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Welcome

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Hello Beatgr and welcome to Wikipedia! I'm glad you've chosen to join us. This is a great project with lots of dedicated people, which might seem intimidating at times, but don't let anything discourage you. Be bold!, explore, and contribute. If you want to learn more,

The following links might also come in handy:

Float around for awhile until you find something that tickles your fancy. One easy way to do this is to hit the random page button in the navigation bar to the left. You can write new articles, add to existing ones, or edit any and all pages that appear. There are also many great committees and groups that focus on particular jobs. My personal favorite stomping grounds are Wikipedia:Translation into English and Wikipedia:Cleanup for sloppy articles, but they may not interest you. Finally, the Wikimedia Foundation has several other wiki projects that you might enjoy more, but Wikipedia is the most popular by far.

There are a few crucial points to keep in mind when editing. Be civil with users, strive to maintain a neutral point of view, and show good etiquette like signing your comments with four tildas like this: ~~~~ If you have any more questions, always feel free to ask me anything on my talk page or ask the true experts at Wikipedia:Help desk. Again, welcome! Draeco 21:48, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Notes

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After 3 or 4 WikiBots that seem to have a mind of their own -- of both writing "new versions of history" and censorship of ideas of the "bots" creator -- User:Carnildo being the most noticable. Now an administrator and is now against censorship (what a change in attitude).[1] This web article by Larry Sanger, one of the Wikipedia co-founders, Wikipedia credibility & management problems-- summarizes the current problems very well. Some respectable institutions have informed students -- they now discourage Wikipedia for source material. [2]

I am reducing my volunteer contributions and time to Wikipedia. My limited time can be better spent with more rewarding projects and initatives. Too bad, seems like a nice idea - but Wikipedia is attracting too many "Spin Control" editors - and will not receive my financial support. Beatgr 16:12, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sadly, some the best people (and contributors) -- Draeco being one -- have also left, taken a long break or reduced their contributions. Beatgr 02:28, 2 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

School officials unite in banning Wikipedia

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Comments that an "open - anyone can edit philosophy" is both bias and flawed in structure.[2]

Illinois State Routes WikiProject created!

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Hello! I just wanted to let you know that I've created Wikipedia:WikiProject Illinois State Routes so that all Illinois state route articles can be standardized. Let me know what you think on its talk page. Thanks! —Rob (talk) 18:25, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

5 Year Break Ends

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Beginning in October 2006, I took a break from Wikipedia due to its chaos (Elonka Dunin, demoted to semi-active admin) and lack of control for robotic editing and nameless, unqualified editors.[3] Wikipedia editor Oden was one editor that built a "bot" that posted notices about images uploaded over 12 months ago for various articles that I originally wrote. It was a poorly written program that did make mistakes, and destroyed thousands of entries. Since I was on extended "break" at that time due to work and holidays, I did not see these messages. He has "left Wikipedia' permanently as an editor (I don't know why, don't care).[4] I can find few articles that he actually researched and wrote. Beatgr Updated 24 February 2012

Live each day - you may not be around tomorrow. Beatgr 23:10, 25 July 2007 (UTC) My break is over and I will return on a periodic basis. Beatgr 03:05, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work on the Space Launch System page

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The article desperately needed the information you added, so as a rocketry enthusiast and habitual editor of the page, thank you. Boundarylayer (talk) 03:19, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

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I have noted an increase in Vandalism to Wikipedia entries. In one instance, due to repeated issues from the same individual, I submitted the incident information to his ISP and enforcement authorities.

Thank you for your contributions to Project Spaceflight

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For your work in Project Spaceflight, particular on older spacecraft! Neopeius (talk) 04:47, 18 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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References

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  1. ^ Harris, Dan (6 March 2007). "Wikipedia Editor Revealed as Fake" (video). ABC News. Retrieved 8 March 2007.
  2. ^ a b Olanoff, Lynn (27 November 2007). "School officials unite in banning Wikipedia". Seattle Times. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
  3. ^ Bergstein, Brian (7 March 2007). "After flap over phony professor, Wikipedia wants some writers to share real names". Associated Press. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
  4. ^ Giles, Jim (4 August 2009). "After the boom, is Wikipedia heading for bust?". New Scientist. Retrieved 15 Dec 2009.

