Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomy/Archive table of asteroids 1

Asteroid stubs
There's a few thousand of them, in Category:Main Belt asteroid stubs and the related asteroid stub categories. I think most of them (over 95%) should be deleted because of a lack of wp:Notability. Perhaps this has been discussed before. Debresser (talk) 23:32, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes it's been discussed a few times, but there hasn't been a consensus formed so I think we just set it aside.&mdash;RJH (talk) 00:38, 19 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I think any asteroid discovered before the advent of astrophotography should be kept. Anything that has been imaged by radar, anything imaged/studied by a spaceprobe, any used by a a goodly portion of the astrological community (if there is any besides the first few asteroids and Chiron)... 76.66.196.229 (talk) 06:54, 19 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes, there's heaps of them and very few have more to them than "12345 Random is a main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Joseph X. Bloggs at the Mt. Somewhere observatory" and then an infobox containing its orbital parameters and whatnot. Most of them, in my opinion, lack notbaility and violate our policy of Wikipedia not being a directory orindiscriminate collection of data. I think these rocks require some source that goes beyond the mere fact of its existence before they should have an article. Otherwise, merge them into a list and have an external link to the JPL asteroid database whose job actually is to list every bit of data on every known asteroid. Reyk  YO!  07:06, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

I disagree. All numbered asteroids are generally notable, because they have received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. There is no reason to delete them. You can see these AFDs:
 * Articles_for_deletion/List_of_asteroids,
 * Articles_for_deletion/List_of_asteroids/120901–121000,

where arguments based on WP:NOT were rejected. Or this one
 * Articles_for_deletion/(90569)_2004_GY14 (you can find other AFD as well).

The general opinion is that asteroids are natural objects, and as such they are probably inherently notable. They are not songs, people or companies, which can appear or disappear at any time, they have existed for billions years. Ruslik (talk) 08:42, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Please note that you refer to deletion proposals of lists. That's precisely what was suggested, to put them in a list. The next door guy who ran over the girl from the other next door also got coverage. Still we'll agree that this does not make him notable. If anybody knows where to propose deletion of a few thousand asteroids, I'll lend him my voice. Debresser (talk) 13:14, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * No, I do not. The last example is for an asteroid. The reason I referred to lists is that the arguments for their deletion were exactly the same as your arguments for the deletion of asteroid's articles. You actually seems not to realize that the wiki notability is very different from the common understanding of this word, and your example is not relevant. Asteroids are notable because they have received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject (I specifically want to repeat this). Ruslik (talk) 14:09, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * This one got deleted due to zero notability. Reyk  YO!  21:03, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Wrong example. This article consisted of just one sentence: Named in honor of Mel Bartels for his contributions to amateur astronomy, especially his freely-shared designs for driving alt-az telescopes. No inforbox, no orbital parameters. So I am not surprised that it was deleted. Ruslik (talk) 18:13, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Not being an admin, I can't see the deleted article. If you are suggesting that an infobox containing the asteroid's physical and orbital parameters from the JPL confers notability, then I disagree in the strongest terms. That's like saying an article on me would get deleted if it only contains my name, but if it also had my address and height & weight it would be kept. Reyk  YO!  10:38, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * This AFD discussed Bartels case and rejected it as precedent because Bartels article lacked content and really looked like an example of A1 (someone even mentioned G1&mdash;gibberish). Ruslik (talk) 17:31, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't agree with your interpretation of either of those AFDs: there were plenty of NN opinions as well as "no content" opinions in the Bartels AfD, and only one person rejected it as a precedent in the GY14 one. I still say asteroids aren't inherently notable just because they exist. Reyk  YO!  11:52, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
 * There are thousands more like it. Equally fit for (speedy) deletion. I'd just like to know how to get it done. Debresser (talk) 22:26, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

The key word here is "significant". An announcement in a specialized journal of a list of the next 500 odd asteroids located and catalogued is not significant.

Who can tell me where to raise this question? Debresser (talk) 17:11, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * This has been discussed before. There is no consensus to delete these articles. Spacepotato (talk) 23:00, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Let's discuss it again. Debresser (talk) 01:00, 20 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Per WP:GNG, the issue with asteroid article notability might come down to the requirement for secondary sources. I'm not sure I regard the JPL Small-Body Database as a secondary source. On the other hand, perhaps the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names might considered such. I know I've experienced great difficulty in trying to expand some of the more obscure asteroid articles, so I'm not clear those can be anything beyond a stub (in the near future at any rate). This comes back to the requirement for significant coverage. Still, I'm not in any hurry to do a mass delete; they should at least get links to the JPL pages (on the lists of minor planets pages) before that happens.&mdash;RJH (talk) 18:07, 21 February 2009 (UTC)


 * The point I am trying to argue is another. That a mention of another asteroid found in any or all of these sources is not considered significant coverage. I would really like to raise this question anew. Please tell me where to do this. Debresser (talk) 18:19, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

This subject has been extensively discussed, without reaching a useful actionable consensus, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomical objects and in Archive 8 ff. Please take note of that large corpus before reworking the same ground here. I think WikiProject Astronomical objects (or a sub-project of that) is the place the discussion needs to be centralized, in any case. Thanks, Wwheaton (talk) 19:56, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. I propose continuing the discussion at the place you mentioned. Debresser (talk) 20:59, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

ANI: Minor planets articles
The discussion has been archived here. Regards, RJH (talk) 16:20, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Straw poll: Automated stub redirection
I've proposed using a bot to automatically redirect a large number of asteroid stubs back to the list-of-asteroids pages. This is the sort of thing that should only be done if there's strong consensus for it, so I've started a discussion thread at WT:ASTRO. Please comment as you see fit. --Christopher Thomas (talk) 09:33, 24 January 2012 (UTC)


 * I've closed this as "no consensus" (after leaving it up for a week). There were comments in support, but I'm not going to the bot approval group and ask to auto-redirect 10k+ stubs with only four votes in favour. By all means float the proposal again down the road if more people think it's a good idea. --Christopher Thomas (talk) 08:16, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Articles for Redirect
Please review the list history at the top of WikiProject_Astronomy/Candidates_for_redirection_new. Does everything seem to be in order? I'll post it here:


 * Did Farmbrough store a list of the 363 asteroids that had a "reference" on the JPL Small-Body Database? -- Kheider (talk) 05:29, 21 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, I asked him that (see the corresponding discussion, below), but he didn't reply. Shall we ask him again?  Chrisrus (talk) 05:40, 21 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I would like to see the JPL removed list just so I better understand and follow the overall bot-process. -- Kheider (talk) 06:02, 21 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I'd love to help you but I don't know to much about bots. I did, however, provide the names of each person involved so that you can direct your questions accordingly.  Let me know if there's anything more I can/should do.  Chrisrus (talk) 06:14, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

Rich says:
 * The JPL references were added to the articles for the minor planets they related to. These are the articles


 * 1) 10443 van der Pol
 * 2) 11027 Astaf'ev
 * 3) 11072 Hiraoka
 * 4) 11118 Modra
 * 5) 11496 Grass
 * 6) 11509 Thersilochos
 * 7) 11836 Eileen
 * 8) 11868 Kleinrichert
 * 9) 11978 Makotomasako
 * 10) 12016 Green
 * 11) 12071 Davykim
 * 12) 12238 Actor
 * 13) 1233 Kobresia
 * 14) 1242 Zambesia
 * 15) 1243 Pamela
 * 16) 1244 Deira
 * 17) 1249 Rutherfordia
 * 18) 1250 Galanthus
 * 19) 12527 Anneraugh
 * 20) 1255 Schilowa
 * 21) 1261 Legia
 * 22) 1267 Geertruida
 * 23) 1281 Jeanne
 * 24) 12845 Crick
 * 25) 12895 Balbastre
 * 26) 1291 Phryne
 * 27) 13014 Hasslacher
 * 28) 13154 Petermrva
 * 29) 13260 Sabadell
 * 30) 1328 Devota
 * 31) 1337 Gerarda
 * 32) 1340 Yvette
 * 33) 1346 Gotha
 * 34) 1347 Patria
 * 35) 13482 Igorfedorov
 * 36) 1349 Bechuana
 * 37) 13533 Junili
 * 38) 1354 Botha
 * 39) 1356 Nyanza
 * 40) 1364 Safara
 * 41) 1366 Piccolo
 * 42) 1368 Numidia
 * 43) 13732 Woodall
 * 44) 1378 Leonce
 * 45) 1379 Lomonosowa
 * 46) 13806 Darmstrong
 * 47) 1382 Gerti
 * 48) 1389 Onnie
 * 49) 13906 Shunda
 * 50) 1392 Pierre
 * 51) 13921 Sgarbini
 * 52) 1393 Sofala
 * 53) 1397 Umtata
 * 54) 13977 Frisch
 * 55) 1405 Sibelius
 * 56) 1409 Isko
 * 57) 14141 Demeautis
 * 58) 14164 Hennigar
 * 59) 1419 Danzig
 * 60) 1425 Tuorla
 * 61) 1426 Riviera
 * 62) 1429 Pemba
 * 63) 1430 Somalia
 * 64) 1431 Luanda
 * 65) 14335 Alexosipov
 * 66) 1434 Margot
 * 67) 14342 Iglika
 * 68) 1452 Hunnia
 * 69) 1460 Haltia
 * 70) 14643 Morata
 * 71) 14659 Gregoriana
 * 72) 1477 Bonsdorffia
 * 73) 14835 Holdridge
 * 74) 1496 Turku
 * 75) 1504 Lappeenranta
 * 76) 15107 Toepperwein
 * 77) 1522 Kokkola
 * 78) 1524 Joensuu
 * 79) 1532 Inari
 * 80) 1533 Saimaa
 * 81) 15350 Naganuma
 * 82) 15374 Teta
 * 83) 1540 Kevola
 * 84) 15415 Rika
 * 85) 1543 Bourgeois
 * 86) 1576 Fabiola
 * 87) 1585 Union
 * 88) 1609 Brenda
 * 89) 1611 Beyer
 * 90) 1628 Strobel
 * 91) 1644 Rafita
 * 92) 1646 Rosseland
 * 93) 1648 Shajna
 * 94) 1665 Gaby
 * 95) 1669 Dagmar
 * 96) 1672 Gezelle
 * 97) 1682 Karel
 * 98) 1688 Wilkens
 * 99) 17035 Velichko
 * 100) 1707 Chantal
 * 101) 17079 Lavrovsky
 * 102) 1709 Ukraina
 * 103) 1710 Gothard
 * 104) 1712 Angola
 * 105) 1718 Namibia
 * 106) 17198 Gorjup
 * 107) 1720 Niels
 * 108) 1722 Goffin
 * 109) 1731 Smuts
 * 110) 1735 ITA
 * 111) 1753 Mieke
 * 112) 1754 Cunningham
 * 113) 1757 Porvoo
 * 114) 1759 Kienle
 * 115) 17683 Kanagawa
 * 116) 1789 Dobrovolsky
 * 117) 1800 Aguilar
 * 118) 1801 Titicaca
 * 119) 1803 Zwicky
 * 120) 1804 Chebotarev
 * 121) 1805 Dirikis
 * 122) 1837 Osita
 * 123) 1842 Hynek
 * 124) 1873 Agenor
 * 125) 1877 Marsden
 * 126) 1879 Broederstroom
 * 127) 18874 Raoulbehrend
 * 128) 1897 Hind
 * 129) 1902 Shaposhnikov
 * 130) 1907 Rudneva
 * 131) 1928 Summa
 * 132) 1933 Tinchen
 * 133) 19379 Labrecque
 * 134) 1939 Loretta
 * 135) 1941 Wild
 * 136) 1946 Walraven
 * 137) 1956 Artek
 * 138) 1957 Angara
 * 139) 1960 Guisan
 * 140) 1961 Dufour
 * 141) 19763 Klimesh
 * 142) 1995 Hajek
 * 143) 19982 Barbaradoore
 * 144) 2003 Harding
 * 145) 2013 Tucapel
 * 146) 2017 Wesson
 * 147) 2049 Grietje
 * 148) 2054 Gawain
 * 149) 20571 Tiamorrison
 * 150) 2080 Jihlava
 * 151) 2084 Okayama
 * 152) 20898 Fountainhills
 * 153) 2091 Sampo
 * 154) 2109 Dhotel
 * 155) 2111 Tselina
 * 156) 2113 Ehrdni
 * 157) 2139 Makharadze
 * 158) 2140 Kemerovo
 * 159) 21436 Chaoyichi
 * 160) 2156 Kate
 * 161) 21609 Williamcaleb
 * 162) 21652 Vasishtha
 * 163) 21705 Subinmin
 * 164) 2175 Andrea Doria
 * 165) 2186 Keldysh
 * 166) 2187 La Silla
 * 167) 2197 Shanghai
 * 168) 22338 Janemojo
 * 169) 2253 Espinette
 * 170) 2259 Sofievka
 * 171) 22603 Davidoconnor
 * 172) 2274 Ehrsson
 * 173) 2276 Warck
 * 174) 22776 Matossian
 * 175) 2285 Ron Helin
 * 176) 2292 Seili
 * 177) 2293 Guernica
 * 178) 22988 Jimmyhom
 * 179) 2301 Whitford
 * 180) 2302 Florya
 * 181) 2304 Slavia
 * 182) 2323 Zverev
 * 183) 2338 Bokhan
 * 184) 2339 Anacreon
 * 185) 2364 Seillier
 * 186) 23712 Willpatrick
 * 187) 2381 Landi
 * 188) 2385 Mustel
 * 189) 2398 Jilin
 * 190) 24101 Cassini
 * 191) 2415 Ganesa
 * 192) 2416 Sharonov
 * 193) 2422 Perovskaya
 * 194) 2433 Sootiyo
 * 195) 2442 Corbett
 * 196) 2443 Tomeileen
 * 197) 24643 MacCready
 * 198) 2474 Ruby
 * 199) 2477 Biryukov
 * 200) 2480 Papanov
 * 201) 2483 Guinevere
 * 202) 2490 Bussolini
 * 203) 2523 Ryba
 * 204) 2524 Budovicium
 * 205) 2529 Rockwell Kent
 * 206) 2543 Machado
 * 207) 2545 Verbiest
 * 208) 2563 Boyarchuk
 * 209) 2572 Annschnell
 * 210) 2591 Dworetsky
 * 211) 2624 Samitchell
 * 212) 2637 Bobrovnikoff
 * 213) 2649 Oongaq
 * 214) 2669 Shostakovich
 * 215) 2687 Tortali
 * 216) 26879 Haines
 * 217) 2713 Luxembourg
 * 218) 2714 Matti
 * 219) 2760 Kacha
 * 220) 2774 Tenojoki
 * 221) 2779 Mary
 * 222) 2783 Chernyshevskij
 * 223) 2785 Sedov
 * 224) 2794 Kulik
 * 225) 2796 Kron
 * 226) 2832 Lada
 * 227) 2862 Vavilov
 * 228) 2880 Nihondaira
 * 229) 2893 Peiroos
 * 230) 2895 Memnon
 * 231) 2896 Preiss
 * 232) 2937 Gibbs
 * 233) 2939 Coconino
 * 234) 2942 Cordie
 * 235) 2943 Heinrich
 * 236) 2945 Zanstra
 * 237) 2960 Ohtaki
 * 238) 2981 Chagall
 * 239) 2991 Bilbo
 * 240) 2993 Wendy
 * 241) 2995 Taratuta
 * 242) 3005 Pervictoralex
 * 243) 3025 Higson
 * 244) 3052 Herzen
 * 245) 3068 Khanina
 * 246) 3076 Garber
 * 247) 3080 Moisseiev
 * 248) 3099 Hergenrother
 * 249) 3101 Goldberger
 * 250) 3109 Machin
 * 251) 3111 Misuzu
 * 252) 3116 Goodricke
 * 253) 3133 Sendai
 * 254) 3134 Kostinsky
 * 255) 3141 Buchar
 * 256) 3176 Paolicchi
 * 257) 3178 Yoshitsune
 * 258) 3186 Manuilova
 * 259) 31956 Wald
 * 260) 3212 Agricola
 * 261) 3247 Di Martino
 * 262) 3267 Glo
 * 263) 3268 De Sanctis
 * 264) 3284 Niebuhr
 * 265) 3290 Azabu
 * 266) 3300 McGlasson
 * 267) 3332 Raksha
 * 268) 3370 Kohsai
 * 269) 3402 Wisdom
 * 270) 3403 Tammy
 * 271) 3444 Stepanian
 * 272) 3485 Barucci
 * 273) 35062 Sakuranosyou
 * 274) 3514 Hooke
 * 275) 3525 Paul
 * 276) 3557 Sokolsky
 * 277) 3590 Holst
 * 278) 3597 Kakkuri
 * 279) 3617 Eicher
 * 280) 3631 Sigyn
 * 281) 3637 O'Meara
 * 282) 3638 Davis
 * 283) 3651 Friedman
 * 284) 3657 Ermolova
 * 285) 3675 Kemstach
 * 286) 3685 Derdenye
 * 287) 3724 Annenskij
 * 288) 3725 Valsecchi
 * 289) 3729 Yangzhou
 * 290) 3731 Hancock
 * 291) 3761 Romanskaya
 * 292) 3785 Kitami
 * 293) 3790 Raywilson
 * 294) 3794 Sthenelos
 * 295) 3801 Thrasymedes
 * 296) 3807 Pagels
 * 297) 3811 Karma
 * 298) 3843 OISCA
 * 299) 3855 Pasasymphonia
 * 300) 3872 Akirafujii
 * 301) 3880 Kaiserman
 * 302) 3888 Hoyt
 * 303) 3906 Chao
 * 304) 3918 Brel
 * 305) 3923 Radzievskij
 * 306) 3924 Birch
 * 307) 3935 Toatenmongakkai
 * 308) 3936 Elst
 * 309) 3953 Perth
 * 310) 3960 Chaliubieju
 * 311) 3968 Koptelov
 * 312) 39741 Komm
 * 313) 3986 Rozhkovskij
 * 314) 4007 Euryalos
 * 315) 4008 Corbin
 * 316) 4045 Lowengrub
 * 317) 4057 Demophon
 * 318) 4085 Weir
 * 319) 4112 Hrabal
 * 320) 4162 SAF
 * 321) 4169 Celsius
 * 322) 4172 Rochefort
 * 323) 4174 Pikulia
 * 324) 4190 Kvasnica
 * 325) 4196 Shuya
 * 326) 4201 Orosz
 * 327) 4204 Barsig
 * 328) 4214 Veralynn
 * 329) 4224 Susa
 * 330) 4226 Damiaan
 * 331) 4255 Spacewatch
 * 332) 4263 Abashiri
 * 333) 4289 Biwako
 * 334) 4294 Horatius
 * 335) 4308 Magarach
 * 336) 4317 Garibaldi
 * 337) 4323 Hortulus
 * 338) 4423 Golden
 * 339) 4457 van Gogh
 * 340) 4467 Kaidanovskij
 * 341) 4498 Shinkoyama
 * 342) 4502 Elizabethann
 * 343) 4505 Okamura
 * 344) 4509 Gorbatskij
 * 345) 4703 Kagoshima
 * 346) 4712 Iwaizumi
 * 347) 4722 Agelaos
 * 348) 4741 Leskov
 * 349) 4754 Panthoos
 * 350) 4773 Hayakawa
 * 351) 4791 Iphidamas
 * 352) 4792 Lykaon
 * 353) 4806 Miho
 * 354) 4816 Connelly
 * 355) 4827 Dares
 * 356) 4828 Misenus
 * 357) 4832 Palinurus
 * 358) 4833 Meges
 * 359) 4836 Medon
 * 360) 4863 Yasutani
 * 361) 4867 Polites
 * 362) 4894 Ask
 * 363) 4946 Askalaphus

