Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Celestial event

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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 04:04, 9 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Celestial event

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Does not seem to have any real possibility of becoming more than a simple definition. Clarityfiend (talk) 05:59, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Astronomy-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 06:31, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 07:05, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete From the article: A celestial event is an astronomical phenomenon of interest that involves one or more celestial objects. From this sentence alone, but also the list of examples, it is too generic to be an encyclopedic topic. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 07:08, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to time-domain astronomy, as per astronomical event. Otherwise delete per WP:NOT#DICDEF. Praemonitus (talk) 19:20, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Time-domain astronomy is not what comes to mind for the term, not even close. Clarityfiend (talk) 10:33, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Well then where would you redirect astronomical event? An event seems time specific to me. See this web site for examples. Praemonitus (talk) 00:47, 4 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  - Comment I think that Transient astronomical event is a good redirect to time-domain. But celestial event and astronomical event are too vague to be specifically relevant to time-domain which has been explicitly defined by authoritative sources. I wouldn't keep either of those two redirects. mikeu ^talk 21:17, 4 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Perhaps then it would make sense to redirect 'celestial event' and 'astronomical event' to Phenomenon#Science? Praemonitus (talk) 00:37, 6 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  - Observation. Every event is time-specific. And that's not what time-domain means anyway. Clarityfiend (talk) 01:28, 6 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  - Comment The Category:Astronomical events is a good example of how vague these terms are. It includes spectacular visual phenomena like a great comet but also Odd radio circle which isn't even time dependent but they are lumped together with winter solstice (but not equinoxes or the summer solstice.) Then there is Category:Lists of astronomical events which is defined as being for lists such as solar eclipse events - which it doesn't contain. How can we pick a target for the redirect if we don't have a specific definition from an authoritative source about what that includes? Creating such redirects is arbitrary and contrary to WP:NOR and/or WP:SYNTH. --mikeu ^talk 02:00, 6 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete A generic term that's too vague to even REACH WP:DICDEF. PianoDan (talk) 17:12, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. As stated above, this is just a definition of a generic term. Aldebarium (talk) 23:14, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete this isn't even a term that has a simple definition that is not subjective. It is mostly used in the title of a news article to promote an eclipse etc. to the public. There are no authoritative sources that define the specific scope of the term. I couldn't even find a dictionary definition. --mikeu ^talk 21:04, 4 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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