Talk:Meanings of minor-planet names

Auto-grey redirects via Lua?
I saw this and thought I could write a small helper template, like Meanings of minor planet names/Grey, that will check the page for a redirect and return the necessary table wikitext to grey it out, and otherwise return normal table wikitext. What do you think? ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 11:55, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi . Sure, go for it!  R fassbind  – talk  12:53, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Also consider to reuse some of your new code for the templates and, where automatic #R-detection and greying-out links could be applied as well, I think.   R fassbind  – talk  13:08, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, between the helper template & LinkCatIfExists2, I believe I can cover all cases.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  13:53, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Totally forgot about this, but finally got around to it, via MoMP index element...  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  22:01, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

External links in lists
Hi, would it be possible to turn all the references on the subpages (the lists) to proper references with. I find it confusing that these pages have a different system and use other symbols. Including other information about the url such as name and archive url also helps the verifiability long term. See also Bare URLs. Dajasj (talk) 05:56, 20 September 2023 (UTC)


 * I agree. These should be turned into proper citations. Rublamb (talk) 14:42, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Rating partial MoMP lists & redirects
I think having the partial lists classified as list from inception is the best option (as opposed to redirect or &lt;blank&gt;), whether or not they are currently a redirect, or have already been turned into a proper list. 2 reasons for this: One of the goals, I think, is to minimize the steps necessary to bring a page out of dormancy as a redirect to a proper list, which list does, with no real downside. Ping to who has done some recent rating here. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 14:30, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
 * 1) the category output of WikiProject banner shell is the same for both #Rs and for proper lists (easily tested on non-#R &  examples) due to its redirect-detection
 * 2) using redirect or &lt;blank&gt; places the page into 4 unassessed WikiProject categories (list, ast, astro, & ss) once the page becomes a proper list, which adds more work to be done after a page is converted from a redirect, and into  if redirect is used
 * Yes, a redirect will automatically override the class setting, so there's no harm in setting it to 'list'. However, the way WP:AST importance ratings are assigned, a redirect has a 'na' importance while a 'list' will have a normal low/med/high/top importance. Praemonitus (talk) 05:00, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I think it's ok if the temporary #Rs are misclassified as lists for the time they remain #Rs, even if that time is lengthy, since their intended purpose and eventual destination is to be a list. Otherwise it just seems like a distinction without much of a difference. But, if you want to keep track of that, go for it.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  17:24, 8 July 2024 (UTC)