Let's not leave them here. Where should we put them? Chrisrus (talk) 02:47, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

How this list was created Phase I:
 * Started with Category:Minor planets and removed articles containing more text than "(title) is a (whatever) discovered by (person) on (date) at (place)".
 * Discussion preserved at Bot_requests/Archive_45
 * Work performed by User:Anomie
 * Tagged list with tags
 * Discussion preserved at Bot_requests/Archive_45
 * Work performed by User:Avicennasis with advice from User:GoingBatty
 * List at this phase preserved at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Anomie/Asteroid_list&oldid=475046287

Phase II:
 * Removed articles whose titles returned any cited papers on the Harvard Database.
 * Discussion preserved at Bot_requests/Archive_45 and User_talk:Chrisrus
 * Work performed by User:Tim1357
 * Two lists created:
 * Those with one or more citations preserved at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Tim1357/sandbox&oldid=479049914
 * Those with no citations at all preserved at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Tim1357/sandbox&oldid=479049798

Phase III
 * Starting with the second "Phase II" list, those with no citations at all (see above).
 * Removed articles whose titles returned any cited papers on the JPL Small-Body Database.
 * Discussion preserved at: Bot_requests/Archive_47
 * Work performed by User:Rich Farmbrough
 * This list is preserved below.

NOTE:
 * All work performed by WP:BOTREQ contributors
 * All work performed with an eye on WP:NASTRO.
 * Discussion taking place at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomical objects.
 * Please do not alter any lists. Instead, swipe a copy and make a new list to edit.  Leave us a note about it here.

The actual list contains the above text and the list itself. Here it is again: WikiProject_Astronomy/Candidates_for_redirection_new Chrisrus (talk) 04:49, 21 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment I think we should rename these cleanup pages. WikiProject_Astronomy/Candidates_for_redirection_new would become WikiProject_Astronomy/Candidates_for_redirection/2 and WikiProject_Astronomy/Candidates_for_redirection would become WikiProject_Astronomy/Candidates_for_redirection/1, so that WikiProject_Astronomy/Candidates_for_redirection would become a list of activities. If another list is created, then it could be WikiProject_Astronomy/Candidates_for_redirection/3 instead of whatever inventive name is taken since "new" is already used. 70.49.124.147 (talk) 05:38, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok, if you would like, it seems like a good idea. Please be sure to alter the list history accordingly. Chrisrus (talk) 05:45, 21 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment – To my eye it looks a little odd that the list only contains a single entry that begins with a 5–9. That makes me suspect a bug somewhere. Regards, RJH (talk) 15:47, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I see. Can we pinpoint it? Chrisrus (talk) 16:15, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Maybe stubmaker was going through list and was stopped before creating articles about minor planets that begins with a 5–9? Bulwersator (talk) 17:10, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
 * That could explain it. Can you find the same thing on Category:Minor planets?  If so, it'd be explained as the place the creation process was stopped.  Chrisrus (talk) 05:24, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Bug in phase I, for example 6715 Sheldonmarks was skipped Bulwersator (talk) 10:47, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I think it got past the bot because it had more than one discoverer. The bot wasn't told what exactly what kind of text over and above "(Minor planet) is a (whatever) that was discovered by (person) in (place) on (date)" would constitute enough information to pass WP:NASTRO, so it erred on the side of causion.  It didn't know that having two discovers didn't mean an article shouldn't be notablity-tagged.  It's ok, we don't have to get them all at once. We're taking baby steps here.  So even though the only extra information in that article was a second discoverer, it was set aside as one we could always come back to another day.  It's a good thing: we have plenty of articles right here which we know can't possibly pass WP:GNG or Nastro based on the content within them alone.  Ok?  It's not like later we can't look back at the ones we didn't tag.  Chrisrus (talk) 00:17, 24 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Question - In the big picture... Is all this concerning the ~10k articles created by ClueBot II in March of 2008? Sorry if I'm late to the party and covering old ground. —ArtifexMayhem (talk) 18:37, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Not entirely. Regards, RJH (talk) 21:03, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Minor planet stubs
I remember there was consensus to get rid of the stubs over a certain number. Does anyone remember what the cutoff was? Gigs (talk) 15:57, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
 * It was discussed at WP Astronomical Objects (as they are objects...) 2000 was the cutoff (further discussions 2009, 2008 ) -- 65.92.181.190 (talk) 18:31, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I may pick up the torch on that.  It's something that's been nagging in the back of my head for a while, and I have the skills to write the bot to finish the task.  I think Christopher Thomas was being a little too conservative there.  Any "collateral damage" of accidental redirection of a notable object could be easily undone by any non-admin, and I have a few ideas in mind for some improved automated ways to identify probable notable objects numbered >2000.  Gigs (talk) 19:57, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Notability of asteroid stubs
Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability from February 2012 has something like 5000 articles (mainly stubs?) tagged as questionable notability. That is an astronomical number of tagged articles. (sorry...) It would be good to get a decision on what to do with them. Listify maybe? -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 08:29, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * This has already been discussed extensively, at WT:ASTRO, see the multiple topical archive pages devoted to asteroids (hundreds of k's worth of discussion). Objects numbered below 2000 were to be postponed from cleanup to ease the workload since below 2000 there's a bigger likelihood of notability, and work would be needed to bring those articles up to snuff, while objects 2000+ that fail WP:NASTRO were to be redirected to the existing lists. (List of asteroids subarticles) -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 06:03, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, the plan is to redirect to the relevant lists. But it requires some manual or semi-automatic oversight, so is a big job. The category isn't doing any harm, and it's useful as and when people have time to work on it. Modest Genius talk 23:27, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

I've noticed that there's a chemical-importance so perhaps we should have a astronomical-object-importance template, with corresponding category Category: Astronomical object articles with topics of unclear importance -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 07:20, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
 * does the same thing. And I notice that the chemistry version is currently a candidate to be merged into notability. Modest Genius talk 22:39, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
 * It doesn't add a specific cleanup category for astronomical objects -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 09:45, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
 * OK. Is that desirable? I never look at categories so don't know. If so, notability could easily be modified to do so. Modest Genius talk 00:51, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
 * It'd sort out the astronomical objects from everything else. (you can't do WhatLinksHere with just notability ) Any of us that would work on notability issues for these articles can go through a pure listing from the category then. -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 03:20, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Doesn't notability emit a category for that? If not, it could easily do so. Modest Genius talk 13:05, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Minor planets
I'm thinking about asking for a new bot task to turn all stubs on unnamed minor planets (articles like (59115) 1998 XG3) into redirects, as suggested by Notability (astronomical objects). At the moment, we have 4112 such articles (excluding redirects and all named minor planets), which seems to be about 4112 too many. I haven't (obviously) checked them all, but those I did check didn't contain any material establishing notability, and not even any material not already present in the lists. For the named minor planets, the situation seems to be more varied and no blanket appraoch seems to be advisable here (although a fair number, e.g. 10095 Carlloewe, could be redirected as well); so my proposal is only for unnamed minor planets, those where the article name starts with "(". Thoughts? Fram (talk) 10:28, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree. These should all be merged/redirected to the relevant lists. In fact, that should be the standard approach to any series of articles whose entire contents can be represented as entries in a table. Reyk  YO!  12:34, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree as well. However, before doing such a thing I'd chat with StringTheory11 as they have put a lot of work into star stub articles and might have some good ideas. Primefac (talk) 16:26, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree 100% with Fram's course of action. StringTheory11 (t • c) 19:43, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
 * On second thought, see my comments below; this does seem a little rash now that I think about it. StringTheory11 (t • c) 04:55, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I strongly disagree with blindly redirecting every unnamed minor planet stub. You should only blindly re-direct main-belt asteroid stubs that are numbered above say 3000. It should not matter if the asteroid is named or not. -- Kheider (talk) 20:54, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
 * One criteria could be that there is more than two references in the article. StringTheory11 (t • c) 21:04, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
 * That would be better than a generic blindbot re-directing 4000+ articles. I also think near-Earth asteroids and trojans need to be excluded. What exact minor planet category is this bot searching? I see 17,077 articles in Category:Main Belt asteroid stubs (many of which have already been re-directed). -- Kheider (talk) 00:07, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure I see the reason to exclude trojans and NEAs. If they are notable, then the article will certainly have good sourcing, as our notable minor planets are one of WPAST's strong points in terms of coverage and article quality. StringTheory11 (t • c) 04:58, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 * It's a numbers game. There are not that many NEAs or Trojans with dedicated articles on Wikipedia. Surely for such small categories it better to have a human decide what should or should not be re-directed. Stub class articles do not have good sourcing by definition and WP:NASTRO requires determining which articles are notable and which are not. -- Kheider (talk) 06:34, 20 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Somewhat Disagree this seems hardly like the ideal solution. A new 2012 VP113 could show up any day, and a bot that automatically transforms some stubby starting point such into a redirect would end up in an edit war. Didn't we already come up with a solution to handle sequentially evaluating these, a few months ago? As for starting with "(" that only handles the MPC numbered minor planets, not the ones that have not yet received a number (such as articles similarly named to "2012 VP113") -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 04:35, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Could you link to the consensus demonstrated a few months ago (not disputing that there was one, just that it would be better for everybody to have the link without having to search the archive). StringTheory11 (t • c) 04:55, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 * finding redirectable stubs by bot;What should be redirected:discussion 1&discussion 2&discussion 3 -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 06:28, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I think discussions from before the ANI discussion and the creation of the notability guideline are no longer really relevant. Some of these discussions also suggested redirecting all of them, while I want to restrict the automatic redirection to the unnamed ones; generally speaking, the named ones have more chance of being somewhat notable, and should be dealt with manually (in an AWB run or something similar) in my opinion. Fram (talk) 06:52, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Notability guideline are there to keep people from being wreckless with article creations or re-directs. This conversation comes up every 6 months or so (See:Wikipedia talk:Notability (astronomical objects). The best solution still seems to be to have users manually go through the articles and do the re-directs. A wreckless bot can do as much harm as good.
 * If a main-belt asteroid is more than ~60km in diameter (H<10), there is a good chance it is notable.
 * The first handful of near-Earth asteroids and Jupiter trojans are generally notable.
 * Articles edited by more than just bots should probably be respected more.
 * Just because an asteroid is named (ie:GeorgeClooney) does not make it notable.
 * If you have to re-direct and are in doubt, re-direct "sub-stub" asteroid articles numbered above 5000. -- Kheider (talk) 06:16, 22 June 2014 (UTC)


 * I don't mean a bot that constantly checks Wikipedia and instantly redirects these, but a bot that does this task once, and perhaps then every six months or so; this would give people the chance to expand new articles, or resurrect and expand previously redirected ones. I thin, the task (redirecting) is necessary, but it isn't the kind of urgent task that needs a bot on permanent standby. Fram (talk) 06:32, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 * What candidate category/list is the bot to check? I can not find your "4112 such articles". The general consensus in the past is that such re-directs should be done by a human. -- Kheider (talk) 06:53, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Here are the 4112 suggested ones. I can do them manually (using AWB), but that would be rather tedious, and this seemed like the perfect bot task. Fram (talk) 07:19, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Looking again at my list, it appears that there are a few named ones starting with "(" anyway. I'll remove these from my list, the 4112 will drop slightly accordingly. Fram (talk) 07:22, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I've removed four named ones, perhaps these need moving? Anyway, 4108 remain. Fram (talk) 07:50, 20 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Oppose. This task is not for a bot. All articles should be checked manually. I just reviewed a few of them and found 116903_Jeromeapt, which had not been renamed. So, other such articles can exist. All articles should be also checked against the MPC database. Ruslik_ Zero 19:19, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Fortunately, it doesn't appear as thought 116903 Jeromeapt is notable either. Having looked at around 50 asteroids in the list, it appears that nearly all of them were created by a single user: Merovingian. I so far haven't found a single notable article of his/hers, so I think another plan for now is to just redirect articles created by Merovingian, while leaving the others alone (for now). Thoughts? StringTheory11 (t • c) 03:49, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Objects like (7264) 1995 FK are sub-stub, main-belt asteroids, less than 60km in diameter, numbered above 5000, and have not been edited by a human. Your idea is probably a good one. I am still not convinced a bot is best for this as I am afraid of someone being wreckless with such a bot in the future. -- Kheider (talk) 17:32, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
 * If you want an example of a notable asteroid from that list, there is (101429)_1998_VF31 – a Martian trojan. Ruslik_ Zero 17:49, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

So, it looks like there is no consensus for a bot task for this, but that most people see no problem with someone manually doing this (as long as it is done somewhat carefully obviously). I'll see whether I can easily do this correctly with AWB, but if someone else feels the urge to tackle this, feel free, no need to wait for me :-) Fram (talk) 06:57, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Minor planet redirection bot?
I know this has been brought up above, but to make sure people actually see it, I'm going to start it in a new section. By now most regular readers here are probably aware of WP's minor planet problem, in that (literally) tens of thousands of non-notable minor planet articles have been created by and other users. Past requests for redirecting these to the listings of minor planets have gained consensus, but there has been no consensus on exactly how to carry out the redirection. The biggest problem is that maybe 1000 of them actually 'are'' notable, and should not be redirected. How to avoid redirecting these when using a bot has been a challenge to figure out.

