Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects

This project was originally formed to coordinate editors' efforts on creating articles related to astronomical objects. The project's original members worked together to develop a category hierarchy and a series of templates, including information boxes, that could be used to improve the articles' appearance and navigability. This page itself links to a series of subpages that contain information on the templates used to create astronomical articles and web-related resources that may be useful for article creation. The talk page has become a forum to seek advice and build consensus for future article edits. Moreover, the WikiProject is also used as a bulletin board to announce maintenance-related issues, such as article and category renames and deletions.

If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page. The astronomy-related articles on Wikipedia are always in need of improvement; just indicate how you would like to help, and the project's members will direct you to pages that need work. Also, feel free to add your name to the membership list at the bottom of this page.

A number of other WikiProjects have been created to work on other astronomy and space-related issues. A navigation box on the right leads to the related projects. For more information on WikiProjects in general, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

The Membership List shows all of the Wikipedians who have signed up to participate in this WikiProject. Other people who wish to join may simply add their names to the list. Additionally, they can add the WikiProject Astronomical object userbox to their userpage using {{User ASTRO}}.

• Infoboxes - Most of the articles on individual astronomical objects should have information boxes, or infoboxes. This web page provides information on the various templates used to create the infoboxes.

• Templates - Aside from the infoboxes, a series of other templates are commonly used to create Wikipedia articles on astronomical objects. This page provides additional information on those templates.

• External resources - A few key external web pages contain most of the information that is used by the professional astronomical community for their research. These web pages are also invaluable resources for creating Wikipedia pages and for adding references to existing Wikipedia pages.

• Talk page - The talk page is the main forum for discussion on astronomical object-related topics in Wikipedia. This is a good place to ask questions about the science in articles, to ask for assistance in editing articles, and to receive feedback and build consensus on new proposals (such as renaming articles).

• Rename/Merge/Delete Log - This is a list of the current debates on requests to rename and delete articles; requests to rename, delete, or merge categories; and other maintenance-related activities.

• Worklist - This list contains information on some of the most important articles on astronomical objects within Wikipedia as well as ratings for those pages. This list is a good place to see examples of good Wikipedia articles and to find Wikipedia articles that need to be updated.

Articles for deletion

• 05 Nov 2024 – List of exoplanets detected by radial velocity (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by 21.Andromedae (t · c); see discussion (11 participants; relisted)

Proposed deletions

• 17 Nov 2024 – NGC 5555 (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Викидим (t · c) was redirected to List of NGC objects (5001–6000) (talk · edit · hist)

Categories for discussion

• 14 Nov 2024 – Category:Fictional destroyed planets (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Pokelego999 (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 21 Oct 2024 – 1st planet (talk · edit · hist) →Mercury (planet) was RfDed by Cremastra (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Oct 2024 – 2nd planet (talk · edit · hist) →Venus was RfDed by Cremastra (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Oct 2024 – 4th planet (talk · edit · hist) →Mars was RfDed by Cremastra (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Oct 2024 – 3rd Planet (talk · edit · hist) →Earth was RfDed by Cremastra (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Oct 2024 – Third planet (talk · edit · hist) →Earth was RfDed by Cremastra (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Oct 2024 – 3rd planet (talk · edit · hist) →Earth was RfDed by Cremastra (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Oct 2024 – Planet Three (talk · edit · hist) →Earth was RfDed by Cremastra (t · c); see discussion
• undated – PKS 1402-012 (talk · edit · hist) →Parkes Catalogue of Radio Sources was RfDed

Good article nominees

• 16 Aug 2024 – Fictional planets of the Solar System (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TompaDompa (t · c); start discussion
• 29 Jul 2024 – J1407b (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Nrco0e (t · c); start discussion
• 30 Jun 2024 – Black holes in fiction (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TompaDompa (t · c); see discussion

Featured article reviews

• 24 Nov 2024 – White dwarf (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 15 Nov 2024 – Pollux b (talk · edit · hist) move request to Thestias by 2600:1700:6180:6290:FC79:9352:8F8D:64A (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 15 Nov 2024 – Candidate 1 (talk · edit · hist) move request to Alpha Centauri Ab by 21.Andromedae (t · c) was moved to Alpha Centauri Ab (talk · edit · hist) by Frost (t · c) on 23 Nov 2024; see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 24 Oct 2024 – Electroweak star (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Exotic star by Johnjbarton (t · c); see discussion
• 06 Oct 2024 – Theia (planet) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Giant-impact hypothesis by Hemiauchenia (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Sep 2024 – SDSS J1228+1040 b (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to SDSS J1228+1040 by SevenSpheres (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 27 Jun 2024 – Sirius (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 21.Andromedae (t · c); see discussion
• 12 May 2023 – Fast radio burst (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Rod57 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 28 May 2024 – Draft:Fifth Gas Giant (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Hilst (t · c) was declined by KylieTastic (t · c) on 24 Nov 2024

Categories are a major part of the infrastructure of Wikipedia. They contain lists of related articles and allow users to find articles that are related to each other. Category:Astronomical objects is the main category related to astronomical objects, although most articles should be listed in subcategories. Beginners should use these categories to organize new or existing articles. Advanced editors are encouraged to maintain and edit the category system itself.

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