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I've listed this article for peer review because I've got it passed to GA level and am musing on FAC at some point, but I am still finding my feet with Astronomy articles. All input appreciated.
Thanks, Casliber (talk · contribs) 21:19, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
- Yomangani's comments (in no particular order)
- The image in the infobox is too small to be of any use
- "created in the sixteenth century" - "first named"? I don't think the advancements of the Renaissance quite stretched to star manufacture
- Bit of overlinking/underlinking? Mundus Novus would be a good red link but unfortunately it's been redirected to New World
- "and round out the triangle" - I love those round triangles (though square hexagons are my favourite paradoxical shape)
- You introduce "spectral class" without a link and then switch to "stellar classification" which is linked.
- light-year and parsec are linked several times which doesn't help the sea of blue effect (do we care about parsecs anyway? You use only light-years later in the article)
- "Nicolas Louis de Lacaille gave twelve stars Bayer designations of Alpha through to Lambda" - he did a lot more than that; put "in this constellation" somewhere in there maybe.
- "absolute magnitude" is linkable
- "yet in reality is a much more powerful star that lies further away" - imprecise...
- ... and followed in the next paragraph by "yet is actually" - vary the sentence structure
- "Its notable features include..." - the whole section is titled "Notable features" so either everything up to this point has been introduction or this is restating the obvious
- By the end of the "Notable features" section, I'm still fairly unclear on the number of stars in the constellation - the link to List of stars in Triangulum Australe, the template "Stars of Triangulum Australe" and the infobox only help to muddy the waters further as none of them agree.
- I think having the "History" section before the "Notable Features" would make better sense, especially as you have some history at the beginning of the "Notable Features" section
- "Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci explored the Americas..." - somewhat anachronistic. Perhaps "explored the New World"
- "He grew to know the stars in the southern celestial hemisphere and made a catalogue for his patron king Manuel I of Portugal, which is now lost. I" - presumably that is cited from the same book as at the end of the next sentence, but I could see a "citation needed" tag appearing on that at FAC
- Aha! I tucked a commented out "cites previous three sentences" there for the eyes of anyone opening it up to slap a [citation needed] tag there.... 14:33, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
- "32½-cm" - the metric system wouldn't be around for another 200 years
- "German poet and author Philippus Caesius saw the three main stars as representing the Three Patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (with Atria as Abraham).[33]" - that's a bit out of place with the rest of the section and the article, Why don't you create a section called "In Popular Culture" (with that capitalization) and add it there?
- The "History" section doesn't tell us when it was named "Triangulum Australe". The implication is that it was named by Lacaille in 1756 but this isn't explicit.
Not bad overall though, it's not too stodgy considering its subject matter. Yomanganitalk 12:47, 3 October 2012 (UTC)