Talk:Stars named after people

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We need to choose whether this is List Of Stars... or just Stars.... I vote Stars....

[edit] Scam

I have added a section on commercial "star naming". My original source for the comment on astonomers not revealing the truth was an article I read some years ago, almost certainly in Sky and Telescope magazine. Man with two legs 11:29, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

I can attest (Original research, oh noes!!) that an amateur astronomer well-known by his fellows here in New Mexico told me pretty much the same thing; that star-naming companies maintain their own catalogues, which are not officially recognized. An uncle of mine died young, and his sisters bought a star-name in his honor, and my mom asked this astronomer to find it for her. By the way, star-naming companies are mentioned at two different points in the article. --205.201.141.146 16:08, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Categorisation

This is in Category:stars and Category:Lists of stars. An editor removed Category:stars and I have restored it. Usually an article should not be in a category and one of its sub categories but I think this is a time to bend the rule (as explicitely allowed in Wikipedia:Categorization) because:

1. if you are going to eliminate one, it should be Category:Lists of stars but the subject matter is relevant to people looking up Lists of stars who might not think to look for this article.

2. three categories in total is not a stupidly large number of categories which is the rationale behind the usual rule.

3. the purpose of categorisation according to Wikipedia:Categorization is to "help users find information, even if they don't know that it exists or what it's called."

I shall now get on with some work. Man with two legs 09:27, 29 May 2007 (UTC)