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Doing edit

    {{Taxonbar}} related improvements (talk).
    Fixing typos & WP:MOS things.
    Fixing various/CS1 maintenance & error categories (random worst offenders).
    Fixing Category:Pages using deprecated image syntax (some examples).
    Removing {{Orphan}} tags from pages with 3+ incoming mainspace links.
    General article & citation cleanup of ~56,000 articles in Category:Astronomy via AWB & my good friend, regex. Fixes include, but aren't limited to:
        Parsing author & editor lists (talk, talk).
        Standardizing |year=/|date= citation usage where appropriate (talk).
        Standardizing L, R, M, etc. usage. Adding those templates to articles, when appropriate (talk).
        Trying to standardize use of parsecs first, light-years second, where appropriate (talk, talk).
    Taking bites out of the WikiProject Astronomy cleanup listing, and perusing WP:Vital articles/Physical sciences#Astronomy.
        Finding pages with unintentional links to disambiguation pages and fixing the easy ones. Sometimes I'm even on the leaderboard.
        Finding, adding, and formatting proper references to remove {{citation needed}} tags, reference errors, and hidden categories for astronomy articles.
    Sometimes listening to the sound of Wikipedia.

To do edit

    Standardize MOS:DateFormat for astro articles (tbd).
    Make article stub on A3558.
    Expand on the differences between galaxy groups and clusters (talk).

Not doing (anymore) edit

    Converting {{IUCN}}s & bare-cites/refs to {{Cite journal}} (talk, talk, talk) (satisfying examples) — need more consensus one way or the other.
    Updating IUCN conservation status (talk) (some examples) — better & easier to do via Wikidata.
    Populating the more-difficult-to-find {{Infobox galaxy cluster}} statistics (member #, velocity dispersion, ICM temperature, mass) from journal articles for the most popular Abell clusters — doing so for all would take way too much time and wouldn't be as much benefit.

Never done edit

    Adding {{Redirect category shell}} to single-redirect-template #REDIRECTs (via Tom.Bot, BRfA denied).

Done (large and/or systematic changes) edit

    Luamatically standardize WP:TOL categories (talk) (T203355).
    Populating, correcting, standardizing minor planets' categories & sortkeys from the JPL SBDB, using AWB, C#, and lots o' RegEx.
    Replaced typographic ligatures like fi ff fl ffi ffl with plain-text, where appropriate (talk).
    Added {{Taxonbar}} to all pages with a valid WikiData IUCN ID (talk).
    Added {{Redirect category shell}} to multiple-redirect-template #REDIRECTs (talks).
    AWB Night-mode style.css
    Category:Minor planets maintenance (talk)
    Category:Astronomical objects by year of discovery maintenance (talk)
    Category:Numbered asteroids maintenance (talk)
    Helped reduce the Cleanup listing for WikiProject Astronomy to the lowest it has ever been as a % of astronomy articles: 11.7% at inception, 31.7% on 18 February 2012, and now 9.2% on 19 May 2015. Done mostly via #REDIRECTing ~12,000 unnotable asteroid stubs (talk).
    Helped with the CarloscomB cleanup.
    Extended the "Earth-Moon-thing" size-comparison format to 8 more Solar System objects between the size of Enceladus and Titania (talk).
    List all most pages in Category:Astronomy (here and here); list of all numbered asteroids here.
    Resolve ambiguities surrounding cluster designations for many NGC articles.
    Template related:

    Consistify & expand parameters & documentation for the {{IUCN}} family of templates to remove CS1 errors.
    Added many needed parameters to {{Infobox astro object}}.
    Added documentation to the {{NGCX}} family of templates.
    Added |Velocity dispersion=, |Flux=, and |Distance (co-moving)= parameters to {{infobox galaxy cluster}}.
    Add notes and helpful wikicode to all {{Infobox galaxy cluster}} parameters for clarity and consistent usage.
    Created & transcluded {{Infobox supercluster}} to all superclusters.

    Abell catalog related:

    Turned the boring, ugly, unorganized List of Abell clusters into this very nice table while adding ra, dec, Abell richness, and BM type (inspired by this heroic effort by User:Dr. Submillimeter).
    Added |Bautz-Morgan type= parameter to {{Infobox galaxy cluster}}. Populated it and |richness class= for all List of Abell clusters and Category:Abell objects, respectively.
    Created and assigned 6 new categories for/to all Abell cluster richness 0-5.
    Corrected all Abell cluster pages with {{Infobox galaxy}} to {{Infobox galaxy cluster}}.
    Made {{Catalogs}} variable width so it looks nicer at the bottom of a page (talk), and added it to all Abell object pages.
    Populated the easily gotten {{Infobox galaxy cluster}} statistics (α, δ, constellation, z, co-moving distance, x-ray flux) from NED for all Abell cluster pages.

    Organized the List of galaxy clusters and removed synonymous usage of galaxy clusters with galaxy groups.

AWB feature requests (outdated) edit

Still-open: 2 3 4 5 66 7 9 10 12 13 14 15 17
Endorsed (still open): 1616
Incorporated into AWB: 1 11Still buggy
Workaround/alt solution is sufficient: 8[\d\D]{936,} 18Tools.WordCount(ArticleText)

Unorphaned edit

Arp 107 (via Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies)Calcium monohydride (via Inorganic compounds by element)Coronet cluster (via Corona Australis)Galactic ridge(via Milky Way)Kilonova (via Gamma-ray burst)Nuclear pasta (via Neutron star)Virgocentric flow (via Virgo Cluster)Virial mass (via Binding energy and Gravitational binding energy)

Pages & templates significantly contributed to (and improved, hopefully) edit

    List of Abell clustersVelocity dispersionEridanus clusterAstrophysical X-ray sourceAntlia ClusterAbell 520Abell 2199Coma ClusterKitt Peak National ObservatoryVirgocentric flowCalcium monohydride
    {{Authority control}}{{Taxonbar}}{{Deg2DMS}}{{Infobox astro object}}{{Infobox galaxy cluster}} ★ {{Infobox globular cluster}} ★ {{Infobox star}} ★ {{Catalogs}} ★ {{Earth radius}} ★ {{Jupiter radius}}

Pages, templates, and categories created edit

    {{Navseasoncats}}{{Category described in year}} ★ {{The Banstar Barnstar}} ★ {{NASTRO comment}}{{Partial minor planet designation}} ★ {{Cite compare2}} ★ {{Deg2HMS}}{{hub}}{{Infobox supercluster}} ★ {{Solar luminosity}} ★ {{Solar radius}} ★ {{Title number}} ★ {{Lunar mass}} ★ {{Lunar radius}} ★ {{Fe/H}} ★ {{alpha/Fe}} ★ {{WikiCat topicon}} ★ {{AC with n elements}} ★ {{Aircraft navigation see also}} ★ {{Category TOC see also}} ★ {{Commons templates see also}} ★ {{Title year see also}} ★ {{List of minor planets/See also}} ★ {{Minor planet link templates/See also}}
    Bautz-Morgan classification
    Abell 133Abell 262Abell 478Abell 665Abell 907Abell 1413Abell 1795Abell 1991Abell 2390
    NGC 1721NGC 1723NGC 1725NGC 1728Pages in Category:Astronomy
    Category:Potentially hazardous asteroids
    Many, many #REDIRECTs. Mostly capitalization and typo-related, plus ~11,000 minor planet sub/stub #Rs.