Talk:Sputnik 1

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Italics

There seems to be some confusion as to the proper formatting of the name. Most occurrences in this article are in normal type, but some are italicized. Which is correct?--Khajidha (talk) 11:17, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

@Khajidha: I think that it should be italicized according to the Wikipedia Manual of Style/Titles. See MOS:T Section 1.2. Names of ships, including spaceships, should be italicized. PopularOutcast ^talk2me 18:00, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Kees08, should mentions of Sputnik and Sputnik 1 be in italics? --- Coffeeandcrumbs 01:47, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Sputnik 1 should be in italics. When referring to the Sputnik rocket, Sputnik should not be italicized. When referring to the Sputnik satellite program, it should not be italicized. When referring to Sputnik 1 (or any of the others), and shortened to Sputnik, it should be italicized. Kees08 (Talk) 01:54, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

GA work

@Ethanpet113: The article is a bit far from GA as it is; the cleanup tag notwithstanding, there are a lot of paragraphs that are uncited. I recommend you try to get them cited before someone picks up the review, or else it might fail a little quickly. Kees08 (Talk) 08:05, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Citation style

@Coffeeandcrumbs: I find the current citation style really hard to work with; would you be amenable to changing it to either sfn, harvnb, or similar? I think sfn is the simplest of those types personally, but I am sure not all agree. Kees08 (Talk) 07:52, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

Agreed. Choose which ever you like. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 09:34, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

Harvard designator

I think there's room in this article to explain objects 1957 Alpha 1, 1957 Alpha 2, and 1957 Alpha 3, and why they were named that, since it was the first designation for an artificial satellite. Sources:

• Comments on Satellites
• NYT

Plan to incorporate them later, but if anyone beats me to it feel free. I made a similar edit to International Designator just now which has some explanation. Kees08 (Talk) 07:09, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Propaganda

I made a [1], and this change has a copy/paste mistake. But in the second part of this change, I believe, it was constructive change. My change was reverted (and I agree, because of copy/paste mistake). In order to avoid WP:EW I am not tried to implement my changes again (in their right part). Let's discuss here. I'll send a message in your page. What do you think about my change overall (not in the part of copy/paste mistake)? SHaggY caT (talk) 02:52, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

I suggest to add:

Sputnik-V - Russian vaccine against covid-19, which is named after the fist mankind's satellite in the LEO in order to improve efficiency of the modern Russia's propaganda. Russian propaganda claimed that Sputnik-V is the first vaccine against Covid, like Sputnik satellite was the first artificial satellite in the LEO.

SHaggY caT (talk) 17:13, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

References

The new vaccine name Sputnick V is clearly intended to remind people of Sputnick 1, but how important is this vaccine to the actual topic of Sputnick 1? To me, it looks peripheral. It doesn't change how people think of Sputnick 1. Binksternet (talk) 18:00, 20 June 2021 (UTC)