Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomical objects/Archive 29

RFC concerning TOI-1338
There is an RFC at Talk:TOI-1338 and any input would be appreciated. Lithopsian (talk) 13:14, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

PR on Pulsar planet
If anyone is interested, I've opened Peer review/Pulsar planet/archive1 to see if this article would work as a GA. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 16:45, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Edit request(s)/Discussion: Add a "Coordinates" field to the infobox templates
Greetings and felicitations. Might a "Coordinates" field be added to the relevant infobox templates so that the Sky templates can be moved into the infoboxes, as is standard for the Coord template for terrestrial locations (e.g. Infobox settlement) and events (e.g. Infobox military conflict)? — DocWatson42 (talk) 16:09, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Does it need to be consolidated with the current coordinates fields? That may require a change to the use of the RA and Dec templates. Right now we're already using a separate coordinates template, so it's unclear why it needs to be consolidated with the infobox. It may not be worth the effort. Praemonitus (talk) 14:21, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm not certain if it needs to be consolidated. I'm not very familiar with this project's infobox(es).  My immediate example of where I'd like to add the coordinates to the infobox is Mintaka, and the (recent) initial one is Crab Nebula, which both have separate  templates.  If I'm just missing how to do that, please tell me how.  Perhaps the infobox's coordinates just need to also be displayed at the top of the article? — DocWatson42 (talk) 16:16, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Okay, in thinking about it, you could pass the strings for the RA and DEC templates as new, unique parameters. Say, for discussion purposes, coord-RA="14|39|36.49400" and coord-DEC="−60|50|02.3737". Those strings could (somehow) then be passed into RA, DEC, and sky templates, and evaluated, using something like an eval execution. Is that feasible with this technology? Praemonitus (talk) 03:17, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm not capable of answering, as I am nowhere near good or knowledgeable enough with the script language(?) to put that into practice (thus my presence here), so I hope you're addressing the greater audience. —DocWatson42 (talk) 05:07, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * If this isn't anything someone needs handling this week, I can take a look at the template side of this next week after the heavy lifting on my ArbCom case is done. Primefac (talk) 07:48, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you. ^_^ —DocWatson42 (talk) 10:44, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Moons of Saturn and WP:NASTRO
User:FilipinoGuy0995 has created a raft of articles about recently-discovered moons of Saturn. I don't think these pass NASTRO, but I thought I'd best ask here first before making a fool of myself at XfD (as I am prone to do). Edward-Woodrow :) [ talk ] 14:44, 11 August 2023 (UTC)


 * When people create these stubs, I wish they could say something unique about the object other than just listing time-sensitive orbital elements. Mention an orbital resonance, the potential for an impact with another moon, etc.-- Kheider (talk) 15:21, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
 * The reason there's nothing else on such stub pages is because there's no other published information available. I agree with the lack of NASTRO: I'd support rapid deletion for all of them. - Parejkoj (talk) 19:21, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Is there some tool to multi-nominate pages for AfD? Because there are about fifty of these. Edward-Woodrow :) [ talk ] 20:08, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I'd condense them all into a single page and redirect. Saves an AFD while still allowing or searchability. But no, there is no easy way to mass-nominate pages other than with manually tagging via something like AWB. Primefac (talk) 08:56, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

Lists of minor planets
From 2012 to 2022, has made many thousands of edits to keep the various lists of minor solar system planets, discoveries and observers in order. They have stopped editing in October 2022 (maybe taking a long break, maybe leaving entirely). Rfassbind certainly deserves the break. However, maintenance of those lists has stopped almost entirely since they've left, and that maintenance is our responsibility now. Affected are the lists linked from List of named minor planets (alphabetical) and List of minor planets.

About 1,100 new asteroid names have been announced since then. I have started to put those into a table on my sandbox (here), but I don't know how to finish that table (provisional designations are missing), and how to add them to the existing Meanings of minor-planet names in an efficient way. Rfassbind probably used a script to do so, but I can't find one published on their user page. Can anyone help, or are we giving up on those lists? To my knowledge, since the death of Lutz Schmadel, Wikipedia has been the only place that has kept track of these lists, and it would be a shame to lose that.