In order to reduce the false positive rate to nearly zero, I propose the following criteria for a redirection-by-bot: These three criteria would sacrifice redirecting some obviously non-notable ones created by other authors or with larger prose in exchange for significantly reducing the false positive rate of such a bot. Thoughts on these criteria for a bot? Pinging, who is an editor who has done good work in the field and whose opinions would be appreciated. StringTheory11 (t • c) 19:05, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * The article has only one external link. All articles created by ClueBot II seem to only have a link to the JPL database, and any article with more links has a high chance of being notable.
 * The article was created by ClueBot II or Merovingian, who are the ones who created the vast majority of the articles.
 * The article size is less than 2000 bytes.
 * Agree - I think if an article meets all three of these criteria, it's a fairly good bet that it's not worth keeping. Given the strictness of these criteria, we may miss some stubs/non-notables (which is okay) but I don't think there will be many (if any) false positives. Primefac (talk) 19:43, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Exactly; although some non-notable ones will obviously be missed, this should cut it down enough to where it is practical to redirect the others manually, without the aid of automation. StringTheory11 (t • c) 23:32, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Comments:


 * Seems like a reasonable solution.
 * I would like to see a list generated by the bot first before the final re-direct run as I am curious how many asteroids numbered below ~2500 are included.
 * Will the bot search all asteroid articles or just the numbered ones? I do not think bots ever mass produced provisional unnumbered asteroid articles. -- Kheider (talk) 23:56, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I would be in favor of searching all asteroids. While ClueBot II seems to have only created names ones, Merovingian seems to have focused on unnamed ones, so I think it would be beneficial to include them as well. I won't make the bot myself as I don't know how to make a bot; instead, if this discussion achieves consensus, I'll put in a request at WP:BOTREQ. StringTheory11 (t • c) 00:28, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * It should not matter if an asteroid is named. But I am not sure if either ClueBot II or Merovingian ever made an article on a provisional unnumbered asteroid. -- Kheider (talk) 00:56, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh, never mind, I misunderstood your comment; I thought you said named ones for some reason. Yes, it would only search numbered ones. StringTheory11 (t • c) 01:03, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Agree with the caveat that it would be good to see the preliminary candidate list before the final run. -- Kheider (talk) 03:43, 13 August 2014 (UTC)


 * NOTE most recent preceding discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Astronomy/Archive_14 -- 65.94.169.222 (talk) 05:45, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * For ease of reference, that discussion closed with consensus to not redirect all unnamed minor planets. This method takes a more focused approach to reduce false positives. StringTheory11 (t • c) 16:32, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note the 2012 list of candidates WikiProject Astronomy/Candidates for redirection and WikiProject Astronomy/Candidates for redirection new; the 2012 listing bot request Bot_requests/Archive_45 -- 65.94.169.222 (talk) 05:45, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * That looks like a good list of named candidates to start with, at least. However, Anomie's linkclassifier.js shows that many of them are already redirects. StringTheory11 (t • c) 16:32, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment per 2012 discussion, I think we should have a lower limit of #2000 as the starting point, and a candidate list should be created for perusal before implementing redirects (as also per 2012's listing discussion) -- 65.94.169.222 (talk) 05:45, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I was not around for this discussion as I only became active at WPAST in mid-2012, but that looks reasonable. The non-notable ones below 2000 should number small enough that redirecting manually is easy enough to do. StringTheory11 (t • c) 16:32, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * In 2 more days it will have been a week since I posted here, so if nobody objects by then, I'll put in a request at WP:BRQ. StringTheory11 (t • c) 18:18, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Posted a request to BRQ. Let me know if you think I missed anything. StringTheory11 (t • c) 19:14, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Meanings of minor planet names
I have been bold and merged Meanings of minor planet names: 391001–392000 to List of minor planets: 391001–392000. There are hundreds of very similar pairs of articles already. Is there a good reason to keep them separate for all but the first X (20,000? Less?) minor planets? Fram (talk) 09:34, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
 * That merge looks sensible. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:23, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Minor planet redirects from March 2014
Soon after the ides of March last year there was very narrow consensus (1 other editor) on Category talk:Main Belt asteroid stubs to turn all (or most) minor planet stubs into redirects to List of minor planets: xxxx–xxxx. Solo Toady (talk) (contribs) initiated the discussion, received support from (ping) 5 hours later, began redirecting 12 hours later, redirected about 326 asteroid pages, then quit Wikipedia literally the next day after receiving a request to stop from  (ping). I spot-checked about a dozen non-current versions and most are still redirects, so I'm left wondering (as anyone who might stumble across these):  Revert these ~300 redirects, restoring the stub articles? <li>Do nothing?</li> <li>Manually or WP:Bot request to make the remaining several thousand minor planet articles redirects to their corresponding List of minor planets page?</li> </ol> I'll leave a pointer on the category talk page to here, and I'll try not to induce bias with my opinion right now. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf) 03:08, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Chrisrus has left comments about the viability of asteroid stubs before, at Category talk:Asteroid stubs -- 65.94.40.137 (talk) 08:53, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
 * While we're at this, there's WP: Minor planet articles that might fail NASTRO, seems to be the only work on asteroids that Chrisrus does besides saying that stub articles and list articles should not exist (ie, at Talk:List of minor planets ; and using help-me to try to delete articles at Talk:(237357) 2059 T-3 and Talk:(5796) 1978 VK5) . -- 65.94.40.137 (talk) 09:17, 28 January 2015 (UTC)


 * I believe it is better to put them all in a list, as long as there is a description and a thumbnail image if possible. Just my two cents Tetra quark (don't be shy) 03:30, 22 January 2015 (UTC)


 * We've discussed this issue several times before. That category talk page was the entirely wrong place to continue it. archive AArchive 1Archive 2Archive 3 -- 65.94.40.137 (talk) 08:33, 22 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Wow, I had no idea I'd be delivering a flaming bag of poo here. The most recent, relevant (imo) discussion is that started by (ping) at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomy/Archive table of asteroids 1 in August 2014. The older discussions (≲ 2012) potentially predate existing notability guidelines, brought up by Fram here July 2014. Spot-checking a handful of Solo Toady's 300 redirects reveals that he was operating on:
 * asteroid stubs with ≤ 1 external link (specifically, to JPL) ✅
 * asteroid stubs created by either ClueBot II or Merovingian ✅
 * asteroid stubs < 2000 bytes (with only 15 exceptions, the largest being 3469 b)
 * asteroid stubs beginning with any number (as opposed to only those > 2000)
 * as (mostly) prescribed (after the Solo Toady fact) by StringTheory at bot requests, so the same rules would apply.
 * Therefore, my take on all this would be to revert redirects to those pages starting with a number < 2000, to effectively match the now-completed (unperformed) bot request. This amounts to at most 51 20 pages, listed here User:Tom.Reding/Minor planet redirects from March 2014. I wouldn't want to do so without getting the approval of StringTheory and/or Kheider, though.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  15:26, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

I initially delayed my response to see what other people might think without them reading my personal bias. My concern with Solo Toady was that I did not want to see hundreds or even thousands of low numbered asteroids re-directed without a proper discussion involving several people. I have always enjoyed working with StringTheory. On the other hand, I have accused Chrisrus of Forumshopping since October 2013. In March 2014, I did NOT know Chrisrus was using Solo Toady to forward his crusade. Undoing 20 of of the 321 re-directs is probably the most reasonable solution, though even many of them may not be very notable. -- Kheider (talk) 10:58, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Sounds like Chrisrus should be brought to WP:AN as a having serially and persistently for years had a problem with articles that Chrisrus has campaigned against ignoring existing discussions, and being disruptive editor. -- 65.94.40.137 (talk) 08:36, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I'll do so after a few days (Monday), pending additional comments.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  14:59, 23 January 2015 (UTC) ✅   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  16:14, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

What I would like to know is how many of Category:Main Belt asteroid stubs are NOT re-directs to a list? -- Kheider (talk) 12:31, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Aren't the ones in italics redirects? --JorisvS (talk) 16:11, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * There're 14,622 articles total in that category though, and at 200 articles/page = a lot to look through, so that sounds like a WP:BotReq, unless there's an easy way in like Emacs to check for italics.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  21:33, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I figured out an easy way (but I'm leaving for the weekend). In AWB, grab all the pages in the category, then set the only skip option as "Page is redirect", then go through the list. AWB's log tab keeps track of whether you clicked skip or if it automatically skipped (i.e. is a redirect). Save the log, Ctrl+H replace "redirect" with "blah" and have it count how many instances of "redirect" there are. Have fun! (If no one does this I will, gladly)  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  21:53, 23 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Category search returned 14,640 pages; 482 redirects; 14,158 articles.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  17:55, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I still support StringTheory11's August 2014 bot request. Too bad no one has worked on it. If Chrisrus had directed Solo Toad to start with higher numbered asteroids, Solo Toad might have fixed a large part of the problem instead of being driven away from Wikipedia. Chrisrus seems to be his own worst enemy. -- Kheider (talk) 18:29, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree with your comments, and 65.94.40.137's, here on Chrisrus; the evidence is against him. Causing someone's removal from the WP community through actions against consensus to forward an unnecessary personal crusade is worse than any number of bad edits. That's like reverse-mentoring.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  14:42, 30 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Yes, it is rather unfortunate that the request was ignored. When I have more time, I may post it again, as this discussion is reaffirming that consensus. StringTheory11 (t • c) 02:47, 26 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Of the 482 redirects in Category:Main Belt asteroid stubs, all 15 starting with <= 2000 are still redirects to the list (none of these were performed by Solo Toady and are still redirects after my 20 redirect reverts).
 * Also, those 20 redirect reverts need to be put into Category:Main Belt asteroid stubs pages weren't in the Category, but the articles all are.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  16:34, 26 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Does anyone object to unredirecting the 15 redirects I found numbered <= 2000 in Category:Main Belt asteroid stubs?  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  21:45, 28 January 2015 (UTC)


 * I'll do this tomorrow (30th) if no comments, or later today if I get an affirmative, since it isn't controversial.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  14:34, 29 January 2015 (UTC) ✅   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  14:30, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Semi-automated bot request to redirect asteroid stubs > 2000
StringTheory11 made a bot request (never performed and aspects previously discussed here, here, here, here, and here) with the following criteria (verbatim): I can filter articles in AWB which meet criteria 1, 3, 4, but not #2 (I think).
 * 1) Article has one or no external links.
 * 2) Article was created by the users ClueBot II or Merovingian
 * 3) Article is less than 2000 bytes
 * 4) Asteroid is numbered above 2000.

If y'all want, I can do this semi-automatically, or I can use a different criteria #2v2:
 * 2v2. Article body is a variant of the form "<#####> is a asteroid discovered on by at ."

which doesn't restrict pages to those created by ClueBot II or Merovingian, but maintains a similar spirit to the original request, I think. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf) 17:27, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't think that the replacement for #2 is ideal, since that would miss anything with an infobox, if I'm understanding correctly. Rather, I think doing it semi-automatically for now would be good, and resubmitting the bot request might be a good idea as well. StringTheory11 (t • c) 17:40, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
 * If the page already only has 1 external link (rule #1), and that link is to the JPL database, then any information in the infobox is either from JPL, or unreferenced. Is that adequate?
 * If that's insufficient, I can avoid infoboxes with > some minimum, required amount of information (i.e. some list, agreed to here, of non-empty parameters). Pages with infoboxes with < this amount of information can be redirected, as long as they meet criteria 1, 2v2, 3, 4.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  18:45, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: I changed my rule #2 from #2 to #2v2, for referring to later.
 * You can ignore templates such as infobox when running AWB, so unless there's major dissent I would say go for it . Primefac (talk) 09:54, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't want to blanket ignore infoboxes - I'll look through the entire page when assessing rule #1.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  15:28, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
 * If I might ask, what is the significance of the number 2000? Why that number? Fyunck(click) (talk) 17:41, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
 * See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomical objects/Archive table of asteroids 2 and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomy/Archive 14. —Alex (Ashill &#124; talk &#124; contribs) 18:02, 3 April 2015 (UTC)


 * So from what I read, 2000 is simply a reasonable but arbitrary number. Basically grandfathered in because of their earlier discovery and because they are the "usually" the largest asteroids. Not always but usually. And those above 2000, for the most part, should not have their own articles and should simply be on the list pages. Exceptions, obviously, will happen to a very few above 2000. Ok, this sounds pretty reasonable but the the countless thousands on the list pages whose articles have been or will be removed or redirected need to be "de-linked" to stop circular traveling. I click on one it it simply leads me back to the same page. That can't happen. A bot may have to be deployed to do the de-linking. Fyunck(click) (talk) 08:48, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I disagree, unless it's a regularly-run maintenance bot. As various asteroids gain notoriety and have legitimate pages created for them, someone/something would have to maintain the links on the list page to only point to non-redirects. Without a maintenance bot, I think it's adequate (although certainly not ideal) as-is.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  12:51, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

But remember that if placed in a list, MoS tells us to never allow the linking to go circular and link back to it's page of origin. "Do not link to pages that redirect back to the page the link is on." They can be redlinked "IF" it is likely to have a stand-alone article created in the future. But no links back to itself. Fyunck(click) (talk) 20:18, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
 * The WP:MoS isn't written in stone, nor should it be blanket applied (it says so right at the top); there are, of course, exceptions, which this undoubtedly is. What do you think is the best thing to do, independent of the MoS?  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  15:01, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
 * It isn't written in stone, but there is nothing special about this case. You cannot have circular links. De-link all asteroids that do not have a separate article. It's as simple as that. If one day a couple of them do get a separate article then we go to the list and link them properly. But a redirect back to the same spot is a disservice to our readers. Fyunck(click) (talk) 18:06, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

I've seen several asteroid redirects which kept the original article's categories (i.e. Category:Astronomical objects discovered in 1990, Category:Discoveries by Kin Endate, Category:Discoveries by Kazuro Watanabe). These redirects are in the minority, but I can see why they'd be useful to someone searching through them. Categorizing redirects says generally, no, but maybe, sometimes. Should I keep all categories when I make the redirect or just get rid of them as usual? ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf) 12:41, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I think including the redirects in the categorization is useful. I've recently created a category for the magnetospheres of planemos, and I've included redirects to sections, because this helps people locate information on these topics for objects whose magnetospheres do not have dedicated articles, which is particularly useful here, I think, because the only moon with a known magnetosphere (Ganymede) does not have one. Keeping the categorization of these asteroid stubs when redirected can have similar uses, unless there are dedicated list articles in place. --JorisvS (talk) 16:24, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Regarding the first part: Great. It's easier to remove existing cats than to find old ones, so keeping them was the safest thing to do, imo. Since my last post I've kept categories as well as the associated DEFAULTSORT. Later I can find how many uncategorized asteroid redirects exist, and either copy the cats from the last stub version, or make a botreq if it's a lot.
 * ✅ ~100 of my redirects needed their categories propagated.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  15:01, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Regarding unless there are dedicated list articles in place: I'm redirecting all asteroid stubs to pages/locations such as List of minor planets: 9001–10000 (I guess that wasn't made clear in this thread). Do you disagree with the categorization of all these redirects?   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  17:08, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
 * No, I don't disagree, because that's not a dedicated list for categories like "minor planets discovered in XXXX", or "discoveries by Y". --JorisvS (talk) 17:12, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
 * To clarify: Aside from not being sortable, minor planets discovered in a certain year can have quite different numbers, and are hence likely to be spread across multiple such pages. And obviously, this is even more probablly the case for their discoverers. --JorisvS (talk) 17:17, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I see; thanks!  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  17:20, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Update: 1st pass on the ~16,500 #redirect candidate asteroid stubs is complete. ~8,240 redirects were made. Exceptions to the above criteria were made on a case-by-case basis, for example: 2307 Garuda, 17543 Sosva, 18155 Jasonschuler, 18809 Meileawertz. This has brought down the WikiProject Astronomy cleanup listing and Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability from February 2012 dramatically!

Proposal: I noticed the potential for a few small expansions of the orignal #redirect criteria. Once I started with an edit summary (..."2) main-body data duplicated on the list page"...) I wanted it to hold true for the entire run. Now, with the original criteria fulfilled, I think the following 3 reasonable modifications (rules) can be added (assuming the page contains no novel information):

5) Pages with orbital parameter data from the JPL database written into the article text (i.e. orbital period like 23315_Navinbrian and 28516 Möbius, or with several parameters like (5903) 1989 AN1). Any page with diameter, mass, density, surface gravity, or escape velocity won't be redirected because those doesn't appear obviously on the JPL link.

6) Pages with namesake information written into the article text (i.e. xxx was named after yyy, xxx is Latin for yyy, etc.), which already reside in list form at Meanings of minor planet names.

7) Pages with specifically these 3 external links: 1) to the JPL database (rule #1), 2) to the Minor Planet Center database (like http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/NumberedMPs005001.html), which is basically a duplicate of the info on the #redirect lists and/or the JPL database, and 3) to Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, which is the primary source for the Meanings of minor planet names: 2001–2500 family of pages (see top of that page).

