Talk:Astronomy Cast

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[edit] List of episodes—links

Should the table of episodes include a link to the individual podcasts? StevenBlack (talk) 17:12, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

There's nothing in the guidelines on external links to say not, but (in my opinion) it's probably not necessary to add the maintenance cost— a single link to the main website at the end of the article should be sufficient. ~ Veledan • T 22:42, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Agreed, it also clutters the page imho. Hagge (talk) 05:24, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Please refrain from speedying

One or more attempts to create this article by Astronomy Cast listeners have been speedied—I guess for lack of notability (there is a thread in the Astronomy Cast forum). Astronomy Cast is non-profit and is currently iTunes #1 Natural Sciences podcast across all topics, and I reckon we can make a case for notability / retention even if a little more time is needed to establish references in the article. So if this article is tagged for deletion in the near future, please let it go through AFD rather than speedy. Many thanks, ~ Veledan • T 19:04, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

I have changed most of the already existing references to Astronomy Cast on wikipedia to interwiki links, to help show notability. I just need help with Sun, Saturn, Mercury (planet) and Uranus --85.225.85.96 (talk) 19:33, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Wiki editors really needs to get their heads around this podcasting thing. Skeptics Guide had like 30,000 listeners but they kept deleting it claiming it wasn't notable. Golly. Doesn't matter if a podcast is in the top 10 on itunes by category. As long as there doesn't appear to be a New York Times article about it, it is not notable enough. They only let SGU remain when Randi joined. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mindme (talk • contribs) 02:54, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of episodes

I moved the list of episodes to a seperate page as I felt the huge table cluttered things up... Sorry the text entry in 'Episodes' is a bit lame but it's late here and I have work in the morning... Maybe someone could put something better ;) Violentbob (talk) 22:27, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

I've further refined this and split the table into three as it was already starting to get unwieldy at 92 entries. At some point in the future I'm going to look at tidying the whole thing up as I do feel that long tables don't look good ;) Maybe something like this Template:PTR_2008, which I created for a race series I'm involved with. It'll mean creating a page for each episode so lots of work will be needed. The original page of Astronomy Cast episodes is now hanging orphan and I guess it could do with being deleted Violentbob (talk) 11:25, 11 June 2008 (UTC)