Deletion discussion about SpaceX Crew-3

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Hello, Beatgr, and welcome to Wikipedia. I edit here too, under the username Alexandermcnabb, and I thank you for your contributions.

I wanted to let you know, however, that I've started a discussion about whether an article that you created, SpaceX Crew-3, should be deleted, as I am not sure that it is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia in its current form. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SpaceX Crew-3.

You might like to note that such discussions usually run for seven days and are not ballot-polls. And, our guide about effectively contributing to such discussions is worth a read. Last but not least, you are highly encouraged to continue improving the article; just be sure not to remove the tag about the deletion nomination from the top.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|Alexandermcnabb}}. And, don't forget to sign your reply with ~~~~ . Thanks!

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Alexandermcnabb (talk) 16:05, 16 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

== Alrxandermcnabb Request for Deletion, was voted down by the Community. beatgr 00:53 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for your work in Project Spaceflight

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For your continuous work on spaceflight articles. Neopeius (talk) 05:57, 27 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

(I found you in my enhancement work on OSCAR 4) --Neopeius (talk) 05:57, 27 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Volume 1 — Issue 7
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In the News!
Article of the month.

Michael Collins was an American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, made the first crewed landing on the surface. He was selected as part of NASA's third group of 14 astronauts in 1963 and flew in space twice.

Image of the month.

The unofficial flag of earth day which is made of the "Blue Marble" image taken onboard of the Apollo 17 spacecraft with a blue background.

Members

New Members:

Number of active members: 112.
Total number of members: 325.

April Launches
All times stated here are in UTC.

  1. United States Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L23 (7th at 16:34:18) Success Success
  2. China Long March 4B – Shiyan 6-02 (8th at 23:01) Success Success
  3. Russia Crewed mission Soyuz-2.1a – MS-18 (9th at 07:42:40) Success Success
  4. United States Crewed mission Falcon 9 – Crew-2 (23rd at 22:14:08) Success Success
  5. Russia Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 6 (25th at 22:14:08) Success Success
  6. United States Delta IV Heavy – NROL-82 (26th at 20:47) Success Success
  7. China Long March 6 – Qilu 1 & Qilu 4 (27th at 03:20) Success Success
  8. European Union Vega – Pléiades Neo 3 (29th at 01:50:00) Success Success
  9. China Long March 6 – Tianhe 1 (29th at 03:23:15) Success Success
  10. United States Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L24 (29rd at 03:44) Success Success
  11. China Long March 6 – Yaogan 34 (27th at 03:20) Success Success

May Launches
Launch dates can change. See a current list: here.

  • Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L25
  • GSLV Mk.2 – GISAT 1
  • Long March 7 – Tianzhou 2
  • Atlas 5 – SBIRS GEO Flight 5
  • Soyuz – OneWeb 7
 Article Statistics
This data reflects values from the 30 April 2021.
Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 7 18 4 7 36
FL 4 4 8
FM 97 97
GA 11 22 35 53 121
B 1 49 37 48 135
C 56 160 534 489 11 1,250
Start 37 158 1,115 2,235 373 3,918
Stub 7 244 2,191 226 2,668
List 14 130 79 211 1 435
Category 1,033 1,033
Disambig 48 48
File 202 202
Portal 55 55
Project 57 57
Redirect 1,131 1,131
Template 495 495
Other 38 38
Assessed 126 544 2,052 5,238 3,162 611 11,733
Unassessed 56 56
Total 126 544 2,052 5,238 3,162 667 11,789
Monthly Changes

Since March, 39 new pages have been added to Spaceflight. There is 1 less GA-class, with 3 more files, 4 more B-class, 6 more C-class, 7 more start-class and 5 new stub-class articles.