Is there a concensus to include some or all of rules 5, 6, 7 in a subsequent run? ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf) 13:49, 15 April 2015 (UTC)


 * I'd be OK with this. I've never really seen the need to have a multitude of microstub articles containing only information that could be expressed as entries in a table. Reyk  <sub style="color:blue;">YO!  15:13, 15 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I don't see these as controversial either, so I won't wait too long before implementing as long as there are no dissenting remarks.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  21:00, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
 * it's been a week now, so I'd say there's definitely been ample opportunity for somebody to comment here if they disagreed, so I think you'd be fine implementing this now. StringTheory11 (t • c) 17:49, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes indeed. I actually started last night.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  22:52, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Update: 2nd pass using rules #1-7 is complete. ~2790 redirects were made. Of the 16,444 asteroids numbered > 2000, 15,035 are now redirects. The 555 missing-meanings asteroids will be delt with later (next Tuesday). ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf) 15:07, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Towards the beginning of the 2nd pass I saw that some asteroid pages which included the discoverer's information did not have the corresponding category. I figured out an easy way to make 431 AWB rules to made sure that asteroids which contained variants of "discovered by " included one (or more) of the 431 corresponding "Category: Discoveries by ". I wish I had seen this opportunity sooner, but I applied it to all non-redirects at the time (~4100) and only made 41 additions. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf) 19:16, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Missing Meanings of Minor Planet Names
While going through the asteroids, I found that there are many Meanings of minor planet names which exist in Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (Google Books link) but not in the list pages. If someone here would want to put in and wikilink some of the missing meanings, that would be very helpful. Only a small phrase is necessary for each entry (i.e. 3905 Doppler: Christian Doppler, Austrian mathematician and physicist). ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf) 19:28, 23 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Trivia about names may be trivial, but it seems a shame to just lose it. Perhaps the bulk wipe should have bypassed articles with edits by non-bots? Or did I miss something? --GhostInTheMachine (talk) 17:40, 26 April 2015 (UTC)


 * If an asteroid page contains variants of "named/dedicated/honored after/for/in/to/for" etc., and no entry or a null entry exists in Meanings of minor planet names, then it doesn't get redirected (though when I started, I assumed all asteroid pages had at least a null entry in the meanings-list, which I found relatively early on not to be true). I'm asking for existing null entries in the list to be turned into a proper entry via a small phrase from Schmadel's DoMPN.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  15:15, 27 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Ah. Thanks. Missed the List of ... vs. Meanings of ... thing. Maybe there could be a cross-link in the headings of List of minor planets: 12001–13000 to Meanings of minor planet names: 12001–13000 etc. --GhostInTheMachine (talk) 15:36, 27 April 2015 (UTC)


 * I see that the Meanings link is at the bottom of the List of pages actually.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  15:43, 27 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Below is a list of 555 redirect candidates that are missing a Meanings of minor planet names entry. The information on (probably) each asteroid's page is duplicated on the JPL/MPC databases, but I prefer not to redirect these pages until a complete Meanings entry exists on Wikipedia. Right now, they are distinguished from the redirected asteroid pages which have a Meanings entry, and I prefer to not relax the redirect criteria further, at least for now (unless everyone's ok with redirecting, iif the data exists on JPL/MPC).
 * If you add the missing pages to a Meanings page, please feel free to strikethrough  what you've done.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  19:03, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

<div class="NavFrame collapsed" style="border-style: none; text-align: left; border: #000 solid 2px; -moz-border-radius: 5px; padding: 1px; font-size: 85%;"> 555 Missing Meanings of Minor Planet Names</b>

Meanings of minor planet names: 3501–4000 is missing:
 * 3524 Schulz, 3810 Aoraki, 3832 Shapiro, 3900 Knežević

Meanings of minor planet names: 4001–4500 is missing:
 * 4134 Schütz, 4187 Shulnazaria, 4258 Ryazanov

Meanings of minor planet names: 4501–5000 is missing:
 * 4576 Yanotoyohiko, 4632 Udagawa, 4662 Runk, 4663 Falta, 4686 Maisica, 4778 Fuss, 4779 Whitley, 4780 Polina, 4852 Pamjones, 4925 Zhoushan, 4948 Hideonishimura

Meanings of minor planet names: 5001–5500 is missing:
 * 5277 Brisbane, 5289 Niemela

Meanings of minor planet names: 5501–6000 is missing:
 * 5508 Gomyou, 5784 Yoron, 5821 Yukiomaeda, 5851 Inagawa, 5877 Toshimaihara, 5917 Chibasai, 5931 Zhvanetskij

Meanings of minor planet names: 6001–6500 is missing:
 * 6180 Bystritskaya

Meanings of minor planet names: 6501–7000 is missing:
 * 6536 Vysochinska, 6641 Bobross

Meanings of minor planet names: 7001–7500 is missing:
 * 7356 Casagrande, 7365 Sejong, 7461 Kachmokiam

Meanings of minor planet names: 7501–8000 is missing:
 * 7741 Fedoseev, 7897 Bohuška

Meanings of minor planet names: 8001–8500 is missing:
 * 8117 Yuanlongping, 8134 Minin, 8142 Zolotov, 8145 Valujki, 8149 Ruff

Meanings of minor planet names: 8501–9000 is missing:
 * 8530 Korbokkur

Meanings of minor planet names: 9501–10000 is missing:
 * 9523 Torino

Meanings of minor planet names: 10001–11000 is missing:
 * 10108 Tomlinson, 10116 Robertfranz, 10117 Tanikawa, 10142 Sakka, 10143 Kamogawa, 10146 Mukaitadashi, 10152 Ukichiro, 10160 Totoro, 10197 Senigalliesi, 10207 Comeniana, 10209 Izanaki, 10218 Bierstadt, 10283 Cromer, 10305 Grignard, 10617 Takumi, 10626 Zajíc, 10658 Gretadevries, 10664 Phemios, 10669 Herfordia, 10670 Seminozhenko, 10671 Mazurova, 10672 Kostyukova, 10675 Kharlamov, 10676 Jamesmcdanell, 10683 Carter, 10684 Babkina

Meanings of minor planet names: 11001–12000 is missing:
 * 11059 Nulliusinverba, 11288 Okunohosomichi, 11295 Gustaflarsson, 11307 Erikolsson, 11361 Orbinskij, 11507 Danpascu, 11515 Oshijyo, 11856 Nicolabonev, 11907 Näränen, 11926 Orinoco, 11984 Manet

Meanings of minor planet names: 12001–13000 is missing:
 * 12159 Bettybiegel, 12160 Karelwakker, 12161 Avienius, 12162 Bilderdijk, 12171 Johannink, 12172 Niekdekort, 12229 Paulsson, 12286 Poiseuille, 12358 Azzurra, 12408 Fujioka, 12432 Usuda, 12456 Genichiaraki, 12469 Katsuura, 12512 Split, 12541 Makarska, 12581 Rovinj, 12615 Mendesdeleon, 12623 Tawaddud, 12624 Mariacunitia, 12625 Koopman, 12626 Timmerman, 12627 Maryedwards, 12746 Yumeginga, 12819 Susumutakahasi, 12850 Axelmunthe, 12911 Goodhue, 12935 Zhengzhemin

Meanings of minor planet names: 13001–14000 is missing:
 * 13003 Dickbeasley, 13017 Owakenoomi, 13037 Potosi, 13044 Wannes, 13045 Vermandere, 13053 Bertrandrussell, 13064 Haemhouts, 13069 Umbertoeco, 13079 Toots, 13079 Toots, 13097 Lamoraal, 13109 Berzelius, 13112 Montmorency, 13113 Williamyeats, 13114 Isabelgodin, 13115 Jeangodin, 13140 Shinchukai, 13156 Mannoucyo, 13163 Koyamachuya, 13178 Catalan, 13179 Johncochrane, 13188 Okinawa, 13209 Arnhem, 13213 Maclaurin, 13214 Chirikov, 13244 Dannymeyer, 13253 Stejneger, 13408 Deadoklestic, 13493 Lockwood, 13561 Kudogou, 13564 Kodomomiraikan, 13565 Yotakanashi, 13567 Urabe, 13576 Gotoyoshi, 13577 Ukawa, 13582 Tominari, 13605 Nakamuraminoru, 13608 Andosatoru, 13641 de Lesseps, 13650 Perimedes, 13654 Masuda, 13672 Tarski, 13679 Shinanogawa, 13686 Kongozan, 13787 Nagaishi, 13918 Tsukinada, 13978 Hiwasa

Meanings of minor planet names: 14001–15000 is missing:
 * 14046 Keikai, 14339 Knorre, 14491 Hitachiomiya, 14492 Bistar, 14515 Koichisato, 14728 Schuchardt, 14739 Edgarchavez, 14818 Mindeli, 14819 Nikolaylaverov

Meanings of minor planet names: 15001–16000 is missing:
 * 15007 Edoardopozio, 15028 Soushiyou, 15148 Michaelmaryott, 15199 Rodnyanskaya, 15212 Yaroslavl', 15246 Kumeta, 15248 Hidekazu, 15250 Nishiyamahiro, 15267 Kolyma, 15268 Wendelinefroger, 15295 Tante Riek, 15360 Moncalvo, 15368 Katsuji, 15407 Udakiyoo, 15669 Pshenichner, 15702 Olegkotov, 15785 de Villegas, 15917 Rosahavel, 15925 Rokycany

Meanings of minor planet names: 16001–17000 is missing:
 * 16150 Clinch, 16368 Città di Alba, 16395 Ioannpravednyj, 16414 Le Procope, 16419 Kovalev, 16444 Godefroy, 16516 Efremlevitan, 16524 Hausmann, 16560 Daitor, 16711 Ka-Dar, 16869 Košinár

Meanings of minor planet names: 17001–18000 is missing:
 * 17156 Kennethseitz, 17251 Vondracek, 17446 Mopaku, 17452 Amurreka, 17465 Inawashiroko, 17501 Tetsuro, 17502 Manabeseiji

Meanings of minor planet names: 18001–19000 is missing:
 * 18161 Koshiishi, 18287 Verkin, 18294 Rudenko, 18335 San Cassiano, 18493 Demoleon, 18639 Aoyunzhiyuanzhe, 18731 Vil'bakirov, 18996 Torasan

Meanings of minor planet names: 19001–20000 is missing:
 * 19132 Le Clézio, 19235 van Schurman, 19348 Cueca, 19353 Pierrethierry, 19366 Sudingqiang, 19386 Axelcronstedt, 19398 Creedence, 19400 Emileclaus, 19872 Chendonghua, 19873 Chentao, 19874 Liudongyan, 19919 Pogorelov

Meanings of minor planet names: 21001–22000 is missing:
 * 21073 Darksky, 21160 Saveriolombardi, 21192 Seccisergio, 21284 Pandion, 21301 Zanin

Meanings of minor planet names: 22001–23000 is missing:
 * 22032 Mikekoop, 22105 Pirko, 22184 Rudolfveltman, 22253 Sivers, 22429 Jurašek, 22612 Dandibner, 22613 Callander, 22616 Bogolyubov, 22617 Vidphananu, 22645 Rotblat, 22647 Lévi-Strauss, 22686 Mishchenko, 22706 Ganguly, 22723 Edlopez, 22724 Byatt, 22725 Drabble, 22730 Jacobhurwitz, 22736 Kamitaki, 22744 Esterantonucci, 22783 Teng, 22855 Donnajones

Meanings of minor planet names: 23001–24000 is missing:
 * 23244 Lafayette, 23259 Miwadagakuen, 23401 Brodskaya, 23403 Boudewijnbuch, 23404 Bomans, 23409 Derzhavin, 23549 Epicles, 23571 Zuaboni, 23648 Kolář

Meanings of minor planet names: 24001–25000 is missing:
 * 24087 Ciambetti, 24647 Maksimachev, 24754 Zellyfry, 24856 Messidoro, 24919 Teruyoshi

Meanings of minor planet names: 25001–26000 is missing:
 * 25125 Brodallan, 25175 Lukeandraka, 25176 Thomasaunins, 25178 Shreebose, 25180 Kenyonconlin, 25182 Siddhawan, 25183 Grantfisher, 25184 Taylorgaines, 25189 Glockner, 25190 Thomasgoodin, 25191 Rachelouise, 25193 Taliagreene, 25198 Kylienicole, 25199 Jiahegu, 25212 Ayushgupta, 25256 Imbrie-Moore, 25257 Elizmakarron, 25264 Erickeen, 25266 Taylorkinyon, 25290 Vibhuti, 25294 Johnlaberee, 25298 Fionapaine, 25309 Chrisauer, 25312 Asiapossenti, 25321 Rohitsingh, 25322 Rebeccajean, 25326 Lawrencesun, 25333 Britwenger, 25348 Wisniowiecki, 25354 Zdasiuk, 25365 Bernreuter, 25366 Maureenbobo, 25367 Cicek, 25368 Gailcolwell, 25369 Dawndonovan, 25370 Karenfletch, 25371 Frangaley, 25372 Shanagarza, 25373 Gorsch, 25374 Harbrucker, 25376 Christikeen, 25377 Rolaberee, 25378 Erinlambert, 25381 Jerrynelson, 25402 Angelanorse, 25403 Carlapiazza, 25404 Shansample, 25405 Jeffwidder, 25406 Debwysocki, 25412 Arbesfeld, 25413 Dorischen, 25414 Cherkassky, 25415 Jocelyn, 25416 Chyanwen, 25417 Coquillette, 25418 Deshmukh, 25421 Gafaran, 25424 Gunasekaran, 25425 Chelsealynn, 25427 Kratchmarov, 25428 Lakhanpal, 25430 Ericlarson, 25432 Josepherli, 25455 Anissamak, 25456 Caitlinmann, 25457 Mariannamao, 25462 Haydenmetsky, 25464 Maxrabinovich, 25465 Rajagopalan, 25468 Ramakrishna, 25469 Ransohoff, 25475 Lizrao, 25476 Sealfon, 25477 Preyashah, 25478 Shrock, 25479 Ericshyu, 25481 Willjaysun, 25482 Tallapragada, 25483 Trusheim, 25486 Michaelwham, 25488 Figueiredo, 25490 Kevinkelly, 25492 Firnberg, 25495 Michaelroddy, 25497 Brauerman, 25509 Rodwong, 25510 Donvincent, 25512 Anncomins, 25513 Weseley, 25514 Lisawu, 25515 Briancarey, 25516 Davidknight, 25517 Davidlau, 25531 Lessek, 25538 Markcarlson, 25539 Roberthelm, 25541 Greathouse, 25542 Garabedian, 25543 Fruen, 25544 Renerogers, 25549 Jonsauer, 25551 Drewhall, 25552 Gaster, 25553 Ivanlafer, 25554 Jayaranjan, 25555 Ratnavarma, 25560 Chaihaoxi, 25561 Leehyunki, 25562 Limdarren, 25565 Lusiyang, 25566 Panying, 25570 Kesun, 25577 Wangmanqiang, 25580 Xuelai, 25584 Zhangnelson, 25607 Tsengiching, 25608 Hincapie, 25609 Bogantes, 25611 Mabellin, 25612 Yaoskalucia, 25613 Bubenicek, 25614 Jankral, 25615 Votroubek, 25616 Riinuots, 25617 Thomasnesch, 25619 Martonspohn, 25620 Jayaprakash, 25629 Mukherjee, 25630 Sarkar, 25636 Vaishnav, 25639 Fedina, 25640 Klintefelt, 25646 Noniearora, 25648 Baghel, 25650 Shaubakshi, 25652 Maddieball, 25653 Baskaran, 25655 Baupeter, 25656 Bejnood, 25657 Berkowitz, 25658 Bokor, 25659 Liboynton, 25662 Chonofsky, 25663 Nickmycroft, 25669 Kristinrose, 25670 Densley, 25673 Di Mascio, 25674 Kevinellis, 25676 Jesseellison, 25678 Ericfoss, 25679 Andrewguo, 25680 Walterhansen, 25683 Haochenhong, 25685 Katlinhornig, 25686 Stephoskins, 25688 Hritzo, 25689 Duannihuang, 25690 Iredale, 25693 Ishitani, 25695 Eileenjang, 25696 Kylejones, 25697 Kadiyala, 25698 Snehakannan, 25704 Kendrick, 25706 Cekoscielski, 25708 Vedantkumar, 25710 Petelandgren, 25711 Lebovits, 25714 Aprillee, 25715 Lizmariemako, 25717 Ritikmal, 25720 Mallidi, 25721 Anartya, 25722 Evanmarshall, 25723 Shamascharak, 25725 McCormick, 25744 Surajmishra, 25751 Mokshagundam, 25763 Naveenmurali, 25764 Divyanag, 25765 Heatherlynne, 25766 Nosarzewski, 25767 Stevennoyce, 25768 Nussbaum, 25769 Munaoli, 25772 Ashpatra, 25775 Danielpeng, 25781 Rajendra, 25783 Brandontyler, 25793 Chrisanchez, 25798 Reneeschaaf, 25799 Anmaschlegel, 25807 Baharshah, 25813 Savannahshaw, 25814 Preesinghal, 25815 Scottskirlo, 25817 Tahilramani, 25819 Tripathi, 25822 Carolinejune, 25823 Dentrujillo, 25824 Viviantsang, 25832 Van Scoyoc, 25834 Vechinski, 25836 Harishvemuri, 25870 Panchovigil, 25875 Wickramasekara, 25877 Katherinexue, 25878 Sihengyou, 25885 Wiesinger, 25899 Namratanand, 25901 Ericbrooks, 25903 Yuvalcalev, 25907 Capodilupo, 25912 Recawkwell, 25919 Comuniello, 25920 Templeanne, 25927 Jagandelman, 25931 Peterhu, 25933 Ruoyijiang, 25953 Lanairlett, 25962 Yifanli, 25963 Elisalin, 25964 Liudavid, 25965 Masihdas, 25970 Nelakanti, 25972 Pfefferjosh, 25973 Puranik, 25978 Katerudolph, 25981 Shahmirian, 25986 Sunanda, 25987 Katherynshi, 25988 Janesuh, 25992 Benjamensun, 25993 Kevinxu, 25994 Lynnelleye

Meanings of minor planet names: 26001–27000 is missing:
 * 26002 Angelayeung, 26004 Loriying, 26007 Lindazhou, 26013 Amandalonzo, 26075 Levitsvet, 26127 Otakasakajyo, 26151 Irinokaigan, 26194 Chasolivier, 26223 Enari, 26232 Antink, 26233 Jimbraun, 26234 Leslibrinson, 26235 Annemaduggan, 26238 Elduval, 26240 Leigheriks, 26243 Sallyfenska, 26246 Mikelake, 26247 Doleonardi, 26248 Longenecker, 26250 Shaneludwig, 26251 Kiranmanne, 26255 Carmarques, 26259 Marzigliano, 26264 McIntyre, 26266 Andrewmerrill, 26267 Nickmorgan, 26268 Nardi, 26269 Marciaprill, 26271 Lindapuster, 26273 Kateschafer, 26291 Terristaples, 26293 Van Muyden, 26295 Vilardi, 26298 Dunweathers, 26300 Herbweiss, 26301 Hellawillis, 26302 Zimolzak, 26307 Friedafein, 26586 Harshaw, 26591 Robertreeves, 26665 Sidjena, 26793 Bolshoi

Meanings of minor planet names: 27001–28000 is missing:
 * 27412 Teague, 27658 Dmitrijbagalej, 27827 Ukai, 27855 Giorgilli, 27865 Ludgerfroebel, 27938 Guislain, 27960 Dobiáš, 27967 Beppebianchi

Meanings of minor planet names: 28001–29000 is missing:
 * 28341 Bingaman

Meanings of minor planet names: 29001–30000 is missing:
 * 29199 Himeji, 29214 Apitzsch, 29249 Hiraizumi, 29250 Helmutmoritz, 29307 Torbernbergman, 29311 Lesire, 29483 Boeker, 29528 Kaplinski, 29568 Gobbi-Belcredi

Meanings of minor planet names: 84001–85000 is missing:
 * 84951 Kenwilson


 * I say go ahead and redirect them anyways; I don't view such information as important to preserve in the slightest, especially since a quick Google search will give the same thing. No big loss. StringTheory11 (t • c) 19:06, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Update: 3rd pass using rules #1-7, but relaxed rule #6, is complete. All but ~3 of the above 555 missing-meaning asteroids were redirected. ~3 of them had live AfDs so were not touched.

