Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Nicholas Mayall/archive1

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From Fifelfoo for the start, repasted to clear mainpage for FAC bloat. Fifelfoo (talk) 00:24, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Dates inconsistent. YYYY-MM-DD, Month DD, YYYY, etc.  Please pick one style for the Bibs, References, Notes, and stick to it?
 * Please check the capitalisation of this journal, "Lick Observatory bulletin"
 * Link in this citation failed to display correctly due to Square brackets in title?, "Mayall, Nicholas U. (1939). "The occurrence of λ 3727 [O II in the spectra of extragalactic nebulae]". Lick Observatory bulletin 19 (497): 33–9."
 * Please cite title of journal in full, as is your style, "Mayall, Nicholas U.; Lindblad, Per Olef (October 1970). "Mean rotational velocities of 56 galaxies". Astron. Astrophys 8: 364–74."
 * Short cite does not match bibliography line: Associated Press 1933; please cite Authors for your newspaper articles in bibliography as AP wire if you're going to short cite to AP.
 * I'm unclean on what this request is asking for. When AP is used, there is no author listed for the newspaper article. WilliamKF (talk) 18:40, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Then where did the name Associated Press come from for your short citation? And why isn't AP listed as the author in the bibliography? Fifelfoo (talk) 00:24, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Multiple author style differs in shortcites (" Nicholson & Mayall 1930") from Bibliography (Last ; First).
 * Isn't this just a function of the templates? I'm using citation and harvnb templates, aren't those meant to be used together? WilliamKF (talk) 18:43, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Template:Harvard citation indicates you're right, but its gungy in the extreme. Can you report this bug to the appropriate citation templates? Fifelfoo (talk) 00:24, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Does Crotts have a first name? Bouchet, P.; Lawrence, S.; Crotts; Heathcote, S. (March 2000), "A Tip/Tilt System for the Blanco Telescope"
 * Please cite Abt 1993 correctly (the link even says how, "Nicholas U. Mayall (1906-1993) (1Mar93) (from the Director's Office, NOAO Newsletter No. 33, 1 March 1993)")
 * Please generally indicate Staff, Wire service, or named author for newspaper articles, attributing questionable attributions of authorship. Your shortcites claim authors (AP, NYT Staff) where your bibliography lacks authorial information
 * Please indicate that this, "Eglin, Tom (1973), Dr. Nicholas U. Mayall, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, retrieved 2009-10-24" is the photograph that you're citing, and not the webpage?
 * I'm citing both the photo and more specifically the caption of the photo. Not sure what to do here? WilliamKF (talk) 19:26, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Perhaps (Photograph and caption), or Photograph and caption: [work title].? Fifelfoo (talk) 00:24, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * There's a problem with this citation, is the work title the same as the series title? "Osterbrock, Donald E. (1996), "Nicholas Ulrich Mayall, May 9, 1906 – January 5, 1993" (PDF), Biographical Memoirs, Biographical Memoirs, 69, Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, pp. 189–213, ISBN 0-309-05346-3, retrieved 2009-09-12"
 * Note it is both a series and the title of the work is the series. Dropped series and now only have title. WilliamKF (talk) 19:41, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Book publisher locations. You have a choice: Supply no location data (bad), supply location data for non-University presses and University presses with ambiguous locations (to fix, supply location for "Wilson, Ray N. (2004), Reflecting Telescope Optics: Basic design theory and its historical development, Astronomy and astrophysics library; Volume 1 of Reflecting Telescope Optics, 1, Springer, ISBN 9783540401063"), supply publication locations for all.Fifelfoo (talk) 04:08, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Fixed by adding Berlin for the above. Are more needed?  WilliamKF (talk) 19:51, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
 * It was just one I believe. Fifelfoo (talk) 00:24, 23 November 2009 (UTC)