Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/SpaceX/Overview
.jpg) | This page is part of the SpaceX task force's online guidebook and contains instructions, recommendations, or suggestions for editors working on SpaceX or spaceflight-related articles. Many pages of the guidebook are borrowed and adapted from the WikiProject Military history's Academy. |
Human spaceflight has been seen as something unearthly, something that only the smartest, fittest, or bravest can do. And indeed, in English, we have phrases such as "this isn't rocket science" or "to shoot the moon" to denote something complex or extraordinary. The same can be said about editing Wikipedia: some tasks such as copyediting or writing featured articles can be extremely taxing. But it shouldn't be. This guidebook aims to help editors write the best possible article here, although the same can be said to writing in general.
A lot of people asked: "Why replicate WikiProject Military history's Academy? Isn't it just a waste of time?" And indeed, if not for one thing: it is WikiProject Military history. With a surge of interest from private spaceflight companies, it is the best for us to make continue the tradition and make new essays about the new challenges facing editors today. We all know the inconvenience of not having that fact on Wikipedia. Therefore, to phrase it from the Academy: "It is our ambitious goal to collect this behemoth of knowledge and to use it for the creation and improvement of [...] articles on Wikipedia". So go out there, flip the pages, and fix your little problem!