Talk:Eris
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[edit] Move me!
As for all other astronomical objects named after ancient mythological deities, IMHO the article 'Eris' should go straight to the dwarf planet article, with disambiguation links for the deity et. al. at the top of the page. Does anyone agree? Arrenlex 15:32, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
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- Not in the least. Go look at Mercury to see what happens when there's more than one salient referent. The mythological Eris is still the primary referent, and likely to remain so for the indefinite future, unless something really stunning (like an alien city) is found on the astronomical Eris. Being an astronomical body is not an instant passport to prime status. (See what happens when you click on Ceres). The dab page is a good compromise. The folks who use Eris (mythology) have had a hard enough time reconciling to not having prime status already. RandomCritic 22:06, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
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- No. The mythological Eris, if anything, should get the main link. zachol 22:35, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Nfitz's edits
Nfitz - I appreciate your concerns with regards to the entry for 136199 Eris. However, your changes are contrary to established WP conventions for disambiguation pages. (Believe me, I know - I've had several entries of my own revised because of this.) Disambig links are required to be unpiped (i.e. not Eris) and are to go directly to the article in question - not through a redirect (as with Eris (dwarf planet)). If the page is moved, then by all means the correct thing to do is to adjust this page. Until then, however, it should stay as is. (If we don't do it correctly, someone else will - possibly even one of the formatting 'bots.) --Ckatzchatspy 22:13, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Prominence of diety vs. dwarf planet
I notice that there is a developing dispute over whether the deity or the dwarf planet is more deserving of first billing in this article. It seems to be that a case can be made either way. IMO, since the deity had the name first, that is what desrves the first billing until it can be conclusively established that are much more likely to come to this page looking for the dwarf planet then looking for the deity.
If nothing else, this kind of dispute is appropriate for the goddess of contentiousness. :-) --EMS | Talk 21:06, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
- It's persecution, I say! Nothing but propagandic lies!!!
- But yeah, I'm of the opinion that the Goddess is more notable. Most people would think of the Goddess when asked about Eris as well, I would assume; especially with many of the pop culture references to Her. Voretustalk 15:23, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
- I wouldn't. Eris should go to the dwarf planet, just as Pluto and the planets have. We had this argument at the beginning of last year when somebody decided to move the planet names to link directly to the gods instead of the planets. At the very least, objects within our solar system should get main names. --Kitch (Talk : Contrib) 11:47, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
