Talk:C/2021 O3 (PanSTARRS)

Requested move

All comets have the discoverer's name or the telescope's name at the end in parentheses. I propose moving this page to C/2021 O3 (PANSTARRS).🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 19:11, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Requested move 17 August 2021

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

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C/2021 O3 → C/2021 O3 (PANSTARRS) – All comets have the discoverer's name or the telescope's name at the end in parentheses. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 23:23, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

• Really, they don't, a mix, see List of Pan-STARRS discoveries. Tom Ruen (talk) 00:48, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
• Comment: If done, it should use "Pan-STARRS", not "PANSTARRS", per MOS:ALLCAPS. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 19:32, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

I disagree. Other comets, like C/2015 ER61 (PANSTARRS) are like that.🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 19:25, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

The other ones that contain the all-caps telescope name can be renamed (either to remove the telescope name or to format the name the same way it is formatted in the title of the article about the telescope itself). —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 20:44, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

FYI, I have opened a multi-article RM at Talk:C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS). —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 21:00, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

• support per WP:COMETNAMES, as C/2021 O3 (PANSTARRS) (MPC · JPL) is the official designation, see Recent Comet Names & Numbering published by IAU's Working Group on Small Body Nomenclature. To me, this is not controversial. Not in the slightest.

• @User:Kepler-1229b, not all comets are named. So most do not have a parenthesis with the discoverer's name at the end. Moreover, see numbered comets, which are also w/o parenthesis.
• @Tom, if you create a #Redir rather than moving the article to its (newly) named cometary designation, it may only complicate things (move over redirect, requires a WP:RM#TR). Could you also take a look at {{NASTRO comment}} for comets?
• @User:BarrelProof your requested move of several articles is full of bad ideas and premature. I understand that you don't like "PANSTARRS", and you would rather prefer "Pan-STARRS", but this would undermine cometary nomenclature which uses hyphens to concatenate more than one discoverer, so 351P/Wiegert-PANSTARRS would become 351P/Wiegert-Pan-STARRS (who is Mr. "Pan"?, have you ever heard of the "STARRS" team of astronomers?). For 311P/PANSTARRS, you even propose to drop the name entirely, just keeping "311P" as the title of the article. This seems to me as absurd as to rename Pluto to (134340).

In addition, IAU's Naming of Comets, and Comet-naming guidelines and the list of Numbered Comets by the Minor Planet Center are worth reading. Rfassbind – talk 03:34, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

@Rfassbind: Co-discovers should properly use en dashes, not hyphens, as with the Epstein–Barr virus and the Black–Scholes model. Wikipedia convention has a strong tendency to avoid all-caps styling, and does not necessarily follow "official" or specialist literature on matters of styling (e.g., the naming convention for fauna uses lowercase, while specialist literature for birds, butterflies and some other topics tends toward title case. None of the guidelines that you cited are Wikipedia guidelines. The Pluto remark seems completely off-topic – Wikipedia uses ʻOumuamua, not 1I/2017 U1 plus or minus Pan-STARRS/PANSTARRS. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 15:34, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Guideline was given above Apologies, I should have linked WP:COMETNAMES. Maybe @Exoplanetaryscience:, @Nrco0e:, @Renerpho:, @Kheider: can be of better assistance than me. Best regards, Rfassbind – talk 17:04, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for that pointer. That supports my view about dashes (153P/Ikeya–Zhang and Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, not 153P/Ikeya-Zhang and Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9). There is no article called 351P/Wiegert-PANSTARRS, and there are no articles that link to that name either, and the distinction between a dash and a hyphen can help with parsing. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 20:55, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Comets are named after their discoverer(s) and therfore the longer form would be more accurate. -- Kheider (talk) 07:46, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

• support move to C/2021 O3 (Pan-STARRS) per BarrelProof. The current name is contra WP:COMETNAMES, but the proposed new name is contra MOS:ALLCAPS. Nothing at WP:COMETNAMES (or at the IAU code, which the policy adopts) suggests that telescope's name should be written in allcaps. Some names contain hyphens, and nothing at WP:COMETNAMES or the IAU code suggests that such hyphens should be omitted from the comet name. This is no different from any other situation where a result due to an individual with a hyphenated name could possibly be misread as being due to a collaboration. It matters not that the RSs use a different style: Wikipedia follows its own style for the purpose of site-wide consistency. The proposed name may be consistent with names of some other articles on comets, but it is inconsistent with the community wide consensus on capitalisation. Havelock Jones (talk) 12:16, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Amend to move to C/2021 O3 (PanSTARRS) per comments below and at Talk:C/2016_R2_(PANSTARRS)#Requested_move_22_August_2021. Havelock Jones (talk) 23:22, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

• Move to C/2021 O3 (PanSTARRS) with no hyphen, per my rationale at Talk:C/2016_R2_(PANSTARRS)#Requested_move_22_August_2021.  — Amakuru (talk) 15:21, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
• Move to C/2021 O3 (PanSTARRS), as per the above, and my own comments at Talk:C/2016_R2_(PANSTARRS)#Requested_move_22_August_2021. Renerpho (talk) 06:14, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

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