Wikipedia:Peer review/Enceladus (moon)/archive2

Enceladus (moon)
This article was peer reviewed in February 2006 (see: Peer review/Enceladus (moon)/archive1). A number of the requests were answered and since then I have worked to bring the article further into compliance with the standards for a Featured Article. In addition recent results have further helped in filling the article out.

I would like to submit this article as a featured article, however I thought it was wise to have this article go through one more peer review, particularly after these recent major edits, before submitting. So suggestions for work needed to get this article to Featured Article status will be greatly appreciated.

There are two major issues that I would like to acknowledge. First, the article lead does not yet conform to WP:LEAD. Currently, the article lead is one paragraph in length when it should be 3-4. Second, I am a little lost in how best to cite and reference this article. I have both a notes section, containing the numbered citations from the article using the the &lt;ref> element as well a References section, where full citations for journal articles and books used are listed. This does give the appearance that the references are being given twice in these two different sections, Notes and References. This was done after reading the comments of several FACs that failed because the inline citations looked cludgy after including the full citations inline using templates. So the citations inline, displayed in the notes section, are in shortened, Science-journal style, whereas in the references section, full citations using the Cite Journal and Cite Book templates. This reduces the cludge of templated inline citations, but increases article length. So advice on how citations and references should be arranged would be appreciated. --Volcanopele 00:39, 12 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I responsed to Volcanopele's earlier peer review request and all my suggestions were met. I can't honestly think of any further improvements to this article. My only quibble is that the orbit diagram is cluttered with too many overlapping labels, but I'll see if I can fix that myself. Regarding the lead, I think the opening paragraph sums up everything pertinent with admirable brevity and I see no need to expand it into 3 or 4 paragraphs. I think it's time for Volanopele to move on to the next moon... :) The Singing Badger 20:57, 12 April 2006 (UTC)


 * It's a pretty good article. Nice work, but I have a few comments:
 * Some of the text contains time-sensitive information, such as: "Features discovered by the Cassini mission have not yet received names". These are likely to become obsolete at some point, so could you include a date?
 * The "Surface" section includes a brief description of the "title image". This should really be folded into the image caption, as the image may get changed at a later date rendering the text obsolete.
 * I also have a minor issue with how some of the terminology is used. The term "viscous relaxation" is used to describe terrain before the meaning has been explained. The highly technical terms "subparallel grouping", "curvilinear groove", "high phase angles" and "solid-state greenhouse models" are never explained. This makes the article targeted for a well-educated scientific audience, rather than just anybody.
 * On the first mention of the "E ring", you might briefly add that this is a component of the Saturnian ring system.
 * Could you link lithosphere, mass spectrometry, plume, jet, sublimation and magnetospheric?
 * Thank you! &mdash; RJH 18:41, 15 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your comments. In my latest edit, I think I have addressed most of your comments though when I have more time later, I will look for more time sensitive information.  In the time being, I have added a link to As of 2006 in the example you pointed out.  For many of your other comments, I found a way to just use less technical terminology to get around have to add more text to explain the term.  With viscous relaxation, I just deleted the first reference to it so that the new first utterence is right next to the explanation.  I have added links to the requested terms, though there was already a mangetosphere link in the previous paragraphic to "magnetospheric".  To Singing Badger, I don't have access to a machine that runs Celestia today, so if you can create a better graphic, by all means.  I have relatively limited knowledge of the inner workings of that program, so help in improving that graphic would be appreciated.
 * Again thanks for the comments. --Volcanopele 18:02, 17 April 2006 (UTC)