Talk:Cabeus (crater)

Crater in the name

Since there is not other article with the name Cabeus, is it necessary to have the (crater) identifier in the name? Cheers! Scapler (talk) 17:28, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Probably not; that's just been the naming convention for lunar crater articles.—RJH (talk) 20:51, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

depth data from Kurt Fisher database

[1] gives depth as 5.71 km, citing Kurt Fisher database as its source, however the links appear to be broken. is there a reliable cite for this? partly-recovered link as [2]. probably cite as "Fisher, K.A. 2007. The Third Dimension: Crater Depths from the Apollo Era to the Present. Selenology Today 5:17-61." but needs verification. -- 99.233.186.4 (talk) 05:03, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

The web site for Selenography Today is http://digilander.libero.it/glrgroup/ . They appear to be storing back issues in zip files.—RJH (talk) 19:27, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Okay, went there and downloaded the article, which says the data table is available among the supplementary materials in PDF, HTML, and CSV formats, but i couldn't find right file. -- 99.233.186.4 (talk) 22:01, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

image suggestion

for an image of the crater, suggest cropping relevant area from the map at [3] -- 99.233.186.4 (talk) 06:44, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Seem to recognize that as an old air-brushed map of the moon. I hope there will be better images available in the future from the LRO mission.—RJH (talk) 20:52, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Caption, period and complete/incomplete sentences.

Hi

I have just replaced the period on the caption.

See also: Periodic sentence and Terminal punctuation

It may be that the "incomplete sentence" has been misunderstood. By my understanding;

Incomplete sentences:

• Flowers
• White lilies
• Small children
• Cabeus crater

Complete sentences:

• Two small children playing.
• White lilies in a vase of water.
• Flowers in an arrangement.
• Cabeus Crater (left) as imaged by the Diviner instrument on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

As a litmus test, should that last sentence have a period? If so, the caption is indeed a full sentence. Chaosdruid (talk) 01:34, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

According to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (captions)#Wording, I believe not. Regards, RJH (talk) 14:37, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

As I see it the phrase has both a subject and a predicate (the verb being imaged - past participle). In which case it would be a sentence. Chaosdruid (talk) 15:44, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Heh, you're undoubtedly correct then. It's remarkable how much effort we spend on the least important elements, eh? :-) RJH (talk)

We all live and learn - Wikipedia has been the biggest grammar learning curve of my life :¬) Last week I learnt that ellipsis have a space before and after them ("... on the beaches ..."), though to be honest it just made me realise that I have incorrectly edited hundreds of articles ... Chaosdruid (talk) 23:35, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Except at the end of a sentence, of course. ;-) Distributed Proofreaders is another good place for refining proofreading skills. Regards, RJH (talk) 15:00, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

I have been a member there for several years, though since starting to put more time into Wikipedia I have not really helped there. It is indeed good training but unfortunately as most of the books are pretty old (generally pre 1940) typography and grammar can be a little out-dated. Chaosdruid (talk) 18:17, 30 June 2011 (UTC)