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| | '''Naming pages properly''' is important, because naming them improperly makes it difficult to find pages, and also to create other pages which may have similar meanings. This page will talk some about why this is important, and also give some conventions for good naming. Enjoy. |
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| ! colspan=2 style="text-align:center; background-color: black; color:white; font-weight:bold;" | Astrographical Information
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| | style="background-color: black; color:white;"|<span style="padding-left: 3px;">Region</span>
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| | style="font-size:90%;color:white;background:black;" align="left" class="whitelinks"| {{{region}}}
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| | style="background-color: black; color:white;"|<span style="padding-left: 3px;">Sector</span>
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| | style="font-size:90%;color:white;background:black;" align="left" class="whitelinks"| {{{sector}}}
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| | style="background-color: black; color:white;"|<span style="padding-left: 3px;">System</span>
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| | style="font-size:90%;color:white;background:black;" align="left" class="whitelinks"| {{{system}}}
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| | style="background-color: black; color:white;"|<span style="padding-left: 3px;">Sun(s)</span>
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| | style="font-size:90%;color:white;background:black;" align="left" class="whitelinks"| {{{suns}}}
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| | style="background-color: black; color:white;"|<span style="padding-left: 3px;">Moon(s)</span>
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| | style="font-size:90%;color:white;background:black;" align="left" class="whitelinks"| {{{moons}}}
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| | {{#if: {{{radius|}}} | style="background-color: black; color:white;"| style="display: none;"}}|<p style="padding-left: 3px;">Orbital Radius</p>
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| | {{#if: {{{radius|}}} | style="font-size:90%;color:white;background:black;" align="left" class="whitelinks"|style="display: none;"}}| {{{radius}}} AU
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| | {{#if: {{{eccentricity|}}} | style="background-color: black; color:white;"| style="display: none;"}}|<p style="padding-left: 3px;">Eccentricity</p>
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| | {{#if: {{{eccentricity|}}} | style="font-size:90%;color:white;background:black;" align="left" class="whitelinks"|style="display: none;"}}| {{{eccentricity}}} AU
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| | {{#if: {{{eccentricity|}}} | style="background-color: black; color:white;"| style="display: none;"}}|<p style="padding-left: 3px;">Periapsis</p>
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| | {{#if: {{{eccentricity|}}} | style="font-size:90%;color:white;background:black;" align="left" class="whitelinks"|style="display: none;"}}| {{#expr: (1 - {{{eccentricity}}}) * {{{radius}}}}} AU
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| | {{#if: {{{eccentricity|}}} | style="background-color: black; color:white;"| style="display: none;"}}|<p style="padding-left: 3px;">Apoapsis</p>
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| | {{#if: {{{eccentricity|}}} | style="font-size:90%;color:white;background:black;" align="left" class="whitelinks"|style="display: none;"}}| {{#expr: (1 + {{{eccentricity}}}) * {{{radius}}}}} AU
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| | {{#if: {{{inclination|}}} | style="background-color: black; color:white;"| style="display: none;"}}|<p style="padding-left: 3px;">Inclination</p>
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| | {{#if: {{{inclination|}}} | style="font-size:90%;color:white;background:black;" align="left" class="whitelinks"|style="display: none;"}}| {{{inclination}}}
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| | {{#if: {{{inclination|}}} | style="background-color: black; color:white;"| style="display: none;"}}|<p style="padding-left: 3px;">Orbital Motion</p>
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| | {{#if: {{{inclination|}}} | style="font-size:90%;color:white;background:black;" align="left" class="whitelinks"|style="display: none;"}}| {{{inclination}}}
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| | style="background-color: black; color:white;" class="whitelinks"|<span style="padding-left: 3px;">[[Planetary Classification|Class]] </span>
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| | style="font-size:90%;color:white;background:black;" align="left" class="whitelinks"| {{{class}}}
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| ! colspan=2 style="text-align:center; background-color: black; color:white; font-weight:bold;" | Physical Parameters
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| | {{#if: {{{diameter|}}} |style="background-color: black; color:white;"| style="display: none;"}}| Diameter
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| | {{#if: {{{diameter|}}} | style="font-size:90%;color:white;background:black;" align="left" class="whitelinks"|style="display: none;"}}| {{{diameter}}}
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| | {{#if: {{{atmosphere|}}} |style="background-color: black; color:white;"| style="display: none;"}}| <p style="padding-left: 3px;">Atmospheric Contents</p>
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| | {{#if: {{{atmosphere|}}} | style="font-size:90%;color:white;background:black;" align="left" class="whitelinks"|style="display: none;"}}| {{{atmosphere}}}
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| | {{#if: {{{atmmass|}}} |style="background-color: black; color:white;"| style="display: none;"}}| <p style="padding-left: 3px;">Atmospheric Mass</p>
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| | {{#if: {{{atmmass|}}} | style="font-size:90%;color:white;background:black;" align="left" class="whitelinks"|style="display: none;"}}| {{{atmmass}}}