There should now be ~857 non-redirected asteroid articles numbered > 2000. The Astronomy cleanup listing is now down from 20% of all astro articles being marked for cleanup before I started to 10%.

I also went through all current asteroid redirects, adding R to list entry to ~3704, and propagating categories on ~45 uncategorized redirects (entirely-uncategorized redirects were actually in the minority). However, this doesn't mean that all redirects have all of their parent article's categories (but the ones I touched do). ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf) 18:55, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Code: To facilitate the redirect process, I made an AWB module to increment and/or decrement any number on a page. I thought I'd share it here: User:Tom.Reding/Inc & Dec AWB Module. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf) 20:46, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Update 4th pass using the parent Category:Minor planets (instead of the child Category:Main Belt asteroid stubs) added 223 redirects and 1584 "keeps" numbered > 2000.

Of the 1584 keeps were 183 unnamed asteroids numbered > 2000 with only a preliminary designation (no final designation per JPL), and an additional 26 numbered <= 2000, for a total of 209. Therefore, they are without a list to redirect them to (that I know of). If anyone knows if there's a place to redirect these that would be helpful. Otherwise, some of these could actually be proper AfDs. I'll separate these 209 in below. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf) 14:10, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Summary of Remaining Redirected & Unredirected Asteroid Articles

 * Thank you for the number counts. But this is also why I think the largest asteroids of their type (such as 3737 Beckman) should not be re-directed. I have noticed that regardless of size (or absmag), all asteroids at CAT:NN are being sent to AfD. It looks to me like re-directing 80% of the bot created stubs with higher numbered asteroids has fixed the fundamental problem. (I was away from Wikipedia all March and April as I had to deal with multiple family emergencies.) -- Kheider (talk) 15:19, 15 May 2015 (UTC)


 * I agree, if the diameter was determined using the known (as opposed to assumed) albedo of the asteroid, or if the absmag is unusually bright or dim (and the albedo isn't yet known). To be safe,and easy I did not redirect asteroids with a diameter listed.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  16:08, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

<div class="NavFrame collapsed" style="border-style: none; text-align: left; border: #000 solid 2px; -moz-border-radius: 5px; padding: 1px; font-size: 85%;"> *1721 unredirected asteroid articles numbered > 2000</b> • 2001 Einstein

• 2002 Euler

• 2003 Harding

• 2006 Polonskaya

• 2007 McCuskey

• 2009 Voloshina

• 2010 Chebyshev

• 2013 Tucapel

• 2017 Wesson

• 2019 van Albada

• 2023 Asaph

• 2024 McLaughlin

• 2031 BAM

• 2032 Ethel

• 2042 Sitarski

• 2044 Wirt

• 2047 Smetana

• 2054 Gawain

• 2060 Chiron

• 2061 Anza

• 2062 Aten

• 2063 Bacchus

• 2064 Thomsen

• 2065 Spicer

• 2067 Aksnes

• 2069 Hubble

• 2072 Kosmodemyanskaya

• 2080 Jihlava

• 2090 Mizuho

• 2091 Sampo

• 2093 Genichesk

• 2094 Magnitka

• 2098 Zyskin

• 2100 Ra-Shalom

• 2101 Adonis

• 2104 Toronto

• 2111 Tselina

• 2112 Ulyanov

• 2114 Wallenquist

• 2120 Tyumenia

• 2122 Pyatiletka

• 2124 Nissen

• 2126 Gerasimovich

• 2127 Tanya

• 2131 Mayall

• 2134 Dennispalm

• 2135 Aristaeus

• 2139 Makharadze

• 2140 Kemerovo

• 2143 Jimarnold

• 2145 Blaauw

• 2146 Stentor

• 2148 Epeios

• 2151 Hadwiger

• 2156 Kate

• 2159 Kukkamäki

• 2173 Maresjev

• 2175 Andrea Doria

• 2177 Oliver

• 2181 Fogelin

• 2186 Keldysh

• 2187 La Silla

• 2188 Orlenok

• 2197 Shanghai

• 2202 Pele

• 2204 Lyyli

• 2207 Antenor

• 2212 Hephaistos

• 2213 Meeus

• 2223 Sarpedon

• 2227 Otto Struve

• 2228 Soyuz-Apollo

• 2241 Alcathous

• 2244 Tesla

• 2253 Espinette

• 2259 Sofievka

• 2260 Neoptolemus

• 2273 Yarilo

• 2274 Ehrsson

• 2276 Warck

• 2282 Andrés Bello

• 2285 Ron Helin

• 2292 Seili

• 2293 Guernica

• 2301 Whitford

• 2302 Florya

• 2304 Slavia

• 2308 Schilt

• 2311 El Leoncito

• 2312 Duboshin

• 2323 Zverev

• 2324 Janice

• 2338 Bokhan

• 2340 Hathor

• 2349 Kurchenko

• 2357 Phereclos

• 2363 Cebriones

• 2364 Seillier

• 2385 Mustel

• 2398 Jilin

• 2416 Sharonov

• 2420 Čiurlionis

• 2422 Perovskaya

• 2423 Ibarruri

• 2429 Schürer

• 2433 Sootiyo

• 2436 Hatshepsut

• 2442 Corbett

• 2443 Tomeileen

• 2449 Kenos

• 2456 Palamedes

• 2472 Bradman

• 2474 Ruby

• 2477 Biryukov

• 2478 Tokai

• 2480 Papanov

• 2490 Bussolini

• 2504 Gaviola

• 2513 Baetslé

• 2523 Ryba

• 2524 Budovicium

• 2529 Rockwell Kent

• 2531 Cambridge

• 2542 Calpurnia

• 2543 Machado

• 2545 Verbiest

• 2563 Boyarchuk

• 2572 Annschnell

• 2575 Bulgaria

• 2578 Saint-Exupéry

• 2590 Mourão

• 2591 Dworetsky

• 2606 Odessa

• 2608 Seneca

• 2613 Plzeň

• 2622 Bolzano

• 2629 Rudra

• 2630 Hermod

• 2637 Bobrovnikoff

• 2644 Victor Jara

• 2648 Owa

• 2649 Oongaq

• 2658 Gingerich

• 2661 Bydžovský

• 2669 Shostakovich

• 2674 Pandarus

• 2675 Tolkien

• 2685 Masursky

• 2696 Magion

• 2699 Kalinin

• 2709 Sagan

• 2713 Luxembourg

• 2726 Kotelnikov

• 2730 Barks

• 2741 Valdivia

• 2747 Český Krumlov

• 2751 Campbell

• 2752 Wu Chien-Shiung

• 2759 Idomeneus

• 2774 Tenojoki

• 2779 Mary

• 2783 Chernyshevskij

• 2796 Kron

• 2797 Teucer

• 2798 Vergilius

• 2807 Karl Marx

• 2815 Soma

• 2829 Bobhope

• 2830 Greenwich

• 2832 Lada

• 2839 Annette

• 2862 Vavilov

• 2865 Laurel

• 2867 Šteins

• 2892 Filipenko

• 2895 Memnon

• 2896 Preiss

• 2899 Runrun Shaw

• 2903 Zhuhai

• 2905 Plaskett

• 2906 Caltech

• 2907 Nekrasov

• 2920 Automedon

• 2926 Caldeira

• 2934 Aristophanes

• 2937 Gibbs

• 2939 Coconino

• 2940 Bacon

• 2942 Cordie

• 2945 Zanstra

• 2956 Yeomans

• 2959 Scholl

• 2968 Iliya

• 2980 Cameron

• 2981 Chagall

• 2984 Chaucer

• 2985 Shakespeare

• 2991 Bilbo

• 2993 Wendy

• 2995 Taratuta

• 2997 Cabrera

• 3001 Michelangelo

• 3005 Pervictoralex

• 3015 Candy

• 3017 Petrovič

• 3025 Higson

• 3031 Houston

• 3040 Kozai

• 3043 San Diego

• 3047 Goethe

• 3054 Strugatskia

• 3063 Makhaon

• 3064 Zimmer

• 3066 McFadden

• 3068 Khanina

• 3074 Popov

• 3080 Moisseiev

• 3081 Martinůboh

• 3099 Hergenrother

• 3103 Eger

• 3109 Machin

• 3122 Florence

• 3123 Dunham

• 3131 Mason-Dixon

• 3133 Sendai

• 3137 Horky

• 3141 Buchar

• 3142 Kilopi

• 3147 Samantha

• 3169 Ostro

• 3176 Paolicchi

• 3178 Yoshitsune

• 3184 Raab

• 3196 Maklaj

• 3198 Wallonia

• 3199 Nefertiti

• 3200 Phaethon

• 3201 Sijthoff

• 3204 Lindgren

• 3225 Hoag

• 3240 Laocoon

• 3247 Di Martino

• 3256 Daguerre

• 3267 Glo

• 3278 Běhounek

• 3281 Maupertuis

• 3288 Seleucus

• 3290 Azabu

• 3300 McGlasson

• 3309 Brorfelde

• 3316 Herzberg

• 3317 Paris

• 3318 Blixen

• 3325 TARDIS

• 3327 Campins

• 3332 Raksha

• 3333 Schaber

• 3343 Nedzel

• 3345 Tarkovskij

• 3350 Scobee

• 3351 Smith

• 3352 McAuliffe

• 3353 Jarvis

• 3354 McNair

• 3355 Onizuka

• 3356 Resnik

• 3360 Syrinx

• 3361 Orpheus

• 3362 Khufu

• 3370 Kohsai

• 3391 Sinon

• 3401 Vanphilos

• 3402 Wisdom

• 3403 Tammy

• 3406 Omsk

• 3412 Kafka

• 3419 Guth

• 3425 Hurukawa

• 3428 Roberts

• 3430 Bradfield

• 3434 Hurless

• 3444 Stepanian

• 3451 Mentor

• 3467 Bernheim

• 3494 Purple Mountain

• 3497 Innanen

• 3525 Paul

• 3529 Dowling

• 3530 Hammel

• 3537 Jürgen

• 3540 Protesilaos

• 3541 Graham

• 3543 Ningbo

• 3544 Borodino

• 3548 Eurybates

• 3551 Verenia

• 3552 Don Quixote

• 3554 Amun

• 3563 Canterbury

• 3564 Talthybius

• 3568 ASCII

• 3578 Carestia

• 3581 Alvarez

• 3587 Descartes

• 3590 Holst

• 3596 Meriones

• 3600 Archimedes

• 3605 Davy

• 3617 Eicher

• 3628 Božněmcová

• 3631 Sigyn

• 3635 Kreutz

• 3637 O'Meara

• 3640 Gostin

• 3642 Frieden

• 3657 Ermolova

• 3669 Vertinskij

• 3671 Dionysus

• 3672 Stevedberg

• 3673 Levy

• 3674 Erbisbühl

• 3675 Kemstach

• 3682 Welther

• 3685 Derdenye

• 3687 Dzus

• 3688 Navajo

• 3689 Yeates

• 3691 Bede

• 3696 Herald

• 3697 Guyhurst

• 3698 Manning

• 3700 Geowilliams

• (3708) 1974 FV1

• 3709 Polypoites

• 3710 Bogoslovskij

• 3722 Urata

• 3724 Annenskij

• 3728 IRAS

• 3729 Yangzhou

• 3731 Hancock

• 3737 Beckman

• 3748 Tatum

• 3749 Balam

• 3752 Camillo

• 3753 Cruithne

• 3754 Kathleen

• 3757 Anagolay

• 3761 Romanskaya

• 3782 Celle

• 3784 Chopin

• 3785 Kitami

• 3789 Zhongguo

• 3790 Raywilson

• 3793 Leonteus

• 3794 Sthenelos

• 3800 Karayusuf

• 3806 Tremaine

• 3807 Pagels

• 3811 Karma

• 3850 Peltier

• 3854 George

• 3855 Pasasymphonia

• 3873 Roddy

• 3880 Kaiserman

• 3888 Hoyt

• 3893 DeLaeter

• 3906 Chao

• 3908 Nyx

• 3915 Fukushima

• 3917 Franz Schubert

• 3924 Birch

• 3927 Feliciaplatt

• 3935 Toatenmongakkai

• 3936 Elst

• 3949 Mach

• 3953 Perth

• 3960 Chaliubieju

• 3962 Valyaev (asteroid)

