User talk:Theon~enwiki/Shuttle Missions
I see you are working on Space Shuttle missions. I invite you to swing by Wikipedia: WikiProject Space. Rmhermen 17:57, Mar 2, 2004 (UTC)
Hi, these pages like STS-53 are a bit contentless - it would be better if they didn't exist at all. Evercat 14:12, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Look, you can't have these essentially blank pages any more than you could have an article about a species consisting solely of a blank taxobox. Evercat 14:24, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
But it makes it impossible to tell what's been done and what hasn't. Pages that haven't been written normally have red links to them. But now the ones you've created have normal colored links. This will only slow down the addition of actual content. Evercat 14:29, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- then why do stub pages exist? by that same logic all stubs should be blanked because they prevent in depth content from being addedTheon 14:31, Mar 4, 2004 (UTC)
Stubs have some content. Your pages have no content at all. Anyway, I suggest a temporary moratorium on them until the community decides. I've mentioned them on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion. For now, I won't delete any more if you continue to create them, but in the (I think quite likely) event that the vote is carried, you'll have wasted your time... Evercat 14:32, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
If you do continue, could you at least use specific external links, ie: instead of http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/ use http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-53/mission-sts-53.html or whatever. Evercat 14:34, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Congratulations for creating the templates for all STS missions. However, please try to inform the public which ones have no content apart from the mission name. You may like to use a star (*) after their links in the STS mission list, and explain that articles with the start after their name have no content. Optim 14:53, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I apologise if I came across as rude. I do that a lot, sorry. Evercat 15:06, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Hey Moink, just wanted to give you a heads up on the links at the bottom of the page. You should link to STS-94 and STS-86 going forwards and backwards, not just xx (those are years) see STS-27 for the template Theon 18:29, Mar 4, 2004 (UTC)
- Oops, that was just me being silly. I did actually know what I should be doing, I just typed the wrong thing. Sorry moink 18:33, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I formated Vance D. Brand. Just droping you a note. -- Quinwound 20:00, Mar 4, 2004 (UTC)
Theon: A little while back, I created the lists of human spaceflights 1961-1986, 1987-1999, 2000-now as what I felt were useful reference tables. One thing that they're missing is brief mission descriptions; perhaps you could help fill some of those in (I started, but lost enthusiasm after a while). -- Seth Ilys 03:47, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- No rush, of course! It's not like it's hard to find things to do around here. :) And I really appreciate the work you're doing on the shuttle mission pages... Keep it up! -- Seth Ilys 23:33, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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