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| | {{#if: {{{atmpress|}}} |style="background-color: black; color:white;"| style="display: none;"}}| <p style="padding-left: 3px;">Avg Atmospheric Pressure</p>
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| | {{#if: {{{atmpress|}}} | style="font-size:90%;color:white;background:black;" align="left" class="whitelinks"|style="display: none;"}}|<p style="padding-left: 3px;">{{{atmpress}}} standard, ({{#iferror:{{#expr:{{{atmpress}}}*1013.25}}}} hPa)
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| | {{{blackbody}}}°K ({{#iferror:{{#expr: {{{blackbody|}}}-272.15}}}}°C)
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| | Gravity
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| | Points of interest
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| | Length of Day
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| | Length of Year
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| | Native species
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| ! colspan=2 style="text-align:left; font-weight:normal; background:#cccccc;" | Societal
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| | [[Planetary Development Scale|Technological Classification]]
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| | Major cities
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| | Imports
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| | {{{exports}}}
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| | Affiliation
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| | Government
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| | {{{government}}}
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| <noinclude>This template is meant to display all information on a planet. It leaves certain arguments out since we aren't interested in precise navigational details (that's why ships have a navcomp), but has certain advanced astrophysical arguments. To help the person using this template, we have a guide of what each argument is, below:
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| ===Orbital Arguments=== | | ==Unique Names== |
| First off, we examine the primary arguments. These are ''orbital radius'' (often referred to as the semi-major axis), ''eccentricity'' and ''inclination'' (there are several others, such as true anomaly, mean anomaly, longitude of ascending node, argument of perihelion, but these are a bit more advanced and not included in the template for various reasons.)
| | Imagine each page's name is its own telephone number (with area code and country code, of course, because we're an international community!). If your phone number is 1 (555) 555-1212, no one else can have that phone number, right? Because if they did, you'd be sharing a phone line, which is never good for conversation. |
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| To calclulate these you will want the star's mass and luminosity. I'll try to give average suggestions, as well.
| | So too, here on the Wiki, each page's name is its own unique identifier. Your first priority in naming is always to keep this in consideration. |
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| The first one, is ''orbital radius'' (the parameter radius in the template), which is the average radius of the planet. It is also called the semi-major axis, due to the fact that planets orbit according to [http://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Kepler's_laws_of_planetary_motion Kepler's Three Laws Of Planetary Motion]
| | * Right: '''Enterprise shuttlebay''' |
| | * Wrong: Shuttlebay |
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| 1. The orbit of a planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two foci.
| | ==Specificity== |
| 2. A line segment joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas during equal intervals of time.
| | Let's use an example here, with my character name: Tristan Wolf. I can be known by any number of variations of this, right? Perhaps "Tristan," or "Wolf," or maybe even by parts of my rank: "Fleet Admiral," or "Admiral." If you're feeling brave, maybe even "Fleet Admiral Tristan Scott Wolf." |
| 3. The square of the orbital period of a planet is proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit.
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| For an explanation of this, I strongly recommend you read the Wikipedia article linked behind. What this means for us is that it provides some bounds on the figures we can give.
| | Now, our goal in naming a page is first, as we said above, to make it unique. But we also need to make it easy to find the page. Sure, search would probably pull up my page as long as you had one of the variations above in it, but search is inconvenient and sometimes annoying because other responses may come up. So we need to decide what is the best variation to use for simplicity and efficiency. |
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| For an orbital radius, it should be '''no less than .1 * the mass of the star, and no more than 40 * the mass of the star'''. This provides values in Astronomical Units (roughly 150 million km, or 92.95 million mi per AU)
| | We need to be careful, however, not to be too specific. While ''my'' rank, for example, will not be changing because I can't be promoted any higher, just about everyone else in the club is pretty much guaranteed a promotion at some time in the future. So, we probably don't want to include the "Fleet Admiral" part of the name because we want conformity with others, and others don't want to use their rank because that would mean the page name would have to change in the future, which is always bad. |
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| If you have a habitable planet, it is probably best to be placed '''between .95 * square root of the star's luminosity, and 1.37 * square root of the star's luminosity in AU.'''
| | This leaves "Tristan Scott Wolf," as my character name. We probably don't need to use the "Scott" part, because most people don't know that's my character's middle name. So we're down to "Tristan Wolf." But do we do it forward, or backward? |
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| A gas giant should be placed at a little more than '''4.85 times the square root of the sun's luminosity''' unless it is a hot jupiter, which should be very close to the inner radius. (Eccentric gas giants may be more random, however.)
