User talk:WDGraham/December 2014

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Orion (spacecraft)
WD, would you be willing to take a quick look at the B-levelness, or not, of Orion (spacecraft).

I'm agnostic at present, and have not looked against the criteria. But I did just revert another editor who moved it from C to B, leaving no edit comment, and leaving several of the Spaceflight B-level criteria still marked as "no" on the Talk page.

Cheers. N2e (talk) 17:34, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ - looks like it needs quite a bit of work. --W. D.  Graham  10:06, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

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Template:Launching and Category:Current spaceflights
Hi; since you commented at Categories for discussion/Log/2009 March 23, you may be interested in the discussion at Template talk:Launching concerning the categories emitted by. -- Red rose64 (talk) 17:17, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Seasonal Greets!

 * Thanks --W. D.  Graham  20:35, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Timeline of first orb'l launches by country: South Korea issue
Good afternoon.

I was planning to make an edit to the page, but I noticed the issue is heavily disputed and sought your opinion on how I should act. More specifically, for what I can see on the talk page it seemed as if the latest conversation concluded that South Korea was to remain on the list, and I quote your final word: 'so the article should retain the unnumbered entry for now.' That was April. There were two other mentions of South Korea in the talk section after that - one in September and an answer in December - and the latest comment(December) concluded that there was 'no consensus for moving (see above).' For this, I can only conclude that the latest agreement was to not move South Korea from the list (whether or not it should be numbered in the ranks is another matter I would not discuss at the present time).

Yet, on the wiki page itself it is written ' please do not add South Korea, see talk page for details as to why not '. Was there a larger discussion I miss, or is this a mere discrepancy and South Korea should be listed unmarked? Sincerely, (Andrea2016228 (talk) 05:21, 24 December 2014 (UTC))
 * While I think there was a consensus against presenting South Korea as launch-capable (i.e. with a number against it), there was no consensus on the issue of listing it with a caveat and without a number versus not listing at all. Because of that the article defaulted back to its previous state, without South Korea in the list at all. It may be useful to have a further discussion on the matter. --W. D.  Graham  10:07, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Should I make a new section on the Talk page then? Would there be anyone interested upon this issue, though?(Andrea2016228 (talk) 10:22, 24 December 2014 (UTC))
 * That's up to you. I'm fairly ambivalent on whether it should be in the table or not (although I still strongly oppose numbering it). --W. D.  Graham  20:35, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

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 * I suspect I will need to rewrite a good portion of the bot's code to accommodate this but I will look to implement this as those parts are rewritten anyway. How does the WikiData API compare to the regular MediaWiki API? --W. D.  Graham  20:35, 27 December 2014 (UTC)