Larryincinci

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re: STS-118 edits

Regarding your edits to the STS-118 article, please see this page, NASA does not put a hyphen in the truss names, nor do any of the contractors for them. When in reference to the mission, there should not be a hyphen, they should be listed as NASA lists them, (i.e. S5, S6, etc.) to keep continuity. See the main mission page here, on the right side there is the table with details, under payload, it is listed as S5. Also see the Logistics patch. The same goes for the launch pad, it is LC-39A (called 39A). See also STS-117 payloads and STS-117 infobox for reference. Shuttle missions use a standard template, so that formatting should not change. For future reference, you can refer to WikiProject Space missions. Thanks! ^Ariel♥Gold 04:11, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

I'd like to help clarify some things for you, and please don't take this as a negative. Some changes you made removed links to pre-existing pages:

• List of human space flights chronologically
• List of Space Shuttle missions
• List of space flights (2007)

Those result in red links, because they are not the proper terminology used with NASA, and on Wikipedia. I also have fixed those to return them to proper form:

• List of human spaceflights chronologically
• List of space shuttle missions
• List of spaceflights (2007)

The same thing happened when you formatted the template for Endeavour:

{{Space Shuttle ''Endeavour''}}

The template cannot have italics in it. It turned it into an invalid substitution. I've corrected that, as well.

The overuse of hyphens is another area I reverted some of your changes. While they may be useful in some areas of editing, for NASA missions the terms are used as written by NASA, (i.e., upgraded, outfitted, refit) and are correctly used as shown in Merriam-Webster's dictionary, as well. (upgraded outfitted refit.)

The use of EDT, and not E.D.T. is standard on all shuttle mission articles. See the notice at the top of the article's page that lists time in GMT, not G.M.T. In fact, the terms GMT/UTC/EDT etc., are not used regularly with periods Wikipedia's EDT article, World time server.

Finally, the word "shuttle" is a noun in some situations, as it is interchangeable with the term "orbiter". When it is used to reference a specific orbiter, (i.e.: Space Shuttle Discovery), then the capital letters are appropriate. When used, however, in a sentence such as "NASA Fact: The shuttle's main engines create a combined maximum thrust of more than 1.2 million pounds ...", it is not used as a proper noun and, therefore, does not get capitalized.

I'd like to close by saying I hope you do not feel I'm being mean, but the goal of the space-related articles that are similar (missions, etc.) is to keep a standard format and layout. Thanks again! ^Ariel♥Gold 04:38, 5 August 2007 (UTC)