Talk:Pyxis/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Reyk (talk · contribs) 10:54, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

I'll review this. From my first reading, my impression is that it will be passed with very few changes. I will work through it section by section over the next few days. Reyk _YO! 10:54, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

In case you miss it, Mike Peel had a few suggestions at Talk:Pyxis#Suggestions, which I have either done or explained otherwise. I find these articles pretty tricky so appreciate it when we get an astonomer to look over it :))) Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:22, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

I've had another few reads over the article and I can find nothing else to quibble about, so I am passing it. :) Reyk _YO! 11:52, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

thx +++ Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:58, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Lead

• The lead should mention that Pyxis is on the Galactic plane

agreed - added to lead and linked in body too Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 11:28, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

History

• The statement about Lacaille cataloguing 10,000 stars from observations at the Cape of Good Hope should have a citation.
• "All but one honoured instruments that symbolised the Age of Enlightenment."- which one? This also needs a citation.

Ok, rather than pepper the text with cites, I have added a commented-out note as three consecutive sentences come from the same source. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:01, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Characteristics

This section is fine as it is.

Stars

The content is pretty much fine, except that the section is a bit long. Perhaps it could be divided into "Bright stars" and "Variable stars", which works well in eg. Triangulum Australe.

musing on that one. A little tricky as some of the bright stars are also variable stars, and we have some stars at the bottom that aren't variable. The only clean break I can do is "planetary systems", which I have ahead with. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:25, 26 August 2015 (UTC)