Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Lyra (constellation)

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The result of the discussion was: delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 07:02, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Lyra (constellation)


Lyra only has 5 stars. There are stars in the general area in a category but most of them seem to be one paragraph stubs. The main article is quite good but the portal is no good. Does not help the reader at all. Legacypac (talk) 22:44, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment. No opinion, but List of stars in Lyra suggests there are a lot more than 5 stars? Espresso Addict (talk) 13:14, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes there is a list of stars in the area of Lyra (there are probably a gazillion if only our telescopes were powerful enough), but Lyra only consists of 5 stars. We have Portal:Astronomy which is a better fit for scope. Legacypac (talk) 02:08, 5 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment - No. Legacypac means that there are 5 visible stars in the constellation, and is defining a constellation as a pattern of visible stars.  If you define a constellation as a region in space, which is a narrow cone extending to infinity, it also includes thousands of cataloged telescopic stars in the Milky Way and a number of stars in galaxies subtended by the cone that should only be expressed using scientific notation.  Robert McClenon (talk) 03:42, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * The portal is after all Lyra (constellation) which has 5 stars only. So that is the scope.  There are 88 constellations I believe and creating a space portal for each is silly as I doubt any have 20 stars in them.  Legacypac (talk) 03:47, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * User:Legacypac - Look up List of stars in Lyra. It lists more than five visible stars.  That doesn't mean that we need a portal.  And only Vega is a bright star.  Robert McClenon (talk) 00:52, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes I referenced that list in my original statement without linking it. I'm a real estate guy, not an astronomer but I can read the page that says there are 5 "main" stars and then a bunch of related stars and stuff (I'm trying to use English not astronomy language).  Legacypac (talk) 00:59, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
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