Talk:Andromeda in Chinese astronomy

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What is going on here? Surely the Chinese didn't traditionally call these stars "Andromeda"? So why is it the title of the article? Arsia Mons (talk) 02:34, 11 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

The purpose of the "traditional Chinese star name" articles is to place an index of Chinese star names into modern constellations, so the articles are titled under their Western names. Put another way, let's say you wanted to know what ancient Chinese astronomers called the star Alpheratz (α And), this article will tell you its Chinese name(s) and the Chinese constellation (or asterism) it belongs to. From what I can tell, one user created all of these Chinese astronomy-related articles (a huge effort), and English is not his or her first language, so the titles are just a little "off." It probably wouldn't hurt to rename them, but I don't think this is a "factual error" problem in the sense of saying that the ancient Chinese had a constellation named Andromeda. BW95 (talk) 02:12, 20 June 2011 (UTC)Reply
OK, I renamed the article and removed the "Disputed" template. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BW95 (talkcontribs) 06:56, 20 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

Requested move 6 January 2017

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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. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Clear consensus to move, this is going to take a while... (non-admin closure) Laurdecl talk 23:49, 13 January 2017 (UTC)Reply


– As the move history (and discussion on at least one talk page) indicates, the naming of these constellation articles is problematic. However, I would suggest that "NAME in Chinese astronomy" (apparently rejected in the past) better captures the purpose of the articles, namely, to list traditional Chinese star/asterism names that correspond to the modern IAU constellations. Per WP:TITLE/WP:ATDAB, parentheses in article titles are for "adding a disambiguating term". That is not what is happening here; "Andromeda" (for example) is not a concept in Chinese astronomy that needs disambiguating, it is a concept in astronomy that has an article relating it to Chinese astronomy.

I have listed this as a potentially controversial move, because quite apart from the evident history of disagreement over naming, renaming 80 articles has the potential to be disruptive even though none of the articles is particularly prominent. As the list above shows, six of these articles have already existed and been moved (or at least, redirects exist) to the "NAME (Chinese astronomy)" forms, so I would also need technical assistance in completing this move even were it uncontroversial.

It is also worth noting (at least for my own reference, or the reference of anyone who wants to complete the set once a naming convention is agreed) that there are eight IAU constellations that don't appear to have Chinese-astronomy articles: Antlia, Caelum, Circinus, Horologium (constellation), Mensa (constellation), Norma (constellation), Pictor, and Vulpecula.

-- Perey (talk) 11:58, 6 January 2017 (UTC)Reply


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