• 3963 Paradzhanov

• 3968 Koptelov

• 3974 Verveer

• 3986 Rozhkovskij

• 3988 Huma

• 3993 Šorm

• 3999 Aristarchus

• 4001 Ptolemaeus

• 4007 Euryalos

• 4008 Corbin

• 4009 Drobyshevskij

• 4015 Wilson–Harrington

• 4022 Nonna

• 4029 Bridges

• 4031 Mueller

• 4034 Vishnu

• (4035) 1986 WD

• 4045 Lowengrub

• 4047 Chang'E

• 4055 Magellan

• 4057 Demophon

• 4063 Euforbo

• 4065 Meinel

• 4080 Galinskij

• 4082 Swann

• 4085 Weir

• 4086 Podalirius

• 4087 Pärt

• 4090 Říšehvězd

• 4111 Lamy

• 4112 Hrabal

• 4118 Sveta

• 4121 Carlin

• 4130 Ramanujan

• 4142 Dersu-Uzala

• 4143 Huziak

• 4146 Rudolfinum

• 4147 Lennon

• 4148 McCartney

• 4149 Harrison

• 4150 Starr

• 4153 Roburnham

• 4162 SAF

• 4169 Celsius

• 4172 Rochefort

• 4174 Pikulia

• 4175 Billbaum

• 4176 Sudek

• 4177 Kohman

• 4179 Toutatis

• 4183 Cuno

• 4185 Phystech

• 4190 Kvasnica

• 4197 Morpheus

• 4201 Orosz

• 4204 Barsig

• 4205 David Hughes

• 4214 Veralynn

• 4217 Engelhardt

• 4224 Susa

• 4226 Damiaan

• 4230 van den Bergh

• 4238 Audrey

• 4241 Pappalardo

• 4261 Gekko

• 4265 Kani

• 4276 Clifford

• 4289 Biwako

• 4294 Horatius

• 4299 WIYN

• 4302 Markeev

• 4303 Savitskij

• 4308 Magarach

• 4318 Baťa

• 4321 Zero

• 4323 Hortulus

• 4332 Milton

• 4336 Jasniewicz

• 4340 Dence

• 4348 Poulydamas

• 4349 Tibúrcio

• 4354 Euclides

• 4362 Carlisle

• 4368 Pillmore

• 4378 Voigt

• 4401 Aditi

• 4422 Jarre

• 4429 Chinmoy

• 4432 McGraw-Hill

• 4442 Garcia

• 4450 Pan

• 4451 Grieve

• 4457 van Gogh

• 4467 Kaidanovskij

• 4478 Blanco

• 4483 Petöfi

• 4486 Mithra

• (4489) 1988 AK

• 4492 Debussy

• 4498 Shinkoyama

• 4502 Elizabethann

• 4505 Okamura

• 4509 Gorbatskij

• 4525 Johnbauer

• 4543 Phoinix

• 4544 Xanthus

• 4547 Massachusetts

• 4581 Asclepius

• 4587 Rees

• 4593 Reipurth

• 4606 Saheki

• 4608 Wodehouse

• 4617 Zadunaisky

• 4628 Laplace

• 4647 Syuji

• 4659 Roddenberry

• 4660 Nereus

• 4672 Takuboku

• 4674 Pauling

• 4703 Kagoshima

• 4709 Ennomos

• 4712 Iwaizumi

• (4715) 1989 TS1

• 4722 Agelaos

• 4742 Caliumi

• 4754 Panthoos

• 4769 Castalia

• 4773 Hayakawa

• 4776 Luyi

• 4789 Sprattia

• 4791 Iphidamas

• 4793 Slessor

• 4805 Asteropaios

• 4806 Miho

• 4816 Connelly

• 4822 Karge

• 4827 Dares

• 4828 Misenus

• 4831 Baldwin

• 4832 Palinurus

• 4833 Meges

• 4834 Thoas

• 4836 Medon

• 4843 Mégantic

• 4868 Knushevia

• 4894 Ask

• 4897 Tomhamilton

• 4899 Candace

• 4923 Clarke

• 4924 Hiltner

• 4932 Texstapa

• 4942 Munroe

• 4946 Askalaphus

• 4947 Ninkasi

• (4953) 1990 MU

• 4954 Eric

• 4957 Brucemurray

• 4959 Niinoama

• 4963 Kanroku

• 4978 Seitz

• 4997 Ksana

• 5000 IAU

• 5010 Amenemhêt

• 5011 Ptah

• 5020 Asimov

• 5023 Agapenor

• 5026 Martes

• 5027 Androgeos

• 5028 Halaesus

• 5046 Carletonmoore

• 5055 Opekushin

• 5080 Oja

• 5095 Escalante

• 5100 Pasachoff

• 5109 Robertmiller

• (5119) 1988 RA1

• 5120 Bitias

• 5128 Wakabayashi

• 5130 Ilioneus

• 5141 Tachibana

• 5143 Heracles

• 5144 Achates

• 5145 Pholus

• 5148 Giordano

• 5159 Burbine

• 5160 Camoes

• 5171 Augustesen

• 5176 Yoichi

• 5178 Pattazhy

• 5184 Cavaillé-Coll

• 5194 Böttger

• 5196 Bustelli

• 5201 Ferraz-Mello

• 5208 Royer

• 5222 Ioffe

• 5254 Ulysses

• 5259 Epeigeus

• 5261 Eureka

• 5263 Arrius

• 5264 Telephus

• 5281 Lindstrom

• 5283 Pyrrhus

• 5318 Dientzenhofer

• 5331 Erimomisaki

• 5335 Damocles

• 5367 Sollenberger

• 5370 Taranis

• 5381 Sekhmet

• 5385 Kamenka

• 5391 Emmons

• 5402 Kejosmith

• (5407) 1992 AX

• 5430 Luu

• 5457 Queen's

• 5475 Hanskennedy

• (5476) 1989 TO11

• 5497 Sararussell

• 5535 Annefrank

• 5542 Moffatt

• 5545 Makarov

• 5583 Braunerová

• (5590) 1990 VA

• (5604) 1992 FE

• 5635 Cole

• 5638 Deikoon

• 5644 Maureenbell

• (5645) 1990 SP

• (5646) 1990 TR

• (5648) 1990 VU1

• 5653 Camarillo

• 5655 Barney

• 5656 Oldfield

• 5682 Beresford

• 5688 Kleewyck

• 5692 Shirao

• 5694 Berényi

• 5700 Homerus

• 5731 Zeus

• 5748 Davebrin

• 5751 Zao

• 5756 Wassenbergh

• 5786 Talos

• 5805 Glasgow

• 5806 Archieroy

• 5819 Lauretta

• (5836) 1993 MF

• 5855 Yukitsuna

• 5905 Johnson

• 5960 Wakkanai

• 5982 Polykletus

• 5995 Saint-Aignan

• (6002) 1988 RO

• (6037) 1988 EG

• 6052 Junichi

• 6063 Jason

• 6064 Holašovice

• 6075 Zajtsev

• 6084 Bascom

• (6090) 1989 DJ

• 6092 Johnmason

• 6102 Visby

• 6141 Durda

• 6170 Levasseur

• (6178) 1986 DA

• 6183 Viscome

• 6188 Robertpepin

• 6216 San Jose

• 6223 Dahl

• 6229 Tursachan

• 6235 Burney

• 6239 Minos

• 6247 Amanogawa

• 6256 Canova

• 6257 Thorvaldsen

• 6262 Javid

• 6267 Rozhen

• 6282 Edwelda

• 6296 Cleveland

• 6312 Robheinlein

• 6344 P–L

• 6362 Tunis

• 6371 Heinlein

• 6376 Schamp

• 6377 Cagney

• (6382) 1988 EL

• 6398 Timhunter

• 6403 Steverin

• 6433 Enya

• 6473 Winkler

• 6489 Golevka

• (6491) 1991 OA

• 6523 Clube

• 6546 Kaye

• 6566 Shafter

• 6600 Qwerty

• 6674 Cézanne

• 6695 Barrettduff

• 6696 Eubanks

• 6698 Malhotra

• 6708 Bobbievaile

• 6709 Hiromiyuki

• 6715 Sheldonmarks

• 6726 Suthers

• 6734 Benzenberg

• 6758 Jesseowens

• 6789 Milkey

• 6801 Střekov

• 6807 Brünnow

• 6821 Ranevskaya

• 6824 Mallory

• 6828 Elbsteel

• 6841 Gottfriedkirch

• 6894 Macreid

• 6941 Dalgarno

• 6980 Kyusakamoto

• 6984 Lewiscarroll

• 7004 Markthiemens

• 7032 Hitchcock

• 7037 Davidlean

• 7043 Godart

• 7066 Nessus

• 7072 Beijingdaxue

• 7088 Ishtar

• 7092 Cadmus

• 7102 Neilbone

• 7119 Hiera

• 7120 Davidgavine

• 7166 Kennedy

• 7167 Laupheim

• 7194 Susanrose

• 7201 Kuritariku

• 7266 Trefftz

• 7268 Chigorin

• 7271 Doroguntsov

• 7295 Brozovic

• 7307 Takei

• 7317 Cabot

• (7335) 1989 JA

• (7341) 1991 VK

• 7345 Happer

• 7346 Boulanger

• (7352) 1994 CO

• 7369 Gavrilin

• 7389 Michelcombes

• 7403 Choustník

• 7449 Döllen

• (7474) 1992 TC

• (7482) 1994 PC1

• 7505 Furusho

• 7506 Lub

• 7508 Icke

• 7529 Vagnozzi

• 7604 Kridsadaporn

• 7632 Stanislav

• (7641) 1986 TT6

• 7648 Tomboles

• 7666 Keyaki

• 7680 Cari

• 7687 Matthias

• 7739 Čech

• 7776 Takeishi

• 7779 Susanring

• 7794 Sanvito

• 7796 Járacimrman

• 7801 Goretti

• 7816 Hanoi

• 7833 Nilstamm

• 7835 Myroncope

• (7888) 1993 UC

• 7905 Juzoitami

• 7934 Sinatra

• 7939 Asphaug

• (7949) 1992 SU

• 7968 Elst–Pizarro

• 7985 Nedelcu

• 7999 Nesvorný

• 8013 Gordonmoore

• (8014) 1990 MF

• 8026 Johnmckay

• 8034 Akka

• (8035) 1992 TB

• 8080 Intel

• 8123 Canaletto

• 8131 Scanlon

• (8148) 1985 CR2

• (8157) 1988 XG2

• 8191 Mersenne

• (8201) 1994 AH2

• 8210 NANTEN

• (8213) 1995 FE

• 8217 Dominikhašek

• 8256 Shenzhou

• 8262 Carcich

• 8269 Calandrelli

• 8289 An-Eefje

• 8318 Averroes

• 8336 Šafařík

• 8371 Goven

• 8373 Stephengould

• 8379 Straczynski

• 8405 Asbolus

• 8432 Tamakasuga

• 8441 Lapponica

• 8515 Corvan

• 8661 Ratzinger

• 8682 Kräklingbo

• (8689) 1992 PU3

• 8710 Hawley

• 8749 Beatles

• 8776 Campestris

• 8815 Deanregas

• 8847 Huch

• 8881 Prialnik

• 8898 Linnaea

• (8917) 1996 EU2

• (8951) 1997 FO

• 8967 Calandra

• 8990 Compassion

• 8991 Solidarity

• 8992 Magnanimity

• 8993 Ingstad

• 9007 James Bond

• 9009 Tirso

• 9010 Candelo

• 9041 Takane

• 9063 Washi

• 9081 Hideakianno

• (9086) 1995 SA3

• 9115 Battisti

• 9128 Takatumuzi

• 9134 Encke

• 9175 Graun

• 9179 Satchmo

• 9226 Arimahiroshi

• 9255 Inoutadataka

• 9267 Lokrume

• 9341 Gracekelly

• 9342 Carygrant

• 9359 Fleringe

• 9372 Vamlingbo

• 9403 Sanduleak

• 9420 Dewar

• 9478 Caldeyro

• 9491 Thooft

• 9493 Enescu

• 9494 Donici

• 9495 Eminescu

• 9496 Ockels

• 9500 Camelot

• 9524 O'Rourke

• 9553 Colas

• 9564 Jeffwynn

• (9597) 1991 UF

• 9617 Grahamchapman

• 9618 Johncleese

• 9619 Terrygilliam

• 9620 Ericidle

• 9621 Michaelpalin

• 9622 Terryjones

• 9667 Amastrinc

• 9680 Molina

• 9691 Zwaan

• 9705 Drummen

• 9713 Oceax

• 9718 Gerbefremov

• 9767 Midsomer Norton

• 9817 Thersander

• 9823 Annantalová

• 9826 Ehrenfreund

• 9844 Otani

• (9857) 1991 EN

• 9885 Linux

• (9901) 1997 NV

• 9902 Kirkpatrick

• 9903 Leonhardt

• 9904 Mauratombelli

• 9905 Tiziano

• 9906 Tintoretto

• 9907 Oileus

• 9908 Aue

• 9909 Eschenbach

• 9910 Vogelweide

• 9911 Quantz

• 9912 Donizetti

• 9913 Humperdinck

• 9914 Obukhova

• 9915 Potanin

• 9916 Kibirev

• 9917 Keynes

• (9918) 1979 MK3

• 9919 Undset

• 9920 Bagnulo

• (9921) 1981 EO18

• 9922 Catcheller

• (9923) 1981 EB24

• (9924) 1981 EM24

• (9925) 1981 EU24

• (9926) 1981 EU41

• 9927 Tyutchev

• (9928) 1981 WE9

• 9929 McConnell

• 9930 Billburrows

• 9931 Herbhauptman

• 9932 Kopylov

• 9934 Caccioppoli

• 9937 Triceratops

• 9938 Kretlow

• (9935) 1986 CP1

• (9939) 1988 VK

• (9940) 1988 VM3

• 9941 Iguanodon

• (9942) 1989 TM1

• 9943 Bizan

• (9944) 1990 DA3

• 9945 Karinaxavier

• (9946) 1990 ON2

• 9947 Takaishuji

• (9948) 1990 QB2

• 9949 Brontosaurus

• 9950 ESA

• 9951 Tyrannosaurus

• (9952) 1991 AK

• (9953) 1991 EB

• 9954 Brachiosaurus

• (9955) 1991 PU11

• 9956 Castellaz

• 9957 Raffaellosanti

• (9958) 1991 VL1

• (9959) 1991 VF2

• 9960 Sekine

• (9961) 1991 XK

• 9962 Pfau

• 9963 Sandage

• 9964 Hideyonoguchi

• 9965 GNU

• (9966) 1992 ES13

• 9967 Awanoyumi

• 9968 Serpe

• 9969 Braille

• (9970) 1992 ST1

• 9971 Ishihara

• 9972 Minoruoda

• 9973 Szpilman

• 9974 Brody

• 9975 Takimotokoso

• (9976) 1993 TQ

• (9977) 1994 AH

• (9978) 1994 AJ1

• (9979) 1994 VT

• (9980) 1995 BQ3

• 9981 Kudo

• (9982) 1995 CH

• 9983 Rickfienberg

• 9984 Gregbryant

• 9985 Akiko

• 9986 Hirokun

• 9987 Peano

• 9988 Erictemplebell

• (9989) 1997 SG16

• (9990) 1997 SO17

• 9991 Anežka

• (9992) 1997 TG19

• 9993 Kumamoto

• 9994 Grotius

• 9995 Alouette

• 9996 ANS

• 9997 COBE

• 9998 ISO

• 9999 Wiles

• 10000 Myriostos

• 10001 Palermo

• 10100 Bürgel

• 10106 Lergrav

• (10115) 1992 SK

• 10121 Arzamas

• 10125 Stenkyrka

• 10126 Lärbro

• 10127 Fröjel

• 10128 Bro

• 10129 Fole

• 10131 Stånga

• 10132 Lummelunda

• 10136 Gauguin

• 10140 Villon

• 10149 Cavagna

• 10174 Emička

• 10199 Chariklo

• 10234 Sixtygarden

• 10241 Miličević

• 10244 Thüringer Wald

• 10245 Inselsberg

• 10246 Frankenwald

• 10247 Amphiaraos

• 10249 Harz

• 10251 Mulisch

• 10252 Heidigraf

• 10254 Hunsrück

• (10302) 1989 ML

• 10313 Vanessa-Mae

• 10370 Hylonome

• 10373 MacRobert

• 10387 Bepicolombo

• 10515 Old Joe

• 10566 Zabadak

• 10605 Guidoni

• 10606 Crocco

• 10628 Feuerbacher

• 10666 Feldberg

• 10739 Lowman

• 10812 Grötlingbo

• 10813 Mästerby

• 10830 Desforges

• 10928 Caprara

• 10958 Mont Blanc

• 10974 Carolalbert

• 10977 Mathlener

• 10979 Fristephenson

• 10988 Feinstein

• 11020 Orwell

• 11066 Sigurd

• 11072 Hiraoka

• 11083 Caracas

• 11101 Českáfilharmonie

• 11112 Cagnoli

• 11118 Modra

• 11132 Horne

• 11134 České Budějovice

• 11169 Alkon

• 11248 Blériot

• 11264 Claudiomaccone

• 11333 Forman

• (11351) 1997 TS25

• 11371 Camley

• 11373 Carbonaro

• 11378 Dauria

• 11409 Horkheimer

• 11421 Cardano

• 11433 Gemmafrisius

• (11435) 1931 UB

• (11436) 1969 QR

• 11441 Anadiego

• 11500 Tomaiyowit

• 11509 Thersilochos

• 11573 Helmholtz

• 11621 Duccio

• 11665 Dirichlet

• (11671) 1998 BG4

• 11694 Esterhuysen

• 11696 Capen

• 11713 Stubbs

• 11714 Mikebrown

• 11754 Herbig

• 11755 Paczynski

• 11758 Sargent

• 11798 Davidsson

• 11836 Eileen

• 11896 Camelbeeck

• 11948 Justinehénin

• 11949 Kagayayutaka

• 11978 Makotomasako

• 12306 Pebronstein

• 12311 Ingemyr

• 12341 Calevoet

• 12359 Cajigal

• 12373 Lancearmstrong

• 12374 Rakhat

• 12409 Bukovanská

• 12447 Yatescup

• 12482 Pajka

• (12538) 1998 OH

• 12557 Caracol

• 12696 Camus

• 12701 Chénier

• 12758 Kabudari

• 12810 Okumiomote

• (12921) 1998 WZ5

• 12923 Zephyr

• 12999 Toruń

• 13039 Awashima

• (13060) 1991 EJ

• 13062 Podarkes

• 13070 Seanconnery

• 13123 Tyson

• 13154 Petermrva

• 13208 Fraschetti

• 13219 Cailletet

• 13248 Fornasier

• 13260 Sabadell

• 13274 Roygross

• 13327 Reitsema

• 13474 V'yus

• 13482 Igorfedorov

• 13533 Junili

• 13609 Lewicki

• 13722 Campobagatin

• 13732 Woodall

• 13744 Rickline

• (13780) 1998 UZ8

• (13790) 1998 UF31

• 13860 Neely

• 13906 Shunda

• 13921 Sgarbini

• 13933 Charleville

• 13963 Euphrates

• 13977 Frisch

• 14097 Capdepera

• 14098 Šimek

• 14120 Espenak

• 14141 Demeautis

• 14145 Sciam

• 14181 Koromházi

• 14224 Gaede

• 14313 Dodaira

• 14322 Shakura

• 14342 Iglika

• 14571 Caralexander

• 14617 Lasvergnas

• 14627 Emilkowalski

• 14632 Flensburg

• 14643 Morata

• 14654 Rajivgupta

