Talk:Destination Moon

Reorg

   I found a single section with no immediately visible sign of why the items were in that order. I organized it bcz moving the text around was more effective than trying to comprehend it in place, and saved it even tho that was just the start of cleaning the page up; it looked like this (except that here i've disabled features that are troublesome on a talk page):

Destination Moon may refer to:

== Musical works ==

• Songs
  • "Destination Moon", a song by Dinah Washington on her Dinah '62 album
  • "Destination Moon", a song by They Might Be Giants from John Henry (album)
• Albums
  • "Destination Moon", an album by the Ames Brothers, 1958
  • Destination Moon (album), an album by Deborah Cox

== Moving-image works ==

• Destination Moon (film), a 1950 science fiction film
• "Destination Moon" (Rugrats episode), an episode of Rugrats

== Other titled works ==

• "Destination Moon" (story), by Robert Heinlein
• Destination Moon (Tintin), comic book in the Tintin series
• Destination Moon (book), a book about the American Apollo program

{{disambig}}

eo:Destination Moon

That format becomes unreasonable bcz of sectioning changes demanded by entries needing removal, but it may still be a quick aid to organizing the page if the work gets done that would permit restoring one or more entries.
--Jerzy•t 21:24, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

   Updating:

1. The entry

   * "Destination Moon" (Rugrats episode), an episode of Rugrats

   looked like it violated DabRL, and as it turned out, not only does no article use it as a redlink, there is not even a mention of the episode on the blue-linked article: a totally useless, and thus counterproductive, users'-time-wasting Dab entry. Poking around (far beyond my personal level of interest!) it turns out that

   * [[List of Rugrats episodes#52|"Destination: Moon / Angelica's Birthday" (1994), episode of ''Rugrats'']] on television

   (* "Destination: Moon / Angelica's Birthday" (1994), episode of Rugrats on television)

   is fully compliant, rescuing the possibility of a Rugrats entry.

2. The entry

   * Destination Moon (book), a book about the American Apollo program

   is strikingly analogous, except that the only "mentions" are formal citations in the refs verifying one article -- which is still not even a real mention. And by the way, the document is not what most people mean by a book: it's a very long, typewritten memo, possibly an 8.5x11-ish-format paperback, that has probably never been sold except on special order from the Gov't Printing Office, or in used-book stores that also traffic in manuscripts (in this case, reaching them via NASA employees who kept gov't-owned copies when it became clear no one wanted them returned). I replaced it with

   * Destination Moon (book) (1977), technical report on Lunar Orbiter program

   (tho on reflection i'd prefer

   * Destination Moon (NASA) (1977), technical report on Lunar Orbiter program

   as the principle of least astonishment counsels).

3. An article on the memo may be extractable from the on-line version, by anyone with the interest, and if not, almost certainly by any prose-literate rocket scientist; if one is written, that Dab entry would become DabRL-compliant. I have given up predicting what can survive AfD, but at and for the moment i'm at least exercising every editor's discretion about which tasks to undertake, and declining the arguably timely task of removing the entry, in case that article gets written in time to save the entry.
4. So the revision i represented in the box above is not my most recent one: i changed the order significantly, reshaped the two entries that previously had red-links (replacing one red link by a blue one), lost some redundancies, and made sure each entry had a year mentioned. The link above will work even if colleagues intervene by the time you read this.
5. The accompanying Dab page is not an Evolution of Destination-Moon meme article, nor can such an article and such a Dab be combined into a single compliant WP page. (I have, however, used an editor's routine discretion as to order, to make it as easy as is consistent with clustering of entries of similar "species", for a reader to build a chronology of these instances of the meme's uses -- perhaps potentially a starting point for such an article.)

--Jerzy•t 06:36, 13 February 2012 (UTC)