Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Nicholas Mayall/archive1

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From Fifelfoo for the start, repasted to clear mainpage for FAC bloat. Fifelfoo (talk) 00:24, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Dates inconsistent. YYYY-MM-DD, Month DD, YYYY, etc. Please pick one style for the Bibs, References, Notes, and stick to it?

Please check the capitalisation of this journal, "Lick Observatory bulletin"

Link in this citation failed to display correctly due to Square brackets in title?, "Mayall, Nicholas U. (1939). "The occurrence of λ 3727 [O II in the spectra of extragalactic nebulae]". Lick Observatory bulletin 19 (497): 33–9."

Please cite title of journal in full, as is your style, "Mayall, Nicholas U.; Lindblad, Per Olef (October 1970). "Mean rotational velocities of 56 galaxies". Astron. Astrophys 8: 364–74."

Short cite does not match bibliography line: Associated Press 1933; please cite Authors for your newspaper articles in bibliography as AP wire if you're going to short cite to AP.

I'm unclean on what this request is asking for. When AP is used, there is no author listed for the newspaper article. WilliamKF (talk) 18:40, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Then where did the name Associated Press come from for your short citation? And why isn't AP listed as the author in the bibliography? Fifelfoo (talk) 00:24, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Multiple author style differs in shortcites (" Nicholson & Mayall 1930") from Bibliography (Last ; First).

Isn't this just a function of the templates? I'm using citation and harvnb templates, aren't those meant to be used together? WilliamKF (talk) 18:43, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Template:Harvard citation indicates you're right, but its gungy in the extreme. Can you report this bug to the appropriate citation templates? Fifelfoo (talk) 00:24, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Does Crotts have a first name? Bouchet, P.; Lawrence, S.; Crotts; Heathcote, S. (March 2000), "A Tip/Tilt System for the Blanco Telescope"

Please cite Abt 1993 correctly (the link even says how, "Nicholas U. Mayall (1906-1993) (1Mar93) (from the Director's Office, NOAO Newsletter No. 33, 1 March 1993)")

Please generally indicate Staff, Wire service, or named author for newspaper articles, attributing questionable attributions of authorship. Your shortcites claim authors (AP, NYT Staff) where your bibliography lacks authorial information

Please indicate that this, "Eglin, Tom (1973), Dr. Nicholas U. Mayall, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, retrieved 2009-10-24" is the photograph that you're citing, and not the webpage?

I'm citing both the photo and more specifically the caption of the photo. Not sure what to do here? WilliamKF (talk) 19:26, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps (Photograph and caption), or Photograph and caption: [work title].? Fifelfoo (talk) 00:24, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

There's a problem with this citation, is the work title the same as the series title? "Osterbrock, Donald E. (1996), "Nicholas Ulrich Mayall, May 9, 1906 – January 5, 1993" (PDF), Biographical Memoirs, Biographical Memoirs, 69, Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, pp. 189–213, ISBN 0-309-05346-3, retrieved 2009-09-12"

Note it is both a series and the title of the work is the series. Dropped series and now only have title. WilliamKF (talk) 19:41, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Book publisher locations. You have a choice: Supply no location data (bad), supply location data for non-University presses and University presses with ambiguous locations (to fix, supply location for "Wilson, Ray N. (2004), Reflecting Telescope Optics: Basic design theory and its historical development, Astronomy and astrophysics library; Volume 1 of Reflecting Telescope Optics, 1, Springer, ISBN 9783540401063"), supply publication locations for all.Fifelfoo (talk) 04:08, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Fixed by adding Berlin for the above. Are more needed? WilliamKF (talk) 19:51, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

It was just one I believe. Fifelfoo (talk) 00:24, 23 November 2009 (UTC)