Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Planetar (astronomy)


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The result was   redirect to Brown dwarf. &mdash; Coffee //  have a cup  //  beans  // 04:34, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Planetar (astronomy)

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The term "planetar" is invented. It does not appear in the scientific literature, although there are several real terms for substellar planetary-mass objects. As something that sounds plausible but is wrong, this is one of the more harmful kinds of bad article on Wikipedia. Xerxes (talk) 06:44, 13 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Brown dwarf, where the term is mentioned. This is of course a real term in astronomy, as evidenced by this Nature news artcle.. But according to this book, the term never caught on to the same extent as "brown dwarf". As a consequence, I've been unable to find multiple in depth reliable sources discussing a planetar as a separate thing from a brown dwarf. Given the RS establishing the link, it seems reasonable to redirect this article to Brown dwarf, where the term is mentioned with the minimal due weight. --Mark viking (talk) 07:22, 13 February 2015 (UTC)


 * The Nature blog is an interesting link; however, that's just a blog attributing a quote to individuals. Even those attributed individuals never use the term in the peer-reviewed literature. If we redirect, then I think substellar object is more appropriate. (That article has similar issues with the prominence of the coinage "substar", which is scant but present in the literature.) -- Xerxes (talk)


 * Redirect to ... um, well, somewhere. Quoting from this 2012 Springer-published book: "Synonyms for free-floating planets include – Inter-stellar planet, Inter-stellar comet, Isolated Planetary Mass Object (IPMO), Orphan planet, Planemo, Planetar, Rogue planet, and Sub-brown dwarf." (p. 11). Which is, you know, good times and all, since several of those terms are not strictly synonymous in actual literature (planemo, rogue planet, and sub-brown dwarf are not freely interchangeable). Maybe rogue planet is the best target, adding "planetar" to the hodgepodge list of equivalent terms already present? Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 20:32, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, -- Sam Sing! 10:02, 20 February 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, N ORTH A MERICA 1000 15:34, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
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