Talk:SpaceX Starship development

Replacing main image?

I feel like updating the first image on the page would be relevant, as SN9 is a little old news. Cocobb8 (talk) 03:54, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Copyedits

I"m doing a copyedit. Comments:

• The article should be renamed SpaceX Starship System development.
• First pass removed a lot of minutiae and shortened the article by ~40%. More to go.

Lfstevens (talk) 04:53, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

Colors in tables, and accessibility

There's an accessibility tag at the top of the article about the colors used in tables. By my testing, every color/text combination gets a triple A accessibility rating. Can we remove the tag? If not, any proposals for how to adjust the colors? DFlhb (talk) 16:58, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

It doesn't actually get a triple AAA against link color, see {{ColorCell}} and MOS:COLORS. The article used to employ common table cell templates with an associated meaning instead of a (new) arbitrary pallette. {{ColorCell}} was created by the same editor that applied it to this page. I would suggest going back to templates with meaning as follows:

Template used before 2022	Current use of {{ColorCell}}	Proposed color	Proposed template
Under construction	Under construction	Under construction	{{scheduled}}
Not present	At site	At site	{{active}}
Scrapped	Scrapped	Scrapped	{{unreleased}}
Intentionally destroyed	Intentionally destroyed	Intentionally destroyed	{{terminated}}
Destroyed	Destroyed	Destroyed	{{lost}}
Retired	Retired	Retired	{{dropped}}

--Fernando Trebien (talk) 23:23, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

I'd missed the link colors. Support the proposed colors, better than the current and the old. Though I believe the color for "retired" is unchanged between old and proposed — DFlhb (talk) 00:16, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

Just to be sure, do you propose we use the old color (and template) for retired? It's the same color and template proposed for intentionally destroyed. I'm ok with the coincidence, but some might prefer a distinction. --Fernando Trebien (talk) 00:55, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

I'm proposing we use the new, but I think it used to be yellow, not pink — DFlhb (talk) 09:59, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

You are right. I fixed this in the table above. --Fernando Trebien (talk) 11:44, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

Shouldn't "Scrapped" and "Intentionally destroyed" be the same? {{u|Gtoffoletto}}  ^talk 11:53, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

They could employ the same template, but I think they mean slightly different things in the article. I think scrapped refers to the idea of disposal during construction taking parts to reuse, while intentionally destroyed refers to irrecoverable disposal after construction during some operation, usually a test. --Fernando Trebien (talk) 15:31, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

Article will be merged

NOTICE TO ALL EDITORS: This article has been nominated to be merged into the SpaceX Starship. @Gtoffoletto will be proceeding with the merge. Cocobb8 (talk) 14:27, 6 May 2023 (UTC)