Template:Did you know nominations/Nexus for Exoplanet System Science

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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 11:49, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Nexus for Exoplanet System Science edit

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... that an interdisciplinary team of scientists is working with NASA to search for life on exoplanets (pictured)?

ALT1:... that NExSS is a new coalition created by NASA to collaborate on searching for life on exoplanets (an exoplanet pictured)?
ALT2:... that NExSS is a new virtual institute created by NASA to search for life on exoplanets (an exoplanet pictured)?
Reviewed: War and Peace (2002 film)

Created by Viriditas (talk) and Drbogdan (talk). Nominated by Viriditas (talk) at 09:55, 29 April 2015 (UTC).

New enough (7 days). Long enough. Within policy (very well cited, no copyvio). Hook is interesting and in the right format (but I have to add the word pictured since there is a picture included). I added ALT1 and ALT2 hooks for a consideration to highlight that this coalition is new. QPQ done. There are the following minor concerns that should be addressed first.

All refs verified and the refs used by the hook are also verified, but as per DYK rule, the citation for the hook should be at the end of the sentence, not the end of the paragraph. Additionally, if ALT2 is used to say that it is a virtual institute (I think it will make the hook sounds more interesting), then ref#8 from UC Berkeley has to be used in that sentence. Please move refs to the end of the sentence for the hook.
I think the external links to webpages of some of the principal investigators are not needed. As per WP:EXT, the external links within the content area should be minimized and should only be about the article's subject. Examples of WP:LINKSTOAVOID are "[w]ebsites of organizations mentioned in an article". In this case, they are websites related to persons mentioned in the article, not about the article's subject. So I think we should avoid those also. The best way is to remove those 4 external links in the "Research" section.

Z22 (talk) 01:19, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Forgot to mention that the picture is free (released under CC BY 4.0). So the picture is good. Z22 (talk) 01:34, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

@Z22: Thanks for the review. Previously, I expressed the same concerns about the external links section to the editor who added it, and per your recent concerns, I have now removed it.[1] I've also modified the first sentence of the research section to more closely follow the hook.[2] I want to thank you for offering two new proposed hooks, but I think it is better to keep hooks short and simple and not confuse readers with an unknown acronym like "NExSS"; the fact that we have an interdisciplinary team of scientists working together implies it is a coalition. The fact that it is a virtual institute isn't really new or interesting, as that model was copied from the Virtual Planetary Laboratory at the University of Washington.[3] Viriditas (talk) 23:29, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

@Viriditas: What I mean about the external links are the 4 links to astrobiologyfuture.org inside the "Research" section that link from the names of those 4 principal investigators to external bio pages. The links are still there now. Z22 (talk) 00:47, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

@Z22: thanks for clarifying. Another editor must have added those, as I never saw them until now. I have removed it and replaced it with a table.[4] Viriditas (talk) 01:08, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

All concerns addressed. Good to go. Z22 (talk) 01:32, 4 May 2015 (UTC)