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Number of moons inconsistency

"Uranus's 28 natural satellites include 18 known regular moons, ... at a much greater distance from Uranus are the nine known irregular moons."

18 plus 9 does not equal 28; this discrepancy should be addressed. Do "Regular moons" and "Irregular moons" not partition the set of "moons"? (Are there moons which are both regular and irregular? Are there moons which are neither?)

98.110.52.169 (talk) 17:13, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's because for a long while it was 27 and everyone forgot to update this line when a tenth irregular moon was discovered. :) Fixed by changing "nine" to "ten". Double sharp (talk) 03:01, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Use of narrow gaps instead of commas as thousand separators in science articles

According to the Manual of Style, you may use as a thousand separator either a comma or a narrow gap (obtained by using the template {{gaps}}).

Nonetheless, the Manual of Style also states that grouping of digits using narrow gaps is “especially recommended for articles related to science, technology, engineering or mathematics”. This is due to the fact that it's the normalized way in the international standards (ISO/IEC 80000 and International System of Units), and also it's the recommended style by ANSI and NIST.

Proposal: Change to format numbers with gaps (for example, "159354.11 km" instead of "159,354.11 km").

Note: I do the proposal instead of changing it myself because, since it's a featured article, I believe it's better to gain consensus beforehand.

Thanks. RGLago (talk) 17:47, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]