Talk:Barnard's Star

Irrelevant paragraph
Noticed following attempt of hilarity in the first section of the article: Barnard's Star is also known for it's most interior rocky planet which had a thriving civilisation entirely composed of St. Bernard dogs almost one and a half thousand years ago. Under pressure from the lack of the letter a on the planet, they were forced to change their name from Barnard to Bernard to make a saving of almost 50% on the aforementioned letter. The inhabitants of this planet sent a mission to colonize Earth, but upon arrival, they found that human civilization was far more advanced then they first realised and they have been entirely subsumed by human society and are now little more than pets.

Needless to say, the comedy talent of the writer of the above is clearly wasted on Wikipedia. Paragraph removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.13.83.241 (talk) 20:17, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes ... the comedian is almost ready for amateur night at the Kwik-Pik. Sigh. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.111.48.50 (talk) 19:54, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

BARNARD'S ARROW
In several different places, including in the nonfiction works of Isaac Asimov, I have read of an alternative name for this star - Barnard's Arrow. That one is certainly pertinent, since this (invisible) star is noteworthy because of its high proper motion. How such a noteworthy name has been missed by the writers of this article (as of July 2017) is a deep mystery. This article does mention some other esoteric "names" that come from astronomy catalogs. Not knowing that Barnard's Star is "Barnard's Arrow" is rather like not knowing that Mars is "The Red Planet", and New York City is "The Big Apple". By the way, the visible star that has the largest proper motion is 61 Cygni, and this one is visible from the Northern Hemisphere, where most of our habitable land is. (The Southern Hemisphere is covered by 80% ocean, and that 20% of land includes Antarctica, which has no permanent residents.) 47.215.183.159 (talk) 17:56, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

Planet discovery
Sourced and reffed in the lead. This is a tidy page that already references the (non-)discovery of planets. Lets work in the discovery in a way that flows. Dontreadalone (talk) 22:17, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

Merger proposal
The planet candidate Barnard's Star b was refuted in 2021, with a 2022 study further supporting this result. While an argument could be made against merging as this was a nearby planet candidate that received some attention, like Alpha Centauri Bb, the planet article is fairly short and all information can easily be covered in this article. See also e.g. the refuted planets of Kapteyn's Star that were merged. SevenSpheres (talk) 23:48, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Support: at best just a candidate, at worst nothing at all. Doesn't merit a separate article despite considerable popular coverage (being basically just dozens of repeats of a press release about the original discovery).  Lithopsian (talk) 09:45, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Support in principle. I'm not clear that all the extra bloat is needed; the current content seems sufficient. Certainly the planet infobox doesn't need to be included. Praemonitus (talk) 14:13, 24 September 2023 (UTC)