Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of comets bearing names


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. The article may need to be renamed to more accurately convey the limitations of its coverage. BD2412 T 03:52, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

List of comets bearing names

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Unfortunately this fails WP:LISTN: there isn't much coverage of named comets as a group separate from non-named ones. buidhe 18:43, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Too bad. I find it interesting to view the comets that actually bear names of people. Avram25 (talk) 19:00, 29 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Astronomy-related deletion discussions. buidhe 18:43, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 19:15, 29 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep We have a list of numbered comets and so it is sensible to have a list of those with names too. Sources such as The Greatest Comets in History and the Atlas of Great Comets seem fine for this purpose. Andrew🐉(talk) 20:02, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
 * KEEP Perfect valid list article. Blue links to most of the things on the list, so it aids in navigation, listing things that should logically be grouped together.   D r e a m Focus  00:29, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. appropriate navigational article., complementary to similar lists.  DGG ( talk ) 10:04, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per above discussion - useful navigation tool, clearly notable list, and does not do away with a category. Bearian (talk) 20:05, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. There are some fundamental misunderstandings that have led to the keep votes. Lets remove them. The argument that we have a list of numbered comets so why not this? cannot be made here because all comets are numbered comets. There are no comets without numbers. For example take Halley's Comet, it is featured on the list with names, but if we read the lede there it says the designation is 1P/Halley. So this is the first misunderstanding that there are some named comets and some numbered comets. I invite editors to go through Naming of comets for further clarification. The second argument is that it aids in navigation. This is not true, rather it creates misunderstandings and readers get the impression that there are two kinds of naming traditions for comets, while there is essentially one. From this viewpoint the list can fall under WP:HOAX if viewed with enough criticism. The third is a semantic thing. The title of the list is List of comets bearing names. So what are other comets? Bearing no names? Even if there is a number attached to a comet (an that is not the case here, these are not asteroids), is that number not its name? Should there be a list called list of nameless comets? A list of comets bearing names should include all comets ever found but I digress. I invite User:Bearian,User:DGG, user:Andrew Davidson and other to reconsider. MistyGraceWhite (talk) 16:08, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Not so. The list of numbered comets only lists periodic comets that have been seen more than once.  See naming of comets for details of the various schemes. Andrew🐉(talk) 16:53, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Good point, P/1999 J6 for example is not a nameless comet. But I don't know how to call that kind of name: cryptic name? code name? Or how to call the name Halley's Comet - literal name? I just wanted a list of comets that have some non-cryptic names, I really can't find the right word for that, maybe someone with better English can help? Maybe "List of proper names of comets"? - Avram25 (talk) 19:39, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * The full list of comets (with the exceptions of the ones mentioned by AD) have standard numbers. Numbers are one form of nomenclature. Non-standard names are another complementary form of nomenclature. I would not have thought readerswould confuse the two, but from the comments above, it seems that they do. That shouldn't affect keepingthe article--how totitle thearticle can bea separate discussion. DGG ( talk ) 19:52, 3 May 2020 (UTC)


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