User talk:WDGraham/AOS

Column heading acronyms and codes

Here is a conversation I had with the owner, WDGraham, in January 2014. It provides the requisite column heading meanings. N2e (talk) 03:25, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Yes, thanks, I am interested in that. Looks like a very helpful tool for seeing work that could be done to improve the encyclopedia of spaceflight.

I'm a bit surprised at the large number of orbital launches in the recent past few years have redlink article names. I guess I'm just most familiar with a small subset of all launches, and tend to work more in some areas than others. Might be worth me looking at that sometime to see what could be done.

BTW, you might want to add a legend. I was good on most of the column headings but did not grok these: No OLBY, No LYC, C&P, No IB, Old IB, No ID, or No SCN. N2e (talk) 12:29, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

I'll stick a key on it as soon as I get a chance; in the meantime, "No OLBY" means the Orbital Launches by year template (eg. Template:Orbital launches in 2014) is missing; "No LYC" refers to the launch year categories (Category:Spacecraft launched in 2014); "C&P" means the page is tagged as containing content copy-and-pasted from public domain sources; "No IB" means the page doesn't have a recognised infobox while "Old IB" means it has one, but it is one of the ones we are looking to retire. "No ID" and "No SCN" mean the infobox is lacking an International Designator and a Satellite Catalog Number respectively (I'm currently working on a way to prevent the inclusion of failed launches in the last two fields). --W. D. Graham 13:35, 22 January 2014 (UTC)