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1 May 2021 — 31 May 2021
Volume 1 — Issue 8
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News!
  • The Crew of SpaceX Crew-1 had a successful splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on 2nd May at 06:56:33 UTC. After they launched in November 2020 and had spent 167 days in space.
  • A LongMarch 5B rocket had an uncontrolled re-entery into the atmosphere on 4th May. With any debris being reported to have landed in the Indian Ocean.
  • One of Rocket Labs Electron rockets expierienced a launch malfunction 2:30 into launch causing the mission to result in failure.
  • Images have been released after the landing of Zhurong rover on Mars on 14th May.

Featured Content

Article of the month.

Creola Katherine Johnson was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. The space agency noted her "historical role as one of the first African-American women to work as a NASA scientist".

Image of the month.

Astronaut Clayton Anderson wis shown as a water bubble floats in the middeck of space shuttle Discovery during the STS-131 mission.

Members

New Members:

Number of active members: 116. Total number of members: 329.

May Launches
All times stated here are in UTC.

  1. United States Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L25 (4th at 19:01:07) Success Success
  2. China Long March 2C – Yaogan 30-08 (6th at 18:11) Success Success
  3. United States Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L27 (9th at 06:42) Success Success
  4. New Zealand Electron – "Running Out of Toes" (15th at 11:11) Failure Failure
  5. United States Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L26 (15th at 22:56) Success Success
  6. United States Atlas 5 – SBIRS-GEO 5 (18th at 17:37) Success Success
  7. China Long March 4B – Haiyang 2D (19th at 04:03) Success Success
  8. United States Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L28 (26th at 18:59) Success Success
  9. Russia Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 7 (28th at 17:38:39) Success Success
  10. China Long March 7 – Tianzhou 2 (29th at 12:55:29) Success Success

June Launches
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Article Statistics
This data reflects values from the 31 May 2021.
Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 7 19 4 7 37
FL 4 4 8
FM 98 98
GA 11 22 35 54 122
B 2 48 38 49 137
C 55 159 536 497 1 10 1,258
Start 37 158 1,112 2,238 372 3,917
Stub 7 245 2,190 231 2,673
List 14 130 79 211 1 435
Category 1,034 1,034
Disambig 48 48
File 202 202
Portal 55 55
Project 57 57
Redirect 1 1,133 1 1,135
Template 501 501
Other 1 38 39
Assessed 126 543 2,053 5,252 3,173 615 11,762
Unassessed 1 71 72
Total 126 543 2,053 5,252 3,174 686 11,834
Monthly Changes

Since April, 45 pages have been added to Spaceflight. 1 article reached FA-Class and 1 image reached FM-Class. There is 1 more GA class article, with 2 more B-class, 8 more C-class, 1 less start-class and 5 new stub-class articles.

