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Proxima Centauri b

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 * Result: Kept. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 06:23, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

So, a few weeks ago I installed a major rewrite of this article and there are later edits too. I should have done this GAR earlier, since the article is now completely different from the time at which it passed GAN I think the new version should be checked against the GA criteria. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:40, 13 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi thanks for your work on this article. I'm the original reviewer that passed this article in its previous review. I'm happy to take a look this again for the reassessment if that would be desirable. I'll likely be able to put some time in this weekend. ♫CheChe♫ talk 11:36, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I that could work. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 11:52, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Going by this someone else will have to do the re-review. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 17:31, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Femke (talk) 19:50, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. Article is in a good shape, everything is cited, no cleanup templates. If it looks like GA, it is GA. Artem.G (talk) 16:29, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment Keep. Very close to GA, but there are a few places where the prose is not quite clear
 * The paragraph starting with "Climate models including"
 * "Planets partially or wholly covered with ice" -> I thought the article is about a single planet
 * Fixed. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 11:27, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * The additional factors sentence could be split in two/three/four
 * Listified this sentence; I don't think an arbitrary split works from a good writing perspective but it is overlong. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 11:27, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Proxima Centauri b receives about 10-60 times as much of this radiation as Earth[50] with a particular increase in the X-rays[69] and might have received even more in the past,[70] adding up to 7-16 times as much cumulative XUV radiation than Earth -> can be split too. The mid-sentence cites make it difficult to parse
 * Rewrote this. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 11:27, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * (I don't think it's a GA criteria, but the diagrams section could be better integrated into the article).
 * Restructured the image use here. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 11:27, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't understand: "From Proxima Centauri b, Alpha Centauri would be considerably brighter than Venus is from Earth". Proxima Centauri b is a part of Alpha Centauri, so comparing it with Venus/Earth makes little sense I would think. Femke (talk) 16:37, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I would think most people will read "Alpha Centauri" as the star, not the entire system. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 17:22, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Hmm.. I was just going off wikilinks here, having no prior knowledge. Googling "alpha centauri" leads only to pages about the star system, rather than an individual star. Could you clarify which star is meant? Femke (talk) 17:31, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I think that most people won't care about the distinction star-star system. In my experience, when you are talking about a star system you aren't part of star and star system aren't distinguished. If you are part of the system then you do distinguish (Sun vs. Solar System) Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:24, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I assume you're right, but what's the harm in changing it to "Proxima Centauri" for those who are unaware of such a convention? Femke (talk) 08:38, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't think that would make it any clearer, and we are talking about the planet not the star. And the convention above is also used in lay sources. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 08:49, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Sorry to be a pain, but I still don't understand the sentence. In my reading it can mean either: "From the planet Proxima Centauri b, the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri ..." Or From the planet Proxima Centauri b, the binary stars Alpha Centauri AB ..". I think if you add "the binary stars of Alpha Centauri", the AB can be omitted. Femke (talk) 08:56, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Put a variant of that in. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:20, 9 April 2022 (UTC)