Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spaceflight/Unmanned spaceflight task force/Archive 2

(C/K)osmos satellites
I think we need to standardise whether to use the spelling "Cosmos" or "Kosmos" for satellites of that series. I've been using "Kosmos" as it is the preferred spelling per WP:RUS, and I feel that its conformity with that guideline would make it the better transliteration to standardise on. -- G W … 06:50, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Given the lack of objections, I have started to implement this. -- G W … 14:28, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

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Unmanned spaceflight articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Stand-alone banner template
I see that the Unmanned spaceflight banner has been removed but there has been no reply to the related talk page message, Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spaceflight. Sorry but I think Human Spaceflight and Unmanned spaceflight are crippled by restricting them to the Space template because their direct parent's scope already includes theirs in entirety. What is the point in tagging a project with a Space tag and both USF and SF? If you tag something as Unmanned spaceflight really you should also check Spaceflight, in every single instance. As I have said elsewhere all the Space projects and their scopes, as they are currently, make no structural sense. If someone wants to develop articles on USF, as the parent project both includes all of its scope and has more members, people are always going to use SF instead. USF is a poor relation stuck in a granny-annex, it can never recruit or hold on to members the way things are.

And for that matter why have other stand-alone banner templates like WikiProject Astronomy and Wkiproject Solar System's not been removed? Indeed WP Astronomy doesn't use the Space template. Can we not figure out a better way to structure Space-related projects? ChiZeroOne (talk) 05:50, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Reorganisation of space WikiProjects
There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Space/2010 Reorganisation regarding the future of WikiProject Space and its child projects. The discussion is aimed at defining the roles of projects, and improving the activity and coordination of the projects. The input of members of this project is requested as it is one which may be affected by the issue. -- G W … 22:36, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
 * For the record, this task force was merged. Two of its project pages are about to be de-categorised or deleted:
 * Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Unmanned spaceflight articles by quality log
 * Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Unmanned spaceflight articles by quality statistics
 * See Categories_for_discussion/Log/2014_July_4. – Fayenatic  L ondon 10:20, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

Citation templates now support more identifiers
Recent changes were made to citations templates (such as citation, cite journal, cite web...). In addition to what was previously supported (bibcode, doi, jstor, isbn, ...), templates now support arXiv, ASIN, JFM, LCCN, MR, OL, OSTI, RFC, SSRN and Zbl. Before, you needed to place id (or worse http://arxiv.org/abs/0123.4567), now you can simply use 0123.4567, likewise for id and http://www.jstor.org/stable/0123456789 &rarr; 0123456789.

The full list of supported identifiers is given here (with dummy values):

Obviously not all citations needs all parameters, but this streamlines the most popular ones and gives both better metadata and better appearances when printed. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:28, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

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