Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outer-grazer


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The result was delete. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 03:55, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Outer-grazer

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It would appear to me that the reason this article (and its twin, and its French cousin) has attracted no references since it it was created in 2004 is that it is a neologism created... who knows? I certainly don't - that has not been accepted into the standard glossary of astronomy. WP:BEFORE done and it would appear that this term only appears in Mirrors and forks of this article. A search for this term in the Astrophysics Data System yields nothing of substance. In my opinion, the WP:NOTNEO test for neologisms applies here, and in 2023 that test is not passed. As always, please do prove me wrong. Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 09:55, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Draftify For improving with references Christopheronthemove (talk) 10:06, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete The phrase is defined in James Hall's Moons of the Solar System: From Giant Ganymede to Dainty Dactyl and it does come up on a lot of WP articles about orbits - but I agree, it's all (apart from that one book) WP-sourced - citogenesis? Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 10:47, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Astronomy-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 12:34, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete I agree with the comments of Shirt58 and Alexandermcnabb. I also note that the term "grazer" can be highly inaccurate if not actually misleading as, for example, an object with a high-inclination orbit might not "graze" any other orbiting body (we're not talking about sungrazing comets here). JoJo Anthrax (talk) 14:24, 15 March 2023 (UTC)


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