Talk:John Dobson (amateur astronomer)

message: I've tried to add something about John's cosmological model, but I don't really understand it so I doubt it's very accurate. If anyone wants to have a go at researching and improving it (whether it be from speaking to John or through his writings), it could use the work. Izogi 01:39, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I changed the links to the websites - I do John's scheduling and am the secretary for the sidewalk astronomers, all email eventually comes to me. The links you had are to websites that haven't been updated regularly, in fact, the only updates are when information has been copied from the .us website. Please change them back - the schedules and information on the .us website is as updated as it changes. If you wish to contact me to verify this information, please check the .us website for my email address.
:Ah, okay.  Point taken, and I'll remove the johndobson.org link.  Thanks for explaining.  In case you didn't realise, I should point out that I moved the link to the documentaries to the opening paragraph, as external link citations from where they're (now) described.  It didn't seem very obvious what they were from the external links. Izogi 20:52, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  links 

message: This article and the articles related to this subject mistakenly label "The Dobsonian" as just a mount design. This seems to be incorrect. "The Dobsonian" is an entire telescope "mount" and "tube assembly" design incorporating innovations attributed to John Dobson.(Halfblue 06:16, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Dobsonian

message: Just like to say that 'J.D' stayed with me and my family in September 2006. Fantastic guy, oodles of knowledge. It was a pleasure meeting him.Dapi89 00:05, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  General Info 

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message: I did some work on this section to tone down the general rhetoric. I think that we can discuss his viewpoints without feeling the obligation to aggrandize nor denigrate them. Remember this is the biography of a living person so we need to follow the WP:LIVE guidelines.Trilobitealive (talk) 15:34, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree and have done a touch more cleanup re:verifiability.Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 19:48, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Big Bang/ Dobson's cosmology section

message: This article seems to miss the sidewalk astronomy/street performance aspect of Dobsons career. Its an activity he still engages in and everything he is know for seems to have grown out of it (i.e he was thrown out of the monastery for it, he designed the dobsonian telescope for that activity, The San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers were organized from that activity, etc). There is a good BIO ref that describes it all at http://www.telescopedobsonian.com/jd.html. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 15:46, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Sidewalk/Street performance

message: :(John Dobson) was a direct descendant of the British astronomer John Pond, which inspired his early interest in the field. ref Jeffrey Fox Jacobs, "A Sidewalk Astronomer", documentary film, Copyright 2005, Jacobs Entertainment Inc./ref
Rm'ed this to talk because the claim shows up in no online bio of Dobson. May be true but needs check and maybe transcript quote. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 17:26, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: John Dobson direct descendant of John Pond?

message: It seems clear he is best known for the "Dobsonian" design, so this should be in S1.  Unless there is an objection, I will rework the lead a bit to make that S1, with the popularizing 2nd to that.Unfriend14 (talk) 20:29, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sentence 1 

message: So, yeah, it looks pretty trivial.  While the cosmology thing was clearly important to him, and merits mention in his obits, I am not sure this 2004 docuthing is worth mentioning.  It is in the ELs.  Original remover may have been right.Unfriend14 (talk) 07:16, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Cosmology Quest" 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Just a general Wiki question. This article has more than three sections, so why wasn't a TOC generated automatically? Perhaps because sections got added later on? Pekoebrew (talk) 17:30, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It was TOC right, I removed it. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 01:50, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: So you removed it just yesterday? Maybe I missed the TOC on the right side. But that huge blank space looks awful, I will put in TOC left. Feel free to revert if you must. Thanks for answering :) Pekoebrew (talk) 02:54, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I reverted it since TOC left with blank space is standard MOS. Removing blank space set up MOS:SANDWICHING. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 13:43, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Guess there's no accounting for MOS taste. Thanks for the lesson. Pekoebrew (talk) 22:07, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why no TOC?