[WikiEN-l] Re: minor issue, but still a npov warning

Sat Jan 15 06:15:31 UTC 2005

Anthere wrote:

> Till yesterday, the information on landing and on the probe was 
> entirely in the mission article. Even today, most of the information 
> was still in the mission article, not on the landing one. To such a 
> point there is currently no wikipedia reference on the net about the 
> landing article. Wikipedia reference is on the mission article.

Why would that be the right thing to do?  The landing is merely one part 
if the mission---The [[Apollo 11]] page, by comparison, doesn't have one 
article on the trip *to* the moon, and a separate article on the moon 
landing.  There's one article on the entire mission, trip and landing, 
and then separate articles on the equipment, like the lunar module.  So, 
here, the landing should be in [[Cassini-Huygens]], unless we're talking 
about detailed information about how the landing was carried out by the 
probe or something like that.

I don't see how this is American bias, either.  The European Space 
Agency's own website containing the pictures of the landing has a title 
of "Cassini-Huygens", and is located here:
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/index.html

The ESA's gallery with the pictures is entitled "Cassini-Huygens images" 
(left sidebar on the above site).

I just don't see *anyone*, including the ESA, using "Huygens" as a 
separate name for the landing, only as the name of the piece of 
equipment.  So it would seem reasonable that we use the name that both 
NASA and the ESA use, which is "Cassini-Huygens".

-Mark