Official/Unofficial name
@~2026-14568-43 (or whichever TA you are using at the time), your change is clearly controversial as it's been reverted numerous times. Please discuss here as opposed to continuing to edit war. Also pinging @Esb5415 who has also been involved in this ᴸᵃᶠᶠʸTaffer💬(they/she) 18:20, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
- My position is that astronauts don't name stuff, the IAU does.
After this mission is complete, the crater name proposals will be formally submitted to the International Astronomical Union, the organization that governs the naming of celestial bodies and their surface features.
From NASA. Saying the crater is officially named before the IAU names it is factually incorrect. ESB5415 18:24, 9 April 2026 (UTC)- the IAU is just some guys.The people on the spaceship are just some guys, oficialness does not exist ~2026-14568-43 (talk) 18:26, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
- I find this to be an unconvincing argument not in line with the sources in the article. Cerebral726 (talk) 20:16, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
- I find that to be an unconvincing argument not in line with, like, anything ~2026-21646-65 (talk) 20:20, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
- I find this to be an unconvincing argument not in line with the sources in the article. Cerebral726 (talk) 20:16, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
- I agree with this position as well. As noted on page 33 of the report summarizing the "Fourth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names" , the UN recognised the IAU's "satisfactory" work in naming planetary features and dissolved its own internal working group for planetary feature names; this is about as official as it can get, imo. Also as far as I can tell every single lunar feature on English-language Wikipedia is listed under the IAU name.
- At the same time this is a bit of an unusual case since I can't think of any other time where a lunar feature has acquired a widespread unofficial name before IAU naming (and for what it's worth I think the IAU will ultimately accept it). So I definitely lean towards keeping the article but making it extremely clear that this is not yet its official name. Shrike In Progress (talk) 21:38, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- the IAU is just some guys.The people on the spaceship are just some guys, oficialness does not exist ~2026-14568-43 (talk) 18:26, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
:::Please cite sources and Wikipedia policy to back up your position. While we discuss the change on this talk page, the page will remain in it's previous state per WP:BRD. ESB5415 18:30, 9 April 2026 (UTC) striking comment per this comment on my talk page ESB5415 19:00, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
Wife's name
First paragraph says Carroll Anne, everything else says Anne Carroll. Solicli (talk) 23:21, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks for catching that, I've adjusted to what's described in the sources as far as I can tell. ᴸᵃᶠᶠʸTaffer💬(they/she) 23:37, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
NASA photo and crater size
This image has been added to the NASA images site:
https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e012153
- A Crater of Remembrance
- NASA ID: art002e012153
- art002e012153 (April 6, 2026) - The small, bright spot in the center of the image is the crater that the Artemis II crew have proposed as Carroll, after Commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife. About 3.5 miles across (5.6 km in diameter), the proposed Carroll crater is on the nearside of the lunar surface on the western edge and would be visible from Earth with powerful telescopes.
That image and description could be used as a source for the crater's location and its visibility from Earth.
Also, note that the diameter listed there (5.6 km or 3.5 miles) is different from the unsourced figure currently included in the article infobox (2.7 km or 1.7 miles). Nick RTalk 14:26, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
More NASA info
NASA gave out more info on May 8th: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5646/ Rdgscratch is back (talk) 23:36, 15 June 2026 (UTC)