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June 2021

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You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for violating copyright policy by copying text or images into Wikipedia from another source without evidence of permission. Please take this opportunity to ensure that you understand our copyright policy and our policies regarding how to use non-free content.
If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  MER-C 09:35, 13 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Copyright violations found on Shooting Star (spacecraft) and Crew Dragon Endeavour. You have received multiple copyright warnings in the past [1][2][3][4], one of which you dismissed as robotic vandalism (it was not). I will oppose any unblock appeal you make. MER-C 09:39, 13 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Beatgr (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I have been informed today, June 13, that Wikipedia administrator MER-C has indefinitely blocked my future editing on Wikipedia. This appears to be due edits to articles: Shooting Star (spacecraft) and Crew Dragon Endeavour. There was NO intended plagiarization or willful copyright violation in my editing. Referencing four (4) earlier Wikipedia articles of 2012 and 2017 are not relevant in this discussion and does not support MER-C conjecture of “multiple copyright violations”. Those two (2) articles were 5 and 10 years ago. They were amiability resolved, based on Wikipedia policy and facts by Wikipedia administration at that time. An EDITING BLOCK was NOT necessary to resolve this administrator’s (Mer-C) objection. Based on my past 15 years of article creation, “WikiGnome” for multiple articles, and Standardizing Article Framework and Clean-up of: Progress MS-4 to MS-19; Crew Dragon, starting with CRS-21; and NorthropGrumman Cygnus since Cygnus NG-12 over the past six months — it is difficult to justify this action. The article Shooting Star (spacecraft) has been a difficult entry to add to Wikipedia. It sat in my “draft space” for almost 2 years — due to insufficient reference sources (number, quality) and based on Wikipedia’s guidelines of not writing an original work (unreferenced). I do not remember “lifting text” from referenced sources, since I do not write in that manner. The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour article was not created by me. I remember clean-up (WikiGnome) on the article, due to poor & missing references, and adding results from NASA / SpaceX Crew-2 pre-launch news conference. It covered spacecraft safety updates before the Crew-2 launch. I am aware of the Wikipedia copyright policy, and adhere to that policy. No willful violation was intended. Lastly, an appeal process requires an impartial body to hear and consider an appeal. This statement by MER-C : “I will oppose any unblock appeal you make.” removes objectivity from Wikipedia’s appeal process. It actually states that an appeal process will not occur. Beatgr (talk) 00:40, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Thank you both for your comments. Ultimately, I've declined to send it for AN review at this point, because the user's phrasing seems to suggest that in the event of accidental copyright breaches, editors should just state needed improvements. While of course this is true to start, every time it occurs it both drains limited specialist editor time and is a copyright breach. You state it's the first warning you remember but there were numerous warnings, once the extra ones were provided, albeit with a significant recent gap. I didn't say that doing a major edit wasn't (excessive quotes/copyvio aside) good, but the fact that you indicated it was otherwise suggests a certain carelessness in high-sensitivity areas (which both copyvio and unblock requests are). It is not beyond the bounds that a different reviewing admin may be convinced - I suggest demonstrating a good awareness of how to avoid any accidental copyvio occuring, including quotation issues, and improving communication Nosebagbear (talk) 23:54, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

I came here to review this block. However, this block seems too complex for me to handle personally. I suggest that you request a review at WP:AN, it may get the attention it deserves there. HighInBC Need help? Just ask. 00:53, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Firstly, to Beatgr, all regular reviews are carried by admins with no prior involvement in the case. Mer-C is stating they will contest that admin unblocking you. That in effect rules out discretionary unblocks if the reviewing admin felt it was warranted, but just means that the appeal would be heard by the broader Community at WP:AN - blocking admins don't have any veto, as your appeal seems to believe It actually states that an appeal process will not occur..
  • Secondly, @MER-C:, an individual with appreciable non-copyvio history (in this case, 4 years and around 1500 edits) would not normally be direct blocked in this case, especially given that one of the pages you flag you marked as a case needing review rather than, say, direct G12ing it (although that latter aspect is somewhat a wash as I'm inclined to agree).
  • Thirdly, back to Beatgr, your appeal doesn't seem to note the level of recklessness present - comparatively few copyvio breaches are wilful, it's not a necessary component on copyvio blocks to protect the encyclopedia. You state you were wiki-gnoming Crew Dragon Endeavour except that this 450-word set of edits (admin review only) is a major substantive edit - in no way gnoming. The time since previous warning suggests AN review would be reasonable, but your lack of consideration of recklessness and mischaracterisation of areas of work and issues makes me disinclined to send it that way.
  • Given these clashing aspects, please both feel free to provide some additional thought - and I'll decide whether to either decline the appeal or escalate to WP:AN for fuller review. Nosebagbear (talk) 15:11, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • This appeal is without merit. "I do not remember “lifting text” from referenced sources, since I do not write in that manner." Yes, you do. This [5] isn't something I'd expect to see from an editor with 8000 edits and 15 years tenure, especially the bit with the registered trademark symbol. The copyvio is obvious - I only posted it to Wikipedia:Copyright problems to give someone the chance to rewrite it (if not, I will delete it). Copyvio is a habit, often resulting from insufficient proficiency in written English, communication and/or clue. The warnings prove this habit stretches over seven years. I expect the contributor copyright investigation to turn up more.
    • I had pasted the wrong diffs in the comment after the block template. The duplicate diffs should be [6][7][8]. MER-C 16:29, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Nosebagbear A willful disregard of copy-write was never intended and if mistakes were recently made in the two articles noted (reckless?), corrections could have been made. Based on additional thoughts requested by Nosebagbear (below) and HighInBC comment, I would ask for the next step of [WP:AN]] review.

