Myrrhlin
Joined 17 March 2006
Latest comment: 17 years ago by Serendipodous in topic Re: Solar nebula
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Re: Solar nebula
editThe edit can't be seen in isolation. There are currently six different articles concering stellar and planetary formation
- Planetary formation
- Stellar evolution
- Formation and evolution of the Solar System
- protoplanetary disc
- molecular cloud
- Solar nebula
The shift was an attempt to impose some order on the chaos by eliminating overlap and making "planetary formation" about star systems generally while "Formation and evolution of the Solar System" focused on our own Solar System. This is far from being a fixed state of affairs. We are always open to alternatives, if you can supply one. Serendipodous 17:14, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
- I just submitted a request for "planetary formation" to be moved to "nebular hypothesis". Serendipodous 21:00, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
- Myrrhlin, we need to clear this up as soon as possible. Admins have reverted all of my page shifts, because I didn't officially request that they be moved, which violated copyright for some obscure reason. (I'm having trouble understanding how anything in Wikipedia is copyrightable, but there you are). Because you raised an objection on Solar Nebula's talk page, they're refusing to answer my call to have it moved back until this is resolved. I really want this settled. Understand, this isn't entirely about ego (I say entirely because nothing happens on Wikipedia without there being some ego involved, and I'm not about to place myself above the crowd); I'm trying to make the articles reflect the established facts as I understand them. I could be wrong, of course, but, if you'll glance at my response to your post on Talk:Solar nebula, if I am wrong, I must be missing something fairly fundamental. Please come to Talk:Solar nebula and help us clear this up. Serendipodous 18:23, 18 April 2007 (UTC)