• 14659 Gregoriana

• 14827 Hypnos

• 14835 Holdridge

• 14871 Pyramus

• 15005 Guerriero

• 15017 Cuppy

• 15071 Hallerstein

• 15092 Beegees

• 15107 Toepperwein

• 15139 Connormcarty

• 15149 Loufaix

• 15276 Diebel

• 15350 Naganuma

• 15415 Rika

• 15462 Stumegan

• 15548 Kalinowski

• 15553 Carachang

• 15609 Kosmaczewski

• 15723 Girraween

• 15728 Karlmay

• (15760) 1992 QB1

• 15779 Scottroberts

• (15788) 1993 SB

• (15789) 1993 SC

• (15807) 1994 GV9

• (15809) 1994 JS

• (15810) 1994 JR1

• 15811 Nüsslein-Volhard

• 15817 Lucianotesi

• (15820) 1994 TB

• (15836) 1995 DA2

• 15838 Auclair

• 15841 Yamaguchi

• (15874) 1996 TL66

• (15875) 1996 TP66

• (15883) 1997 CR29

• 15946 Satinský

• 15965 Robertcox

• 16155 Buddy

• 16198 Búzios

• 16246 Cantor

• 16413 Abulghazi

• (16684) 1994 JQ1

• 16715 Trettenero

• 16879 Campai

• 16946 Farnham

• 16984 Veillet

• 17035 Velichko

• 17059 Elvis

• 17079 Lavrovsky

• 17091 Senthalir

• 17092 Sharanya

• 17102 Begzhigitova

• 17121 Fernandonido

• 17163 Vasifedoseev

• 17198 Gorjup

• (17246) 2000 GL74

• 17305 Caniff

• 17516 Kogayukihito

• 17683 Kanagawa

• 17748 Uedashoji

• 17776 Troska

• 17777 Ornicar

• 17795 Elysiasegal

• 17801 Zelkowitz

• 17823 Bartels

• 17836 Canup

• 17856 Gomes

• 17889 Liechty

• 17959 Camierickson

• 18024 Dobson

• 18117 Jonhodge

• 18119 Braude

• 18235 Lynden-Bell

• (18412) 1993 LX

• (18413) 1993 LD1

• 18458 Caesar

• 18505 Caravelli

• 18542 Broglio

• 18610 Arthurdent

• 18653 Christagünt

• 18874 Raoulbehrend

• 18880 Toddblumberg

• 18883 Domegge

• 18918 Nishashah

• 18946 Massar

• 19007 Nirajnathan

• 19139 Apian

• (19255) 1994 VK8

• (19299) 1996 SZ4

• (19308) 1996 TO66

• 19318 Somanah

• 19367 Pink Floyd

• 19379 Labrecque

• 19383 Rolling Stones

• 19521 Chaos

• 19582 Blow

• 19738 Calinger

• 19741 Callahan

• 19763 Klimesh

• 19822 Vonzielonka

• 19980 Barrysimon

• 19981 Bialystock

• 19982 Barbaradoore

• 20000 Varuna

• 20103 de Vico

• 20461 Dioretsa

• 21062 Iasky

• 21064 Yangliwei

• (21083) 1991 TH14

• 21262 Kanba

• 21355 Pikovskaya

• 21387 Wafakhalil

• 21410 Cahill

• 21436 Chaoyichi

• 21438 Camibarnett

• 21439 Robenzing

• 21468 Saylor

• 21509 Lucascavin

• 21517 Dobi

• 21540 Itthipanyanan

• 21541 Friskop

• 21550 Laviolette

• 21561 Masterman

• 21570 Muralidhar

• 21608 Gloyna

• 21609 Williamcaleb

• 21617 Johnhagen

• 21649 Vardhana

• 21652 Vasishtha

• 21656 Knuth

• 21711 Wilfredwong

• 21751 Jennytaylor

• 21754 Tvaruzkova

• 21785 Méchain

• 21801 Ančerl

• 21921 Camdenmiller

• 21970 Tyle

• 22064 Angelalewis

• 22080 Emilevasseur

• 22260 Ur

• 22603 Davidoconnor

• 22692 Carfrekahl

• 22706 Ganguly

• 22732 Jakpor

• 22740 Rayleigh

• 22776 Matossian

• 22838 Darcyhampton

• 22846 Fredwhitaker

• 23059 Paulpaino

• 23122 Lorgat

• 23131 Debenedictis

• 23192 Caysvesterby

• 23199 Bezdek

• 23262 Thiagoolson

• 23265 von Wurden

• 23296 Brianreavis

• 23313 Supokaivanich

• 23327 Luchernandez

• (23624) 1996 UX3

• 23712 Willpatrick

• 23718 Horgos

• 23756 Daniellozano

• 23776 Gosset

• 23809 Haswell

• 24068 Simonsen

• 24101 Cassini

• 24328 Thomasburr

• 24333 Petermassey

• 24524 Kevinhawkins

• 24601 Valjean

• 24626 Astrowizard

• 24643 MacCready

• (24835) 1995 SM55

• (24952) 1997 QJ4

• (24978) 1998 HJ151

• 24985 Benuri

• 25000 Astrometria

• 25088 Yoshimura

• 25108 Boström

• 25109 Hofving

• 25143 Itokawa

• 25300 Andyromine

• 25375 Treenajoi

• 25491 Meador

• 25511 Annlipinsky

• 25518 Paulcitrin

• 25519 Bartolomeo

• 25520 Deronchang

• 25593 Camillejordan

• 25727 Karsonmiller

• 25801 Oliviaschwob

• 25893 Sugihara

• 25924 Douglasadams

• 25925 Jamesfenska

• (26181) 1996 GQ21

• 26195 Černohlávek

• (26308) 1998 SM165

• 26328 Litomyšl

• (26375) 1999 DE9

• 26733 Nanavisitor

• 26734 Terryfarrell

• 26858 Misterrogers

• 26879 Haines

• 26986 Čáslavská

• 27270 Guidotti

• 27949 Jonasz

• 27977 Distratis

• (27981) 1997 UK21

• 28155 Chengzhendai

• 28439 Miguelreyes

• 28978 Ixion

• (29075) 1950 DA

• 29133 Vargas

• 29552 Chern

• 30564 Olomouc

• 30718 Records

• 30778 Döblin

• 30785 Greeley

• (31345) 1998 PG

• (31669) 1999 JT6

• 31956 Wald

• 32720 Simoeisios

• (33001) 1997 CU29

• 33179 Arsènewenger

• (33340) 1998 VG44

• (33342) 1998 WT24

• 33529 Henden

• 33750 Davehiggins

• 33863 Elfriederwin

• 34351 Decatur

• 34718 Cantagalli

• (35144) 1992 YE1

• 35222 Delbarrio

• 35334 Yarkovsky

• (35396) 1997 XF11

• (35671) 1998 SN165

• 35725 Tramuntana

• 36446 Cinodapistoia

• 37022 Robertovittori

• 37117 Narcissus

• 37432 Piszkéstető

• 37452 Spirit

• 37588 Lynnecox

• 37655 Illapa

• 38083 Rhadamanthus

• (38084) 1999 HB12

• 38628 Huya

• 39335 Caccin

• 39382 Opportunity

• 39427 Charlottebrontë

• 39428 Emilybrontë

• 39429 Annebrontë

• (39544) 1991 TN14

• 39741 Komm

• 39748 Guccini

• (39797) 1997 TK18

• (40237) 1998 VM6

• (40314) 1999 KR16

• 40463 Frankkameny

• (42301) 2001 UR163

• 42355 Typhon

• 42365 Caligiuri

• (42493) 1991 TG14

• 42516 Oistrach

• 42981 Jenniskens

• 43954 Chýnov

• 44117 Haroldlarson

• (44594) 1999 OX3

• 44711 Carp

• 45300 Thewrewk

• 45737 Benita

• 46610 Besixdouze

• (47171) 1999 TC36

• 48300 Kronk

• 48411 Johnventre

• (48438) 1989 WJ2

• (48639) 1995 TL8

• 48681 Zeilinger

• 49777 Cappi

• 50000 Quaoar

• 50768 Ianwessen

• 51823 Rickhusband

• 51824 Mikeanderson

• 51825 Davidbrown

• 51826 Kalpanachawla

• 51827 Laurelclark

• 51828 Ilanramon

• 51829 Williemccool

• 52266 Van Flandern

• (52747) 1998 HM151

• (52760) 1998 ML14

• 52872 Okyrhoe

• 52975 Cyllarus

• 53311 Deucalion

• (53319) 1999 JM8

• (53550) 2000 BF19

• 54411 Bobestelle

• 54509 YORP

• 54598 Bienor

• 55428 Cappellaro

• (55565) 2002 AW197

• 55576 Amycus

• (55636) 2002 TX300

• (55637) 2002 UX25

• (55638) 2002 VE95

• 55701 Ukalegon

• 57424 Caelumnoctu

• 57658 Nilrem

• 57901 Hitchens

• (58173) 1990 SS10

• (58295) 1994 JJ9

• 58345 Moomintroll

• 58534 Logos

• (59358) 1999 CL158

• 59793 Clapiès

• 60558 Echeclus

• (60621) 2000 FE8

• 63129 Courtemanche

• 63305 Bobkepple

• 65001 Teodorescu

• (65407) 2002 RP120

• 65489 Ceto

• 65803 Didymos

• (66063) 1998 RO1

• (66391) 1999 KW4

• 66652 Borasisi

• 68109 Naomipasachoff

• (68950) 2002 QF15

• 69230 Hermes

• (69437) 1996 KW2

• (69986) 1998 WW24

• (69987) 1998 WA25

• (69988) 1998 WA31

• (69990) 1998 WU31

• 70679 Urzidil

• 72804 Caldentey

• 73453 Ninomanfredi

• 73511 Lovas

• 74503 Madola

• 77185 Cherryh

• 78249 Capaccioni

• 78431 Kemble

• (78799) 2002 XW93

• 78816 Caripito

• 79254 Tsuda

• 79360 Sila–Nunam

• 79896 Billhaley

• 79912 Terrell

• (79969) 1999 CP133

• (79978) 1999 CC158

• (79983) 1999 DF9

• 80451 Alwoods

• 81203 Polynesia

• (82075) 2000 YW134

• 82092 Kalocsa

• (82158) 2001 FP185

• 83982 Crantor

• (84522) 2002 TC302

• (84719) 2002 VR128

• 84882 Table Mountain

• (84922) 2003 VS2

• (85627) 1998 HP151

• (85633) 1998 KR65

• (85640) 1998 OX4

• (85770) 1998 UP1

• (86039) 1999 NC43

• (86047) 1999 OY3

• (87269) 2000 OO67

• 88297 Huikilolani

• 88611 Teharonhiawako

• (88710) 2001 SL9

• 89735 Tommei

• (89958) 2002 LY45

• (89959) 2002 NT7

• 90140 Gómezdonet

• 90377 Sedna

• 90414 Karpov

• 90482 Orcus

• 90525 Karijanberg

• (90568) 2004 GV9

• (90569) 2004 GY14

• (91133) 1998 HK151

• (91205) 1998 US43

• 91890 Kiriko Matsuri

• 93061 Barbagallo

• 93102 Leroy

• 94400 Hongdaeyong

• 94884 Takuya

• 95008 Ivanobertini

• 95016 Kimjeongho

• 95179 Berkó

• 95219 Borgman

• 95593 Azusienis

• (95625) 2002 GX32

• 95802 Francismuir

• 95959 Covadonga

• 95962 Copito

• 96192 Calgary

• 96193 Edmonton

• 96205 Ararat

• 96623 Leani

• 96747 Crespodasilva

• 98127 Vilgusová

• 98494 Marsupilami

• 98722 Elenaumberto

• 98825 Maryellen

• 99201 Sattler

• 99262 Bleustein

• 99503 Leewonchul

• 99861 Tscharnuter

• 99906 Uofalberta

• (99907) 1989 VA

• 99928 Brainard

• 99942 Apophis

• 99949 Miepgies

• 99950 Euchenor

• 100000 Astronautica

• 100019 Gregorianik

• 100027 Hannaharendt

• 100029 Varnhagen

• 100033 Taizé

• 100047 Leobaeck

• 100049 Césarann

• 100050 Carloshernandez

• 100051 Davidhernandez

• 100268 Rosenthal

• 100416 Syang

• 100596 Perrett

• (101429) 1998 VF31

• (101869) 1999 MM

• 101955 Bennu

• 103422 Laurisirén

• 106537 McCarthy

• 106545 Colanduno

• 106817 Yubangtaek

• 107074 Ansonsylva

• 110393 Rammstein

• 112233 Kammerer

• 112797 Grantjudy

• 112798 Kelindsey

• 113355 Gessler

• 113390 Helvetia

• 114649 Jeanneacker

• 115312 Whither

• 115331 Shrylmiles

• 115449 Robson

• 115801 Punahou

• 115891 Scottmichael

• 116166 Andrémaeder

• 116903 Jeromeapt

• 117032 Davidlane

• 117381 Lindaweiland

• 117413 Ramonycajal

• 117435 Severochoa

• 117506 Wildberg

• 118172 Vorgebirge

• (118228) 1996 TQ66

• (118378) 1999 HT11

• (118379) 1999 HC12

• 118401 LINEAR

• (118702) 2000 OM67

• (119068) 2001 KC77

• (119070) 2001 KP77

• (119878) 2002 CY224

• (119951) 2002 KX14

• (119979) 2002 WC19

• 120120 Kankelborg

• (120132) 2003 FY128

• 120174 Jeffjenny

• (120178) 2003 OP32

• (120216) 2004 EW95

• 120347 Salacia

• (120348) 2004 TY364

• (121514) 1999 UJ7

• (126154) 2001 YH140

• (126155) 2001 YJ140

• 128036 Rafaelnadal

• 128065 Bartbenjamin

• 128297 Ashlevi

• (130391) 2000 JG81

• 131245 Bakich

• (131696) 2001 XT254

• (131697) 2001 XH255

• 132524 APL

• 132661 Carlbaeker

• 133243 Essen

• 133527 Fredearly

• 133528 Ceragioli

• (136120) 2003 LG7

• (136617) 1994 CC

• (137108) 1999 AN10

• (137295) 1999 RB216

• (137924) 2000 BD19

• 142084 Jamesdaniel

• (143649) 2003 QQ47

• 144496 Reingard

• 144633 Georgecarroll

• 144692 Katemary

• (144897) 2004 UX10

• (144898) 2004 VD17

• (144908) 2004 YH32

• (145451) 2005 RM43

• (145452) 2005 RN43

• (145453) 2005 RR43

• 145475 Rehoboth

• (145480) 2005 TB190

• 145523 Lulin

• 145534 Jhongda

• 145558 Raiatea

• 145562 Zurbriggen

• 147397 Bobhazel

• (148209) 2000 CR105

• 148780 Altjira

• (148975) 2001 XA255

• 150035 Williamson

• 150145 Uvic

• 151997 Bauhinia

• 152188 Morricone

• 152559 Bodelschwingh

• (152680) 1998 KJ9

• (153201) 2000 WO107

• 153298 Paulmyers

• (153591) 2001 SN263

• (153814) 2001 WN5

• 154660 Kavelaars

• 157194 Saddlemyer

• 157421 Carolpercy

• 157473 Emuno

• 157640 Baumeler

• 157747 Mandryka

• 158222 Manicolas

• 159351 Leonpascal

• 159409 Ratte

• 159743 Kluk

• 161989 Cacus

• (162173) 1999 JU3

• (163132) 2002 CU11

• (163189) 2002 EU6

• (163249) 2002 GT

• (163364) 2002 OD20

• 163626 Glatfelter

• 163693 Atira

• (164207) 2004 GU9

• 164589 La Sagra

• (172627) 2003 XP10

• 172996 Stooke

• 174567 Varda

• (175113) 2004 PF115

• 175548 Sudzius

• (175706) 1996 FG3

• (177049) 2003 EE16

• 178008 Picard

• (179806) 2002 TD66

• (181708) 1993 FW

• (181902) 1999 RD215

• (182294) 2001 KU76

• (184212) 2004 PB112

• 185638 Erwinschwab

• (185851) 2000 DP107

• 187700 Zagreb

• (192642) 1999 RD32

• (196256) 2003 EH1

• 197856 Tafelmusik

• (202421) 2005 UQ513

• (208996) 2003 AZ84

• (214869) 2007 PA8

• 216433 Milianleo

• (225088) 2007 OR10

• (225312) 1996 XB27

• (229762) 2007 UK126

• (230965) 2004 XA192

• (237442) 1999 TA10

• (242450) 2004 QY2

• (248835) 2006 SX368

• (251732) 1998 HG49

• 274301 Wikipedia

• (276033) 2002 AJ129

• (277475) 2005 WK4

• (277810) 2006 FV35

• (278361) 2007 JJ43

• (285263) 1998 QE2

• (292220) 2006 SU49

• (303775) 2005 QU182

• (307261) 2002 MS4

• (307463) 2002 VU130

• (307616) 2003 QW90

• (308193) 2005 CB79

• (308242) 2005 GO21

• (308635) 2005 YU55

• (308933) 2006 SQ372

• (309239) 2007 RW10

• (310071) 2010 KR59

• (311999) 2007 NS2

• (315898) 2008 QD4

• (316179) 2010 EN65

• (322756) 2001 CK32

• (325325) 2008 JA14

• (332446) 2008 AF4

• (341843) 2008 EV5

• (343158) 2009 HC82

• (350462) 1998 KG3

• (357439) 2004 BL86

• (367789) 2011 AG5

• 367943 Duende

• (374158) 2004 UL

• (385185) 1993 RO

• (385250) 2001 DH47

• 385446 Manwë

• (385571) 2004 UP10

• (385695) 2005 TO74

• (386454) 2008 XM

• (386723) 2009 YE7

• (388188) 2006 DP14

• (391211) 2006 HZ51

• (392741) 2012 SQ31

• (394130) 2006 HY51

• (410777) 2009 FD

• (415029) 2011 UL21

• (416151) 2002 RQ25

• (420356) 2012 BX85

• (432949) 2012 HH2 <div class="NavFrame collapsed" style="border-style: none; text-align: left; border: #000 solid 2px; -moz-border-radius: 5px; padding: 1px; font-size: 85%;"> **209 unnumbered, unredirected asteroid articles</b> • 1991 BA

