Talk:NASA

This is in progress please dont edit or add stub tags. Im not done yet! --The Flying Spaghetti Monster (talk) 19:28, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm done now. If you read this please vote for the article to be made into a GA here

Comments

Things I think need linking or simplifying:

• exploration
• motto
• Crisis
• engineer
• scientist
• laboratories
• analyse

Other things:

• 1950's and 1960's - lose the apostrophe.
• "the first object made by people to leave Earth" - isn't it more accurate to say the first man made object to go into space? after all, aeroplanes had left Earth sometime earlier.
• "small, only" replace comma with "with"
• "Mercury project" - needs capital P.
• "Gemini project" P?
• Same for Apollo.
• Consistent capitalisation needed for Moon.
• "All 8 astronauts" 8->eight
• "Mars, the planet Saturn and Pluto. " Mars is a planet too...
• "of it's" its
• analyse should be analyze (US English)
• Can the references use the {{cite web}} template?

The Rambling Man (talk) 09:15, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Criteria for GA

Requirements for WP:GA articles

1. The article must be about a subject which belongs in Wikipedia. There is no use improving articles that do not belong here, and better fit another wiki, like Wikibooks, Wikispecies, Wiktionary...  Done Well NASA put a man on the moon.. I think that means its worthy of being here ( :
2. The article must have a certain length. A minimum is 3.5 kilobytes, not including infoboxes, images, references, other websites, interwiki, and categories. There is no use in denoting very short articles as good. Done According to this its 4.42 KB long, readable prose. Longer than the specified minimum length.
3. The article must have gone through a few revisions, possibly by different editors. No one writes perfect articles.  Done Mostly me revising but some other have contributed!
4. The article must be filed in the appropriate category. It must have at least one interwiki link.  Done There's a comprehensive list of interwiki links and its in the appropriate catgeories.
5. The last few revisions should be minor changes (like spell-checking or link-fixing). Done
6. All important terms should be linked and there must not be many red links left. Red links point to articles that do not exist yet. Usually the important word or phrase is only linked the first time it occurs. Done
7. If there are any illustrations, they must be pertinent to the article. They must also be properly labelled.  Done Three illustrations, all relevant, thumbnailed and captioned
8. There must be no templates pointing to the fact that the article needs improvement. These templates include {{complex}}, {{cleanup}}, {{stub}}, {{unreferenced}} and {{wikify}}. The article also should not need them. Done Except for the GA template there are none at all
9. Content that is from books, journal articles or other publications needs to be referenced. This can either be done with <ref>..</ref><references/> tags, or as a list of publications. Done Only done recently all references with the site web template

As far as I can see NASA meets all of those criteria is most ways. Im going to put it up for voting in a few days... anyone thinks it's not ready just let me know. The Flying Spaghetti Monster! 12:43, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Maybe not okay language

• "NASA is continuing operations include missions to the planets Mars, Saturn and Pluto".--If there is an okay source that tells about a target year for an upcoming mission to Mars - that might be an okay way to re-write (part of this). Thoughts? 2001:2020:309:CE47:347C:5122:3415:59CE (talk) 17:59, 3 April 2023 (UTC)