I am tagging, who have communicated with Rfassbind about those lists before (like here). Renerpho (talk) 08:45, 4 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Well that is the elephant in the room with these pseudo-trivia lists: who is going to keep maintaining and updating them? The only list that really matters is: List of minor planets: 1–1000. After that, the objects of interest are going to grow increasingly rare. The List of minor planets: 99001–100000 page has just three linked articles out of a thousand. We have many articles of greater interest that need more TLC. Praemonitus (talk) 14:16, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

Moons of saturn... again.
See the above section for context. Okay, so I AfD'd (Articles for deletion/S/2005 S 4) and the result was to merge to Inuit Group. Working from that as precedent, I boldly BLAR'd the other 50-or-so related articles citing that discussion as precedent. Recently, a new user has re-added the same content to several of these redirects, including S/2005 S 4. These have been their only edits so far. Hoping to follow the "bold, revert, discuss" cycle, I'm inviting them (and of course the participants of this project) to discuss these articles as a whole before things get out of hand. I did revert their edit to S/2005, as the existing consensus was to merge. Edward-Woodrow :) [ talk ] 20:19, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I'd like to bring up that we had a whole discussion on which irregular moon articles to keep at Talk:Moons_of_Jupiter/Archive_2, but it turned into a whole debacle where User:Double sharp and I boldly made redirects that got people opposing our actions, so we ultimately didn't get rid of anything. It looks like we'll have to revisit that debate once more now with Saturn's 63 new irregular moons. Nrco0e (talk) 00:31, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

Authority control on minor planets?
What do we think of adding, , and other relevant identifiers to the Authority control template, in either the existing AC section "Other", or in a new section called "Scientific"?

JPL small body, NeoDys, and other templates exist, but they each require separate placement on each page, while Authority control would be able to capture all current and future database inclusions, and automatically display them compactly at the bottom of the page. I'm not suggesting Authority control replace JPL small body, etc., since they provide much more info, but that Authority control be used regardless.

Courtesy ping to ~ I hope he is well and chooses to return to editing. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 16:33, 24 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Posted @ WT:AST. Please only reply there.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  18:48, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Starbox
We know that many stars are so far away that, by the time their light reaches us, the stars themselves are long since gone. So, too, are the wikitext markup of templates, which echo out through the decades... anyway, what's the deal with Template:Starboxes? I guess there are a lot of infoboxes that are composed of individual templates. Is anyone interested in converting this to a module? I've never done this before but I would be willing to help. jp×g 02:50, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Well no, most stars last for millions to billions of years, and their light normally reaches us in up to just a few thousand years. The starbox templates work okay as they are; no star system requires the use of every starbox template, so this level of flexibility is needed. Praemonitus (talk) 06:19, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Possibly Template:Starbox observe 2s and Template:Starbox observe 3s can be merged with Template:Starbox observe into a single template that admits multiple sets of parameters. –LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄ ) 10:42, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Porting all that template code correctly into Lua, and then correctly updating the wikicode for all ~5,300 pages that use those templates seems like a royal pain in the ***.
 * I ported the various segments of Navseasoncats template code piecemeal into Lua, if only to not break the existing functionality. Because the scope of that template increased dramatically after doing do, I wish I had rewritten the Lua code from scratch. I don't see the same "issue" with the Starbox templates though, so subsuming the templates into Lua one at a time over time is probably the best way to do it.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  15:15, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Folks at WP:TFD can use bots for merging uses over. Of course, it depends on exactly what is being merged into what. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 06:28, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Replace 'Brocchi's Cluster' with 'Double Cluster'
On the level 5 VA talk page, I'm suggesting replacing Brocchi's Cluster with Double Cluster. Please comment on that suggestion. Thanks. Praemonitus (talk) 15:11, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

"Hottest planet" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hottest_planet&redirect=no Hottest planet] has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached. Thryduulf (talk) 14:23, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

List of minor planets: 624001–625000 nominated for deletion
@ Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of minor planets: 624001%E2%80%93625000, the scope of which affects many of these list pages. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 11:12, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

& @ Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Meanings of minor planet names: 623001–624000. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 23:52, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of 2MASX J22550681+0058396 (and many other stubs by User:Galaxybeing) for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article 2MASX J22550681+0058396 is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/2MASX J22550681+0058396 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished. Parejkoj (talk) 17:37, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

I've also nominated many other articles created by User_talk:Galaxybeing, and there are more yet to delete. We'll see if the author responds. - Parejkoj (talk) 17:38, 8 May 2024 (UTC)