Talk:Stars and planetary systems in fiction

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[edit] Alphabetised the list

I found it inconvenient that you had to look two places to see if a star had details, so I merged them. Improved the description as well. --GwydionM 15:53, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Recent changes

I made the following changes to the list:

  1. Standardized entries so that they all begin with title, date (where available), genre, by author (or company), followed by the description.
  2. This list should only contain references to the actual stars, so I moved references to people, places, or things that only shared the name of a star to the list Star names in popular culture.
  3. Deleted some links that led to promotional or advertising material.
  4. Removed references that are not fiction-related, e.g., to references to stars in UFOlogy.
  5. Removed references that had no source other than "some fans say...".
  6. Added the material from the "Procyon in fiction" article, because it was short enough to fit on this list and too short to justify its existence as an independent article.

RandomCritic 23:14, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

  1. Further added material from "Arcturus in fiction", which was even shorter than "Procyon in fiction". RandomCritic 21:28, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion

I removed this addition, for a couple of reasons:

  • AdventureQuest (2005-200_) online computer role-playing game by Artix Entertainment. There have been many instances to to Zeta Reticuli in the first year of the Destroyer Saga. These were leaked during the Into The Future war, where Adventurers and Guardians fought Makkisar, who created mutated clones of our largest foe to date, Carnax, at a whopping 275 million HP
  1. Because I don't know what it means (though it seems to contain a lot of extraneous information).
  2. Because it's unverified: Zeta Reticuli isn't mentioned anywhere in the AdventureQuest article, nor in connection with AdventureQuest elsewhere on the web.

Until this information becomes verifiable, it doesn't belong in this list. RandomCritic 14:16, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TOC

Would {{tocright}} be less intrusive than {{tocleft}}? - ∅ (∅), 10:44, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Let's see! RandomCritic 15:14, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Galilean Satellites

There's a band named Rosetta. Their first album is The Galilean Satellites. The main theme in their lyrics is Europa, the Jupiter Moon, and several songs are named after stars and moons eg: Ross 128, Deneb, Beta Aquilae, etc. Thought it might enrich the article a tiny bit. Here's the link [[1]]

--I1100a 21:00, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The star in _The Arrival_

I think the aliens' home star in The Arrival in Wolf 336, not 424. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.30.202.20 (talk) 01:00, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, that's right. Only problem is, Wolf 336 doesn't actually exist -- so it doesn't belong in this list at all. RandomCritic (talk) 02:43, 29 November 2007 (UTC)