Talk:Joshua Bandfield
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 | Joshua Bandfield was nominated as a Natural sciences good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (July 7, 2026, reviewed version). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated. |
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Feedback from New Page Review process
I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: Pass of multiple WP:NPROF criteria as supported by the referenced claims I've verified. The article is set up really nicely, and worded well. Thank you for making it!
MolecularPilot Talk 00:13, 14 April 2026 (UTC)
GA review
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Nominator: RabidTuberculosis (talk · contribs) 17:30, 6 May 2026 (UTC)
Reviewer: David Eppstein (talk · contribs) 00:18, 7 July 2026 (UTC)
Serious source-text integrity issues in all but two of the sources make this a quickfail per WP:GAFAIL #1. The only sources in which I did not find this sort of problem were [3] and [5], out of 18 sources in the current June 17 version.
"American planetary scientist." [1]: Source gives birth and death dates but does not say anything about his nationality and only indirectly refers to planetary science.
lead scientist for THEMIS and DLRE [2]: Source mentions research with these experiments but not "lead scientist" role.
cold spots [3]: ok; crater in his honor [4]: ok
undergrad degrees from cv [5]: ok
Ph.D. topic, advisor, year [6][7]: both references mention Bandfield but otherwise appear totally irrelevant
Ames in 2000 and Goddard until 2002 [8]: reference mentions Bandfield but otherwise appears totally irrelevant
ASU and Chandler-Gilbert, MRO aerobraking, Phoenix landing [9]: deadlink reference, archived version mentions Bandfield but otherwise appears totally irrelevant
Mars Exploration Rover [10]: primary source coauthored by Bandfield appears totally irrelevant (it is about spectroscopic observations of the Martian surface, not even about experiments related to the Rover)
thermal emission spectrometer on the Mars Global Surveyor and 2001 Mars Odyssey [11][12]: 11 reports on research performed using Odyssey data but does not report that he had anything to do with developing its instrumentation. Does not mention Global Surveyor. [12] is coauthored by Bandfield but otherwise totally irrelevant (about the Moon, not Mars).
UWash, DLRE, climate sounder on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter [13]: doesn't mention UWash; calls him "participating scientist" on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter but not co-investigator; doesn't mention climate sounder
2000 cold spots (again) [3][14][15]: [3] ok; [14] cites and mentions Bandfield but nothing about his discovery of cold spots; [15] is coauthored by Bandfield and appears to be about the bulk thermal properties of the moon rather than cold spots.
appointed to SSI in 2013 [16][17]: [16] states title but not date of appointment; [17] states only that he worked for the SSI (in 2019) without any detail
operator for OSIRIS-REx; died 2019 [18]: The source gives only his death year, nothing about OSIRIS-REx
Bandfield crater named in his honor; size and location of crater [4]: relation to Mare Smythii not mentioned; otherwise ok
—David Eppstein (talk) 00:18, 7 July 2026 (UTC)