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An ESA-maintained list of experiments is available on erasmus experiment archive.

I don't know what's the problem with "unclear citation style" - would be good @Ironholds: could elaborate on adding it to this article and a means of fixing the problem.

I would highly recommend few actions, depending on an intend of this article:

If this article is to be a list like it is now - Make this article a proper list and categorize it as such. Remove all of the red links - leave them as a plain text, if there's an article added - we should link it, but otherwise there's no point. Reorganize headers - remove "ESA reported ISS Research and Science Activity", raise all of the sub-headers one level up. Update with new experiments.

In that case: I would recommend someone with an access to bots to do it automatically, as manual edit of this article would take way too much time for what it's worth.

If not, and an intend of this article really is to describe ESA Scientific Research on ISS - write a proper article with a proper content and remove this very long list of every experiment ever made. Experiments on this list that do have an articles should be groupped into one category with this article being a cat main for it. IMHO this would be a preferred option as keeping this article always up to date would be a real nightmare, while its content value is slim, at best.

I know that this article is a spin-off from Scientific research on the International Space Station, and that article suffers from similar issues, but: one step at a time. SkywalkerPL (talk) 08:45, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@SkywalkerPL: by unclear citation style I mean that it's using raw links for URLs rather than, say, the cite web template; there's a ton of metadata in those link descriptions none of which is in a standard format. Switching them over is probably very repetitive but pretty easy (and merely easy if you know regular expressions). Ironholds (talk) 21:27, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]