Talk:Meanings of minor-planet names
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Auto-grey redirects via Lua?
[edit]@Rfassbind: I saw this and thought I could write a small helper template, like {{Meanings of minor planet names/Grey}}, that will check the page for a redirect and return the necessary table wikitext to grey it out, and otherwise return normal table wikitext. What do you think? ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 11:55, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
- Hi @Tom.Reding:. Sure, go for it! Rfassbind – talk 12:53, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
- Also consider to reuse some of your new code for the templates
{{TOC001}}
and{{Meanings of minor planet names}}
, where automatic #R-detection and greying-out links could be applied as well, I think. Rfassbind – talk 13:08, 6 November 2019 (UTC)- Yes, between the helper template & {{LinkCatIfExists2}}, I believe I can cover all cases. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 13:53, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
- Totally forgot about this, but finally got around to it, via {{MoMP index element}}... ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 22:01, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
- Yes, between the helper template & {{LinkCatIfExists2}}, I believe I can cover all cases. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 13:53, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
External links in lists
[edit]Hi, would it be possible to turn all the references on the subpages (the lists) to proper references with <ref></ref>. I find it confusing that these pages have a different system and use other symbols. Including other information about the url such as name and archive url also helps the verifiability long term. See also Wikipedia:Bare URLs. Dajasj (talk) 05:56, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
- I agree. These should be turned into proper citations. Rublamb (talk) 14:42, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
Rating partial MoMP lists & redirects
[edit]I think having the partial lists classified as |class=list
from inception is the best option (as opposed to |class=redirect
or |class=<blank>
), whether or not they are currently a redirect, or have already been turned into a proper list. 2 reasons for this:
- the category output of {{WikiProject banner shell}} is the same for both #Rs and for proper lists (easily tested on non-#R & currently-#R examples) due to its redirect-detection
- using
|class=redirect
or|class=<blank>
places the page into 4 unassessed WikiProject categories (list, ast, astro, & ss) once the page becomes a proper list, which adds more work to be done after a page is converted from a redirect, and into Category:Pages using WikiProject banner shell without a project-independent quality rating if|class=redirect
is used
One of the goals, I think, is to minimize the steps necessary to bring a page out of dormancy as a redirect to a proper list, which |class=list
does, with no real downside.
Ping to Praemonitus who has done some recent rating here. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 14:30, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, a redirect will automatically override the class setting, so there's no harm in setting it to 'list'. However, the way WP:AST importance ratings are assigned, a redirect has a 'na' importance while a 'list' will have a normal low/med/high/top importance. Praemonitus (talk) 05:00, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Praemonitus: I think it's ok if the temporary #Rs are misclassified as lists for the time they remain #Rs, even if that time is lengthy, since their intended purpose and eventual destination is to be a list. Otherwise it just seems like a distinction without much of a difference. But, if you want to keep track of that, go for it. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 17:24, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
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