Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Space travellers

WikiProject Space exploration
I've started the Space exploration WikiProject, but there's nothing there right now. My hope is that we will be able impliment the article assessment that's going on at the 1.0 editoral team, as they are trying to Work via Wikiprojects. Over 100 other wikiprojects are already following suit; the articles within the scope of this project could greatly benefit from being apart of this.. thoughts? (discuss here) Mlm42 17:35, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

article assessments
as some of you will have noticed, i've been tagging many article, under the broad topic of Space exploration, with the tag WP Space exploration. this banner has a built in assessment feature.. you can rate the articles quality (out of Stub/Start/B/GA/A/FA), and the importance (Low/Mid/High/Top). The quality has a pretty clear grading scheme, but the importance is much more subjective.

anyway, to do this, for example, add to the Talk page. the banner also has a link to a pretty bot generated list (update once a day, around 10am UTC) of all articles with the Space exploration tag. so feel free to help out, and tag and assess some articles. :) also, when rating an article, you may feel a desire to justify your rating; if so, a comment on the Talk page with the heading "Assessment" seems appropriate. Mlm42 09:17, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Project Directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council is currently in the process of developing a master directory of the existing WikiProjects to replace and update the existing WikiProject Council/Directory. These WikiProjects are of vital importance in helping wikipedia achieve its goal of becoming truly encyclopedic. Please review the following pages:
 * User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory,
 * User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory 2,
 * User:Badbilltucker/Philosophy and religion Directory,
 * User:Badbilltucker/Sports Directory,
 * User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory,
 * User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory/United States, (note: This page will be retitled to more accurately reflect its contents)
 * User:Badbilltucker/History and society directory, and
 * User:Badbilltucker/Science directory

and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope to have the existing directory replaced by the updated and corrected version of the directory above by November 1. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 22:42, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry if you tried to update it before, and the corrections were gone. I have now moved the new draft in the old directory pages, so the links should work better. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused you. 207.160.66.129 14:38, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 16:48, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Salizhan Sharipov
Wikipedia seems to have some conflicting information about Salizhan Sharipov. List of human spaceflights, 2000-present lists him with the flag of Uzbekistan, i.e. as an Uzbekistani astronaut. The infobox in his article lists his nationality as Uzbek. Yet he is sorted under Category:Russian cosmonauts. Assuming that he is a citizen of Uzbekistan, it would mean that he would have to be added to Timeline of astronauts by nationality as the first Uzbekistani astronaut. Or am I wrong? A ecis Bravado 00:30, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * He's a Cosmonaut because he flew on a Russian spacecraft (ie. Soyuz TMA-5) -- GW_SimulationsUser Page 20:12, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

astronaut vs. cosmonaut
i'm not sure that someone flying a Russian spacecraft can not be counted as an "astronaut".. i believe the word astronaut is coming into usage as a general, non-distiguishing term. Mlm42 23:29, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Astronaut bios
FYI I attempted to start a dialog on this at Template talk:WPBiography. (sdsds - talk) 19:49, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Merge proposal
The goals of this wikiproject would be better served if it were merged into WikiProject Human Spaceflight. (sdsds - talk) 06:45, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

New proposal (13 January 2008)
I have proposed that to reduce overlap and inactivity, this project and WikiProject Space missions are merged into WikiProject Human Spaceflight. Please see the Human Spaceflight WikiProject's talk page for more details and discussion. -- GW_SimulationsUser Page 23:46, 13 January 2008 (UTC)