Talk:Stellar

I removed the reference to Princess TJ in the introduction. Originally it looked like this: "Typically, stellar is an adjective referring to one or more stars. starlet like Princess TJ. See also:"  Perhaps it was misplaced? 209.107.121.184 21:32, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Cleanup
This disambiguation page was marked for cleanup per MOS:DAB. I removed the following entries per WP:D, which states In other words, disambiguations are paths leading to the different article pages that could use essentially the same term as their title. Therefore, I replaced them with lookfrom.

– sgeureka t•c 16:21, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
 * The Narrabri Stellar Intensity Interferometer was the first astronomical instrument to measure the diameters of a large number of stars at visible wavelengths.
 * Stellar aberration is an astronomical phenomenon defined as an apparent motion of the heavenly bodies due to a combination of the motion of the Earth and the finite velocity of light.
 * A stellar association is a very loose star cluster, looser than both open clusters and globular clusters.
 * Stellar astronomy is the study of stars and the phenomena exhibited by the various forms/developmental stages of stars. Timeline of stellar astronomy
 * Stellar atmosphere. Different stars have different atmospheres.
 * A stellar black hole is a black hole formed by the collapse of a massive star at the end of its lifetime.
 * Stellar cartography. In astronomy, a term used to refer to the mapping of stars, nebula, and other interstellar phonomena.
 * Stellar Course Management System, an online course webpage system from MIT.
 * Stellar classification is a classification of stars based initially on photospheric temperature and its associated spectral characteristics, and subsequently refined in terms of other characteristics.
 * Stellar dynamics is the branch of astrophysics which describes in a statistical way the collective motions of stars subject to their mutual gravity.
 * A stellar engine is a hypothetical propulsion device that employs a significant part of a star's radiation to change the star's velocity (literally: an engine for a star).
 * Stellar evolution is the sequence of changes that a star undergoes during its lifetime, the millions or billions of years during which it emits light and heat.
 * Stellar International, a racing team
 * Stellar Loussier is a fictional character in the anime series Gundam SEED Destiny.
 * Stellar magnitude. The apparent magnitude (m) of a star, is a measure of its apparent brightness; that is, the amount of light received from the star.
 * Stellar navigation
 * Stellar near-collision
 * Stellar nucleosynthesis is the collective term for the nuclear reactions taking place in stars to build the nuclei of the heavier elements.
 * Stellar parallax is the change of angular position of two stars relative to each other as seen from earth, due to the different orbital positions of the Earth.
 * Stellar population. Stars can be grouped into two general types called Population I and Population II.
 * Stellar spectra/Stellar spectroscopy
 * Stellar Stone, an American game developer.
 * Stellar structure
 * Stellar system is a grouping of one or more stars, with (sometimes) non-stellar planetary systems, having a common centre of gravity.
 * Stellar uplifting refers to the theoretic prospect of converting lifeless stellar matter into intelligent and sentient substrate.
 * Stellar wind. A solar wind is a stream of charged particles (i.e., a plasma) which are ejected from the upper atmosphere of a star.
 * The Combination of Stellar Influences is a significant astrological reference and research text.
 * The Mooseheart Faith Stellar Groove Band was a Los Angeles based rock band, who operated their own record label, now defunct, called Stellar Records.

Astrophysical Terms for Wikipedians searching for stellar properties
It is very common for physicists to search for steller, knowing there are many astrophysical properties starting with that term, and many terms that include it. Rather than doing a general search and getting thousands of hits with no order, I collected most of the astrophysical terms in a list. I did not want to dominate the page with this long list, so I used a fixed height div.

I looked at lookfrom|stellar - - but it does not distinguish astrophysical terms and it does not allow for searching for "stellar " with a space after it to separate out multiword terms. It would be nice if the prefix search could be generalized to include wildcards like "stellar *" for stellar followed by a word, or "* stellar" for a word followed by stellar.

I have been looking at categories, disambiguation pages, lists and regular articles. There is a continuum from Category Trees, to pages from pure automatic lists (categories), categories pages with some text and references, disambiguation pages with lists and references, lists with many page names embedded in a repeated pattern, and regular articles with many embedded page names and category names.

I think we need new ways to organize lists page names for rapid searching. Here I am suggesting something that might work until we can improve it. A lot of Category, disambiguation, list of, lists of, and redirect pages could be database driven with editors interacting with the database to modify classifications, add hierarchical searches, manage aliases, and generally improve Wikipedia.

Please contact me if you have questions about what I did, or suggestions for better ways to organize Wikipedia. RC711 (talk) 22:53, 30 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment This was RC711's version, later modified by Bgwhite to this version.  I've reverted the changes because I believe they go far against WP:MOSDAB.  Pam  D  12:22, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
 * And I added a couple of useful links under "See also". Pam  D  12:25, 31 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Location of discussion: rather than have duplicated discussions in two places, I suggest we carry out any general discussion about changes to disambiguation policy etc at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disambiguation rather than here. The original poster made an expanded version of the above commente there. Pam  D  12:44, 31 May 2014 (UTC)