The suggestion that I have Copyvio habit that stretches over seven years and a reckless editor is an unfounded accusation. This appears to be the foundation of MER-C block action and possibly a personal objection to this writer (unknown reason).

As a Wikipedia administrator, MER-C could have addressed the issues by: “Greg, I find this section of article inappropriate due to copyvio, please correct”. OR “I have deleted this section of article, due to my determination of copyvio. Please review.” I do not visit Wikipedia on a regular basis, nor am I a ‘Wiki writer for hire’, so posted notifications (talk page) are not immediately seen by me.

MER-C has stated … insufficient proficiency in written English, communication and/or clue. Recently retired, I wrote 60-100 pages (weekly) of professional technical analysis with supporting data/charts for seven years delivered to Global 1000 clients. In addition, I served as deliverable review for final reports (to clients) submitted by the firm’s other consultants for accuracy, grammar and clarity. This is a projected characterization, that is not an accurate assessment of this writer.

I looked at the two paragraphs of the Shooting Star, where a near 100% match to the citation/reference was noted, two paragraphs are “quoted text” are from original source (reported by the citation). Is that not allowed? not sufficient? Changing quoted text, from an original source, is a writing/article violation — as I was taught many years ago. I believe that it is also a violation of Wikipedia rules. Today, the overall article is too long, and could be edited for brevity with some loss of details and facts.

Yes, as noted by Nosebagbear, the Crew Dragon Endeavour was a larger addition (and corrections) than my normal “clean-up, janitorial” activities over the past few months. Changes were made to the article after NASA’s pre-launch news conference, where many ‘first time’ revelations were made by SpaceX officials regarding refurbishment of this spacecraft. In effect, invalidating paragraphs of the article.

Did I rush to make changes and additions to this article, based on those revelations? Possibly rushed. In hindsight, a citation to the actual NASA video with quotation from the SpaceX official, would have been “more appropriate” based on the stated copyvio objection. As stated by Wikipedia guidelines, that I have read, video or Twitter “tweet” citations are not encouraged.

This is the first copyvio warning, that I remember, in years. So a systematic copyvio violator, I am not. As I stated earlier, the Merodosia bridge article was removed, by mutual agreement in 2007.

Those specific details, from 10 years ago, are: I was incorporating additions to earlier work (research, writing with Richard Carlson, retired IL police sergeant and 9-1-1 commander) for the Illinois section of WikiProject U.S. Roads. It was a very large Wiki project (months, years) requiring coordination and assignments of many writers. In 2007, I desired to capture information of an old Illinois road bridge, but insufficient independent Internet sources existed in 2007 (mutual decision was made to delete). A new bridge opened at the site in June 2018. I have not revisited the subject, since the old bridge has since been demolished. I do not remember who the copyvio administrator was, at that time, but it was a positive exchange without hate. Beatgr 22:55 14 June 2021 (UTC) Beatgr (talk)

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Article of the month.

Lisa Marie Nowak is an American aeronautical engineer, and former NASA astronaut and United States Navy captain. Nowak was selected by NASA for NASA Astronaut Group 16 in 1996. She flew in space aboard Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-121 mission in July 2006. In 2007, Nowak was involved in an incident that led to her dismissal from NASA and the Navy.

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Article Statistics
This data reflects values from the 30 June 2021.
Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 7 19 5 7 38
FL 1 4 4 9
FM 100 100
GA 11 24 34 54 123
B 2 48 39 52 141
C 55 159 544 509 1 10 1,278
Start 37 157 1,105 2,234 374 3,907
Stub 8 244 2,189 231 2,672
List 14 129 79 211 1 434
Category 1,032 1,032
Disambig 49 49
File 203 203
Portal 55 55
Project 68 68
Redirect 1 1 1,134 1 1,137
Template 501 501
Other 38 38
Assessed 126 545 2,055 5,261 3,181 617 11,785
Unassessed 1 76 77
Total 126 545 2,055 5,261 3,182 693 11,862
Image of the month.

