Talk:List of Starship Launches

Article scope

This article seems to have been created 100 percent out of copying large swathes of text (and the table of two test launches to date) that were written and developed in other articles on the English Wikipedia, and is thus super redundant. Notably, Starship (rocket), BFR (rocket), and also (oddly) from the older (2016 SpaceX concept for a 12-meter diameter spaceship) ITS launch vehicle.

It is not that those are unrelated. It is is that this article, a List of Starship launches should be, in my mind, about just that: 1) a list, and 2) of exclusively Starship launches.

Seems a bit premature to even have a "List of ..." article, since their are only two today, and they were already well covered by the Testing section of the Starship article.

In short, it is super redundant, and should be cut back substantially by removing the redundant text, or maybe even deleted completely until their is a much larger set of Starship launches than the two mere engine tests today.

What do others think? N2e (talk) 13:45, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

I agree. Most of the space in a list ought to be the list, not the supporting text. If there aren't enough items to put on the list for that, it's too soon for a list. But it occurs to me we may never want a list of Starship launches. If it achieves its advertised level of reuse and rapid reflight, that would be like having a list of Boeing 747 takeoffs. Fcrary (talk) 14:57, 24 April 2019 (UTC)