Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects

Introduction

This project was originally formed to coordinate editors' efforts on creating articles related to astronomical objects. The project's original members worked together to develop a category hierarchy and a series of templates, including information boxes, that could be used to improve the articles' appearance and navigability. This page itself links to a series of subpages that contain information on the templates used to create astronomical articles and web-related resources that may be useful for article creation. The talk page has become a forum to seek advice and build consensus for future article edits. Moreover, the WikiProject is also used as a bulletin board to announce maintenance-related issues, such as article and category renames and deletions.

If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page. The astronomy-related articles on Wikipedia are always in need of improvement; just indicate how you would like to help, and the project's members will direct you to pages that need work. Also, feel free to add your name to the membership list at the bottom of this page.

A number of other WikiProjects have been created to work on other astronomy and space-related issues. A navigation box on the right leads to the related projects. For more information on WikiProjects in general, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

Membership

The Membership List shows all of the Wikipedians who have signed up to participate in this WikiProject. Other people who wish to join may simply add their names to the list. Additionally, they can add the WikiProject Astronomical object userbox to their userpage using {{User ASTRO}}.

This user is a member of WikiProject Astronomical objects.

Resource pages

• Infoboxes - Most of the articles on individual astronomical objects should have information boxes, or infoboxes. This web page provides information on the various templates used to create the infoboxes.

• Templates - Aside from the infoboxes, a series of other templates are commonly used to create Wikipedia articles on astronomical objects. This page provides additional information on those templates.

• External resources - A few key external web pages contain most of the information that is used by the professional astronomical community for their research. These web pages are also invaluable resources for creating Wikipedia pages and for adding references to existing Wikipedia pages.

Discussion/Noticeboard pages

• Talk page - The talk page is the main forum for discussion on astronomical object-related topics in Wikipedia. This is a good place to ask questions about the science in articles, to ask for assistance in editing articles, and to receive feedback and build consensus on new proposals (such as renaming articles).

• Rename/Merge/Delete Log - This is a list of the current debates on requests to rename and delete articles; requests to rename, delete, or merge categories; and other maintenance-related activities.

• Worklist - This list contains information on some of the most important articles on astronomical objects within Wikipedia as well as ratings for those pages. This list is a good place to see examples of good Wikipedia articles and to find Wikipedia articles that need to be updated.

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 13 Oct 2026 – TOI-6034 b (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Shocksingularity (t · c) was closed as merge by BhikhariInformer (t · c) on 22 Oct 2026; see discussion (5 participants)
• 13 Oct 2026 – NGC 7301 (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Shocksingularity (t · c) was closed as merge by BhikhariInformer (t · c) on 20 Oct 2026; see discussion (5 participants)
• 13 Oct 2026 – HIP 5158 b (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Shocksingularity (t · c) was closed as merge by BhikhariInformer (t · c) on 20 Oct 2026; see discussion (6 participants)
• 13 Oct 2026 – NGC 6248 (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Shocksingularity (t · c) was closed as redirect by OwenX (t · c) on 22 Oct 2026; see discussion (4 participants)
• 11 Oct 2026 – GRB 211211A (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Abdullah1099 (t · c) was closed as delete by Arbitrarily0 (t · c) on 19 Oct 2026; see discussion (6 participants)
• 20 Sep 2026 – G0.238-0.071 (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by TariosGD1618 (t · c) was closed as no consensus by OwenX (t · c) on 22 Oct 2026; see discussion (15 participants; relisted)

Categories for discussion

• 05 Oct 2026 – Category:Polars (cataclysmic variable stars) (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Shocksingularity (t · c); see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 23 Oct 2026 – X-1 X-ray source (talk · edit · hist) →Scorpius X-1 was RfDed by Shocksingularity (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Oct 2026 – Hemelein Secunda (talk · edit · hist) →Sigma Boötis was RfDed by SevenSpheres (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Oct 2026 – Hemelein Prima (talk · edit · hist) →Rho Boötis was RfDed by SevenSpheres (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 06 Sep 2026 – High-mass X-ray binary (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Shocksingularity (t · c); see discussion
• 11 Aug 2026 – 44 Nysa (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Nrco0e (t · c); start discussion

Featured article reviews

• 11 Aug 2026 – Moon (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 11 Nov 2025 – Quaoar (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Nrco0e (t · c); see discussion
• 12 May 2023 – Fast radio burst (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Rod57 (t · c); see discussion

Article ratings

Astronomical objects pages by quality
Quality
	Total
FA	69
FL	4
FM	73
GA	143
B	174
C	1,241
Start	9,855
Stub	4,579
List	1,831
Category	1,600
Disambig	27
File	25
Portal	9
Project	18
Redirect	47,409
Template	217
Assessed	67,274
Total	67,274
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 82,521			Ω = 5.14

Categories

Categories are a major part of the infrastructure of Wikipedia. They contain lists of related articles and allow users to find articles that are related to each other. Category:Astronomical objects is the main category related to astronomical objects, although most articles should be listed in subcategories. Beginners should use these categories to organize new or existing articles. Advanced editors are encouraged to maintain and edit the category system itself.

Other useful pages

• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (astronomical objects)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Constellations/Bordering constellations
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects/Popular pages - List of top articles with the most frequent views, updated monthly.
• Quality operations - A bot-generated daily log which lists articles Reassessed, Assessed and Removed.