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– This "AB" format is sometimes used in sources to indicate that these are binary systems, but I don't think it's necessary in Wikipedia article titles.
PHL 5038 was also created with "AB" in the title but I already moved it.
SevenSpheres (
talk) 18:36, 12 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Comment all the proposed and current titles are incorrect. They suffer from English-dash-disease. They should not be using any
endashes (–), instead they should all be using the arithmetic minus sign (−), since they are all named based on celestial coordinates that use
declination and
right ascension. As so, that separator between the two numbers can only be a arithmetic plus (+) or arithmetic minus (–) sign, since the value is either positive or negative. Autocorrecting grammar software is destroying knowledge. --
65.92.244.237 (
talk) 04:06, 13 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Oppose unless the nomination is corrected to use the arithmetic minus sign --
65.92.244.237 (
talk) 04:14, 13 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Withdrawn as the nomination was updated with the correct typographic symbol --
65.92.244.237 (
talk) 21:05, 13 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Done, I think. I'm not really sure why the ordinary ASCII
hyphen-minus isn't used in these titles.
SevenSpheres (
talk) 14:03, 13 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Someone will come along and automove all of them to N-Dashes again, as has happened repeeatedly for anything using hyphen-minus. Unless it really is a hyphen, a more specific character is needed for it not to be moved to endash by some grammarian editor, who doesn't know that minus signs exist in astronomy topic names. --
65.92.244.237 (
talk) 21:05, 13 May 2024 (UTC)reply
support because the "AB" in titles is redundant. We don't have
Alpha Centauri AB, intsead we have
Alpha Centauri. We don't have
Gliese 65 AB, intsead we have
Gliese 65. We don't have
Antares AB, intsead we have Antares. Describing binary astronomical objects is a function of the short description, not the title.
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