• 1991 VG

• 1992 OV2

• 1993 HD

• 1993 RP

• 1994 WR12

• 1994 XL1

• 1995 GJ

• 1995 SN55

• 1996 PW

• 1997 SZ10

• 1997 XR2

• 1998 DK36

• 1998 KY26

• 1998 WW31

• 1999 AO10

• 1999 CD158

• 1999 CW8

• 1999 LE31

• 1999 OJ4

• 1999 TR11

• 1999 XS35

• 2000 DG8

• 2000 EM26

• 2000 SG344

• 2000 YH2

• 2001 GO2

• 2001 QF298

• 2001 QR322

• 2001 QW322

• 2001 YB5

• 2002 AA29

• 2002 AT4

• 2002 AY1

• 2002 CY248

• 2002 JE9

• 2002 LT38

• 2002 MN

• 2002 RN109

• 2002 VE68

• 2002 XV93

• 2003 BR47

• 2003 BV35

• 2003 LA7

• 2003 QX113

• 2003 RW11

• 2003 SM84

• 2003 UZ413

• 2003 YN107

• 2004 AS1

• 2004 BX159

• 2004 FH

• 2004 FU162

• 2004 HR56

• 2004 JG6

• 2004 KV18

• 2004 NT33

• 2004 TG10

• 2004 TN1

• 2004 VN112

• 2004 XP14

• 2004 XR190

• 2005 HC4

• 2005 NB56

• 2005 SA

• 2005 SB

• 2005 TN53

• 2005 TN74

• 2005 VD

• 2005 VX3

• 2005 WY55

• 2006 BL8

• 2006 HH123

• 2006 HJ123

• 2006 JY26

• 2006 QH181

• 2006 RH120

• 2006 RJ103

• 2006 XG1

• 2007 CA19

• 2007 EB26

• 2007 JH43

• 2007 NC7

• 2007 OX

• 2007 TG422

• 2007 TU24

• 2007 VE191

• 2007 VK184

• 2007 VL305

• 2007 WD5

• 2007 WX3

• 2007 YV56

• 2008 AO112

• 2008 BT18

• 2008 CK70

• 2008 FF5

• 2008 HJ

• 2008 HO3

• 2008 HQ3

• 2008 HR3

• 2008 HS3

• 2008 KV42

• 2008 LC18

• 2008 OG19

• 2008 ST291

• 2008 TC3

• 2009 BD

• 2009 DD45

• 2009 KK

• 2009 RR

• 2009 VA

• 2009 WM1

• 2010 AA15

• 2010 AB78

• 2010 AL30

• 2010 AU118

• 2010 EK139

• 2010 EU65

• 2010 FX86

• 2010 GA6

• 2010 GB174

• 2010 JL88

• 2010 KQ

• 2010 KZ39

• 2010 MJ72

• 2010 RE64

• 2010 RF12

• 2010 RF43

• 2010 RX30

• 2010 SO16

• 2010 TD54

• 2010 TJ

• 2010 TK7

• 2010 TY53

• 2010 VK201

• 2010 VR11

• 2010 VZ98

• 2010 XC15

• 2010 XG11

• 2011 BT15

• 2011 CQ1

• 2011 EO40

• 2011 FW62

• 2011 GA

• 2011 GM27

• 2011 HM102

• 2011 KW48

• 2011 MD

• 2011 QF99

• 2011 SC191

• 2011 SL25

• 2011 UN63

• 2011 XC2

• 2012 BX34

• 2012 DR30

• 2012 EG5

• 2012 FC71

• 2012 FN

• 2012 FP35

• 2012 GX17

• 2012 KP24

• 2012 KT42

• 2012 LZ1

• 2012 MU2

• 2012 TC4

• 2012 VP113

• 2012 XE133

• 2012 YQ1

• 2013 AZ60

• 2013 BL76

• 2013 BP73

• 2013 BS45

• 2013 EC

• 2013 ET

• 2013 FW13

• 2013 FY27

• 2013 FZ27

• 2013 JX28

• 2013 LA2

• 2013 LX28

• 2013 MZ5

• 2013 ND15

• 2013 PDC-E

• 2013 PJ10

• 2013 RH74

• 2013 TV135

• 2013 XY8

• 2013 YP139

• 2014 AA

• 2014 AF5

• 2014 DX110

• 2014 EC

• 2014 HQ124

• 2014 LY21

• 2014 MT69

• 2014 MU69

• 2014 OL339

• 2014 OO6

• 2014 OS393

• 2014 PN70

• 2014 RC

• 2014 SC324

• 2014 UM33

• 2014 UR116

• 2014 XL7

• 2014 YB35

• 2015 AZ43

• 2015 BP513

• 2015 DB216 ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf) 15:32, 15 May 2015 (UTC)


 * I hope you are NOT declaring open season on near-Earth asteroids which is a whole different concept than bot-generated numbered main-belt asteroids! -- Kheider (talk) 15:48, 15 May 2015 (UTC)


 * No, not specifically. However, there are ~12,500 known NEOs, and if a stub was made which met the criteria set above (links only to JPL/MPC, no non-JPL/MPC information in the article, no diameter measurement, etc.) should they not be redirects?  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  16:05, 15 May 2015 (UTC)


 * I am assuming none of the unnumbered NEAs were bot-generated. I would think low-numbered NEAs would be notable as they would again be among the largest such asteroids. -- Kheider (talk) 17:47, 15 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Going through the 209 unredirected, unnamed asteroids above, only these 8 9 are legitimate redirect candidates: NEOs: 2001 YB5, 2003 BV35, 2003 RW11, 2007 OX, 2013 RH74, not-NEO: 1992 OV2, 2005 SA, 2005 SB, 2007 WX3. None are bot-generated. What are your thoughts on these?
 * The first one on the list has numerous good hits with Google: I have crudely updated the article: 2001 YB5. But I agree most of those 8 are probably not very noteworthy. -- Kheider (talk) 20:09, 15 May 2015 (UTC)


 * 2001 SG286 and 2002 DH2 were redirected to List of Apollo asteroids by, for example, which to me is a better alternative to deletion, but that's the only alternative I'm aware of. There are some asteroids which get perturbed and migrate to other named groups, but presumably that would make them notable enough to have that information in the article already (which none have).  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  18:41, 15 May 2015 (UTC)


 * What if, instead of deleting the content and redirecting to the list, the asteroids' content is still kept, but additionally with a redirect. I'm assuming that the main problem with deleting/redirecting these articles is the loss of data on these asteroids, but doing this would remove unnecessary articles from the main part of wikipedia, but still be accessible for later updates by users, and if they achieve notability later, instead of having to revert old edits, one simply has to remove the redirect at the top. exoplanetaryscience (talk) 18:51, 15 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Support WP:REDIRECT says "A redirect is a page that has no content itself but sends the reader to another page", but I like the idea as an occasional exception if others here agree, and R with possibilities can be added to make the intention more clear.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  19:22, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
 * By the way, this is a bit off-topic, but considering you were able to create this list of asteroids, I'm assuming you're using a program to find/make the list. Would it be possible to use a similar program to sort every numbered asteroid into Category:Numbered asteroids? exoplanetaryscience (talk) 19:58, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Absolutely! I'm using AWB's category-recursion, tweaking the settings to process the category's articles fully-autonomously, then taking what I need from the log files to make these lists. Do you want a list of all the numbered asteroids in, say, Category:Minor planets for you to then make a bot request to add that category? I have that handy right now.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  20:56, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, if that works. exoplanetaryscience (talk) 21:27, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
 * In case anyone else is interested: User:Exoplanetaryscience/List of numbered asteroids.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  13:51, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Support Certainly better than just deleting other wise usable content. But a lot of deletionists may not like the extra cut&paste work required. I still think the best idea is that for asteroids that have "wiki-defined" borderline notability, just keep the largest 20-50 asteroids of a certain type as that will still eliminate most of them. -- Kheider (talk) 20:09, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Looking through Asteroid spectral types, very few asteroid-type pages list their largest (or any) members. Is there an "easy" way to find/determine/and then list which are the largest 20-50 asteroids of each type, to then make it easier for someone to use this criteria?  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  21:08, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Support, a reasonable compromise. This way, we follow WP:NASTRO, but if the asteroid becomes notable in the future, it is trivial to remake it into an article. However, I think probably only the largest 10 of each type should be considered notable. StringTheory11 (t • c) 21:00, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Shortlist of minor planet redirect candidates
I made a list page of 376 candidates (for now) at User:Tom.Reding/Shortlist of minor planet redirect candidates, so we're all on the same page (figuratively & literally), and so we're not doing more work than is needed. Now, have at it! ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 07:55, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

If anyone sees some borderline cases, feel free to add them. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 08:05, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Only ~58 "unchecked" candidates remaining! ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 16:10, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

MP #R cleanup
There are some improvements to implement and inconsistencies to iron out in the sea of MP #Rs that and I have been talking about that have built up enough for another run. I'll summarize them here from my talk page for further discussion/FYI: ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 16:09, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) Remove uses of Redr: Only affects a small % of MP #Rs; convert to list of  templates, which are easier to search for, add, and remove than their Redr counterparts.
 * 2) NASTRO comment: Replace the original, hard-coded  comment with the much nicer, much more obvious, much easier to change NASTRO comment, per WP:NASTRO. (applicable to ~98–99% of MP #Rs)
 * 3) Cat-Renaming Asteroid→Minor planet: Not in this run; much broader scope than intended here.
 * 4) Add an empty line after : Per all examples on WP:Redirect, WP:REDCAT, Redr, R to list entry, R to anchor, etc., etc. Not sure why, but it is a standard. (for readability) (unknown % of MP #Rs, but guessing >= 50%)
 * 5) Finer anchors (increment by #10 or by #1?): Incrementing anchors by #100 MPs is a bit too coarse, and is a relic from when 100-entry subpages existed. Now that each page has 1000 entries, anchors incremented by #10 seems like a good compromise between what exists and adding more text to the List of minor planets pages. I'd like to hear what more people think about #1 vs. #10, both in terms of page size increase, and in terms of which is more natural/easy to see/aesthetically pleasing/etc. As for page size increases:
 * 6) #1 anchors (,  ,  , etc.) add: , or 0.86% of the current list-page size of ~675 kB. Also easier/more straight-forward to implement/check/etc. .   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  15:14, 28 June 2016 (UTC) ✅.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  21:55, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
 * 7) #10 anchors (,  ,  , etc.) add: , or 0.07% of the current list-page size of ~675 kB. ❌.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  15:14, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
 * 8) Add #R templates/replace redundant #R templates:
 * 9) R to anchor auto-populates R unprintworthy; ensure the former exists but not the latter, via fix #2.
 * 10) Now would be a good time to add any others. 'Default' templates can be added at any time to NASTRO comment (fix #2).


 * For point 4, it is just a recommended style. From WP:REDCAT, For clarity, all category links should be added at the end of the page, after the redirect statement and rcat(s). Use of blank lines between these promotes readability of the code. --Mark viking (talk) 17:21, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Thx Tom for the introduction/summary:
 * 1) no Redr-templates. Agreed. However, I'll make an alternative proposal below.
 * 2) new NASTRO-comment template: the recently revised template has now a clickable link to WP:NASTRO. Maybe there are some more improvements to make? E.g for those ~2,000 newly created #R, the text passage "before reverting this redirect" does not make a lot of sense.
 * 3) category-rename: this is a big one. There are many categories with an unfortunate naming. E.g "Discoverers of asteroids" and "Discoverers of minor planets" (not used in MP#Rs) both make sense but bite each other: what about an astronomer that discovered both main-belt asteroids and trans-Neptunian objects? What about an astronomer that discovered 327 minor planets; who's going to verify each and every item to make sure that all are asteroids?
 * 4) Anchors in LOMP (list of minor planets). I'm fine with 1-step rather than 10-step anchors. I've come to the conclusion, that my initial 10-er proposal is unpractical for several reasons... I was simply wrong. Maybe there is an elegant way to set staggered anchors in the LOMP-table, so that the referred table row is not at the uppermost edge of the screen... ? As to the empty 2nd line, the Redr template states "please leave this line blank for emphasis and ease of reading by editors", which makes sense to me.

Proposal, yesterday I was thinking about an integrated NASTRO-comment template (see not so serious example in the sandbox). I feel like we should only have one single template for all MP#Rs, with some additional parameters, so future changes would be much simpler. Of course this somehow might complicate an easy search.. but it would make things so much easier, wouldn't it?! R fassbind – talk   17:47, 23 June 2016 (UTC)


 * For #2, I changed NASTRO comment's  to   (it feels so good having templates around).
 * As for an all-inclusive NASTRO/MP#R template, that's an interesting idea worth considering. I'm not familiar enough with template recursion to know what the problems may be. Hopefully others can chime in.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  19:49, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
 * For the NASTRO comment, instead of a hardcoded, we could use a dynamically displayed   (see example for recent MP#R ). As for the proposed all-in-one NASTRO-template, I don't know if it's feasible, either ("recursion"), but since you're an template-editor, I'm confident you'll figure it out soon.   R fassbind  – talk   09:16, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
 * No problems found recursing.
 * An all-in-one template would have the 2 'default' R templates (R to list entry & R to anchor). While first going through the MP#Rs there was an incredible amount of inconsistency, and one of those inconsistencies was a missing anchor. We and others have cleaned that up, but I'm worried (albeit a small worry) that pages including the all-in-one template may omit the anchor (i.e. by an editor not familiar with the template or simply careless) leading to miscategorized pages. This can apply to any of the templates we deem 'default'. In other words, having the individual R templates visible makes it easier to see & check the page, but harder to manage (editing many, many pages instead of just 1). If this isn't a concern for you or anyone else, or the pros outweight the cons, then I'll incorporate it into the run.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  14:56, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't say an incredible amount of inconsistencies, since we both have invested so much time and energy in the last, say 8 months, to considerably improve minor planet redirects (MP#Rs) and related things (categories and #R-target pages). There are indeed some changes we both have made in the process (such as the usage of the unprintworthy, the anchor, and now the NASTRO-comment template). This is exactly why such an all-in-one template (AIO-tpl) would be of great help, since every time we make up our mind for a better solution we wouldn't need to update 20 thousand redirects.


 * However an AIO-tpl should also include about 2000+ avoided double redirects (moved from provisional, title without diacritical marks, incorrect name, alternative spelling) with the corresponding  and an additional name-parameter for the correct name. I think it is not that difficult to create such an AIO-tpl, but we need to agree on that first.   R fassbind  – talk   20:43, 24 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Agree for adding a parameter for the 'avoid double redirect' comment, perhaps yes or yes? This would then replace the usual NASTRO comment with the "don't cat" one (I like the one you made in the sandbox).
 * I don't agree on having another parameter which accepts the correct name, for 2 reasons:
 * The correct name should already exist in the appropriate R template (avoided double redirect, incorrect name, etc.), so including it somewhere else is another, and unnecessary, source of error.
 * I wouldn't want to include those secondary R templates (avoided double redirect, incorrect name, etc.) in the AIO-tpl (which might otherwise be seen as the next appropriate thing to do), since those are in the minority, and doing so doesn't make managing any easier (i.e. each page still needs to be edited/checked individually for either the R template or for the correct R-template-parameter).
 * ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 15:14, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

OK, let's forget about an all-in-one template, that's fine with me. I see you already implemented all missing anchors, well done. If you want me to file a bot-request or adjust the example at WP:DWMP, just let me know. Thx  R fassbind  – talk   12:42, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'm starting this today so no need.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  13:42, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ 21,484 MP #Rs updated, 2924 MP articles skipped.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  15:10, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Template:Partial minor planet designation created
See User talk: Tom.Reding. Adding it here FYI & for posterity under Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomy/Archive table of asteroids 1 (eventually) to elucidate the immense saga. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 16:49, 21 April 2017 (UTC)