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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
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There is nothing wrong with adding one or more useful content-relevant links to the external links section of an article; however, excessive lists can dwarf articles and detract from the purpose of Knowledge (XXG). On articles about topics with many fansites, for example, including a link to one
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In the first two cases you need only modify the last argument of the address to the name or number of the minor planet. The lists of discovery circumstances are split into groups of 5000 minor planets, each containing links for individual named minor planets that access the script displaying
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Some things just grow by incremental edits and get out of hand. The "External links" section, one of the optional appendices, has grown to 17 entries. Three seems to be an acceptable number and of course, everyone has their favorite to try to add for a forth. While not the most egregious the
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contain further research that is accurate and on-topic, information that could not be added to the article for reasons such as copyright or amount of detail, or other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article for reasons unrelated to its
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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.
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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
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Links in the "External links" section should be kept to a minimum. A lack of external links or a small number of external links is not a reason to add external links.
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which link to a script at the Harvard University Center for Astronomy MPES (Minor Planet Ephemeris Service) that displays citations.
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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
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The below content, with references, can likely be used in the article but not as a reference in the "External links" section
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or other citation templates in the External links section. Citation templates are permitted in the Further reading section.
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Asteroids named after members of staff and graduates of the Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland
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on the subpages (the lists) to proper references with <ref: -->
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The Minor Planet Center has lists of discovery circumstances for
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is the same for both #Rs and for proper lists (easily tested on
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Also consider to reuse some of your new code for the templates
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Totally forgot about this, but finally got around to it, via
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I moved the deleted links here for any possible discussion.
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Institute of Applied Astronomy's list of (accented) names
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The problem is that none is needed for article promotion.
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and thought I could write a small helper template, like
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I agree. These should be turned into proper citations.
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The Ceres Connection (asteroids named after students)
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unless and until there is a consensus to include them
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allowing a search of its database from your browser.
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