Offical portrait of Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. (Buzz Aldrin) who was the pilot on the Apollo 11 mission.

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Members

New Members:

Number of active members: 118. Total number of members: 331.
Monthly Changes

Since May 28 pages ahve been added to Spaceflight. 1 article reached FA-Class, 1 list reached FL-class & 2 images reached FM-Class. There is 1 more GA class article, as well as 1 more file page. There are 4 more B class articles, 20 more C class articles, 10 less start class articles & 1 less stub article.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Explorer 52

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A tag has been placed on Explorer 52 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://web.archive.org/web/20050118105032/http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/explorer_ie-d.htm. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Volume 1 — Issue 10
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News!
  • On 11th July Virgin Galactic had their first fully crewed mission to the edge of space with Richard Branson onboard in SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity.
  • On 17th July NASA announced that scientific observations from the Hubble Space Telescope had resumed on a backup computer after being placed in a "safe mode" since June 13.
  • On 20th July Blue Origin had their first fully crewed mission to the edge of space with Jeff Bezos onboard in a New Shepard capsule.
  • On 26th July The Pirs module was the first permanent ISS module to be decommissioned. After docking to the ISS on 17th September 2001, just under 20 years ago.
  • On 29th July The ISS was moved out of its normal orientation after the Nauka module (a new Russian module) was docked and started firing its thrusters.
Article of the month.

Shuttle-Centaur was a version of the Centaur upper stage rocket designed to be carried aloft inside the Space Shuttle. Two variants were developed: Centaur G-Prime and Centaur G. The powerful Centaur upper stage allowed for heavier deep space probes, and for them to reach Jupiter sooner. However, neither variant ever flew on a Shuttle.

Image of the month.

This is an Extreme Deep Field image taken from the Hubble Space Telescope, released by NASA on September 25th, 2012. With exposure dates from July 2002 to March 2012.

Members

New Members:

Number of active members: 120. Total number of members: 333.

July Launches
All times stated here are in UTC.

  1. Russia Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 8 (1st at 12:48:33) Success Success
  2. China Long March 2D – Jilin-1 (3rd at 02:51) Success Success
  3. China Long March 4C – Fengyun 3E (4th at 23:28) Success Success
  4. China Long March 3C/E – Tianlian I-05 (6th at 15:53) Success Success
  5. China Long March 6 – Ningxia 1 (9th at 11:59) Success Success
  6. China Long March 2C – Yaogan 30-10 (19th at 00:19) Success Success
  7. Russia Proton-M – Nauka (21st at 14:58:25) Success Success
  8. China Long March 2D – Tianhui-1D (29th at 04:01) Success Success
  9. United States Electron – Monolith (29th at 06:00) Success Success
  10. European Union Ariane 5 ECA – SO-D2 & Eutelsat (30th at 21:00) Success Success

August Launches
Launch dates can change. See a current list: here.

Article Statistics
This data reflects values from the 31 July 2021.
Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 7 19 5 7 38
FL 1 4 4 9
FM 102 102
GA 11 24 34 54 123
B 2 48 40 52 142
C 56 160 545 510 12 1,283
Start 36 157 1,106 2,244 374 3,917
Stub 9 244 2,188 233 2,674
List 14 126 79 218 1 438
Category 1,032 1,032
Disambig 49 49
File 207 207
Portal 55 55
Project 68 68
Redirect 2 1 1 1,134 1 1,139
Template 501 501
Other 31 31
Assessed 126 546 2,058 5,278 3,179 621 11,808
Unassessed 3 1 74 78
Total 126 546 2,058 5,281 3,180 695 11,886
Monthly Changes

Since June: 24 pages have been added to spaceflight. There are 4 more files. There is 1 more B class article, 5 more C class articles, 10 more start class articles & 2 more stub class articles.
The 2 additional FM class have been FM for a few years, they just registered this month.

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