OK JRowe, you seem to be on the FE side so how do you account for Cepheid variables and Type1a supernovae as standard candles in distance measurement of stars? FET seems to go by the belief that they are just a few thousand miles above the plane of a flat Earth. Interesting idea to say the least.
And AllAroundTheWorld I would disagree with your claim that I am 'nit-picking'. I think a lot of Wiki claims are a bit ambiguous and hardly clear in their wording. Probably deliberately vague just like the wording of horoscopes.
I can give you several rebuttals.
1. The star measurement systems are created by round earth systems which will, by default, only provide evidence which supports a round earth.
2. There is no flat earth star measurement system. There has not been millions of dollars of research and testing to build and test a flat earth start distance measuring system.
3. You are talking about a flat earth model which claims they are thousands of miles away. That's just one of many models. There are models which claim they are billions of light years away which is corroborated by measurements you are talking about.
4. The measurements you are discussing are funded by NASA or part of the round earth system and are incorrect, inaccurate, or misleading.
5. If the stars are a thousand miles away or ten thousand miles away the earth is still flat.