous award winning leading brand of solution for the professional...." I do see we triggered the WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/hypersizer.com but so far no complaints from them. Perhaps the facebook page should go. Other editors might have different ideas. W Nowicki (talk) 23:51, 22 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Okay, if you think so. It's not like the facebook page is a reference for anything.  Nor is it valuable for context and history (like hypersizer.com).  I'm not sure I understand the entry on WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/hypersizer.com.  I see it's automatically generated, but I'm not clear on what the implication is.

Not sure either, since the dates on it are from 2008 and 2009, but I only show your account as being active in May 2011. They seem to be edits of the original article that was deleted. Probably just to give scrutiny to this web site if more links get added. Anyway, I submitted Template:Did you know nominations/HyperSizer. See how that goes. Feel free to watch that page and discuss. W Nowicki (talk) 20:41, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

DYK for HyperSizer
Courcelles 08:04, 28 August 2011 (UTC)