Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Star/archive1

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Portal:Star edit

I thought it has reached a very good standard and therefore should be nominated for featured portal status. Extra999 (Contact ^me + _contribs) 16:19, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The DYK section does not look accurate.
- It uses the word "weight", but weight is a function of the gravitational field a mass is situated. Even were this "mass", the mass does not disappear when hydrogen is fused into helium, only a fraction of the mass of hydrogen converted is actually turned into energy, most of it is conserved in the helium created.
- You cannot go on foot to Proxima Centauri, there is nothing to foot along. Further, it makes no statement as what speed this is supposed to be. Voyager is not headed towards Proxima either, so it will never reach that star.
- "biggest" is an ambiguous term, it could mean the most massive, the largest volume, the largest girth (not the same thing, since girth is a function of rotation, gravitation, and pressure)
- 76.66.192.73 (talk) 05:02, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, First fact - Read the first fact of this source. It says weight.

Second fact - The thing is if, both for Voyager and on foot.

Third fact - I have done the biggest as largest known stars. If you still have problems here click this link and read the title and the list.

--Extra999 (Contact ^me + _contribs) 06:14, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The first DYK is clearly wrong then, whatever the source says, it is factually incorrect

On "foot", well, if I shuffled along with a walker, or if I ran like the wind, I'd have a different speed, and thus the time needed to traverse the distance would be different.

There is no "if" on the DYK, it is not formulated in such a way as to show that

I have addded if. --Extra999 (Contact ^me + _contribs) 11:45, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That list you point out clearly mentions the parameters for what it means by biggest, the DYK does not. The list on Wikipedia clearly specifies it is concerned with the girth of the star (radius)

Eh, it does, surely. Lets also keep it simple, its for ordinary people. --Extra999 (Contact ^me + _contribs) 11:45, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

76.66.192.73 (talk) 20:04, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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