| | As such, the general guideline is: |
| | * Generally, you would title it First Name Last Name like '''Tristan Wolf''' |
| | * If say, your character is a Bajoran, such as Kira Neyrs, even though Kira is the last name, you would title it ''Kira Neyrs''. The same goes for any culture where last name first name is written. (Such as '''Ishikawa Keiko''') |
| | * For characters that have more specificity about them, you would add it in parenthesis |
| | ** Mirror universe characters get '''(mirror)''' |
| | ** Alternate universe characters get '''(alternate)''' |
| | ** Clones get '''(clone x)''', where x is the number. Try to resist putting descriptors there - for example, if you have Tristan Wolf (good clone), and the clone becomes evil, that name may become confusing! |
| | ** Double characters (such as Bynar) should get something like '''11001010 (01010111)''' to indicate they are a double character. |
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| Terrestial planets will generally not form beyond the frost line (and by generally not, I mean they really *won't*. Looking through exoplanet catalogues, there doesn't appear to be any found.) As such, if you don't care if it's habitable or not, place it randomly between the inner radius and the frost line.
| | ==Lowercase second and subsequent words== |
| | Do not capitalize second and subsequent words unless the title is a proper noun (such as a name) or is otherwise almost always capitalized. |
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| Small icy planets should however, be placed beyond the frost line, as they will not form before (too warm) unless they have migrated inwards. (There are some "super earth" ice planets that may form out here too.)
| | * Right: '''John Wayne''' |
| | * Right: '''Computer game''' |
| | * Wrong: Computer Game |
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| The second orbital parameter is ''eccentricity''. This one's simple. It measures how elliptical an orbit is, with values from 0 to 1. No planet orbits at 0 eccentricity - all orbits are an ellipse. But by the same token, an orbit at 1 or more is no orbit. 1 is a parabolic orbit, and over 1 is a hyperbolic orbit.
| | Due to technical limitations inherent to the MediaWiki software, the first letter in an article title always needs to be a capital letter. Ordinarily this isn't a problem, but it poses an issue when a proper noun's first letter is lowercase (for example, eBay). |
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| | ==Prefer singular nouns== |
| | In general only create page titles that are in the singular, unless that noun is always in a plural form in English. |
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| Generally speaking, anything near habitable planets (or /potentially near habitable planets) should have a capped eccentricity of .2 period. Gas giants will have lower values, and any hot Jupiter or close in planet to the sun will have very circularized orbits (somewhere between .00X and .0X eccentricity.) Habitable planets should have .0X to .1 maximum eccentricity.
| | * Right: '''Scissors''' |
| | * Right: '''Trousers''' |
| | * Right: '''Enterprise shuttlebay''' |
| | * Right: '''Phaser''' |
| | * Wrong: Enterprise shuttlebays |
| | * Wrong: Phasers |
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| The final one is ''inclination''. This measures the orbit's difference from the system ecliptic, or the equator of the Sun.
| | ==Redirect adjectives to nouns== |
| A quick primer on orbital inclination follows:
| | Adjectives (such as democratic) should [[redirect]] to nouns (in this case, democracy). |
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| It is only between 0 and 180 degrees. 0 and 180 degrees are equatorial orbits. 90 degrees is a polar orbit. Anything over 90 degrees is a retrograde orbit. Anything below 90 degrees is a prograde orbit.
| | ==Use gerund of verbs== |
| | Use the gerund of verbs (the -ing form in English) unless there is a more common form for a certain verb. |
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| Generally, these are low values (most gas giants are less than 1 degree off), but it can be up to 10 degrees, if it orbits in the same direction of the sun's revolution (prograde) or between 170 and 180 degrees, if it orbits opposite the sun's revolution (retrograde)
| | For example, an article on '''swimming''' is better than one on '''swim'''. The plain form of the verb can be a redirect to the gerund. '''Existence''' is an example of such a "more common noun form". (More common than "existing," of course.) |
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| (''NB:'' The template will actually display the motion type automatically for you.)
| | ==Use English words== |
| | Name your pages in English and place the native transliteration on the first line of the article unless the native form is more commonly used in English than the English form. |
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| Eccentric gas giants may have 0-30, or 150-180 degrees.
| | ==Use simple titles== |
| | Remember that a link is the title of the page it links to. Titles should be as simple as possible without being too general. For example, the page about jazz should simply be called "Jazz", not "Jazz music", because "jazz" does not refer to anything other than music, and the simpler title makes linking easier. Adding the word "music" is redundant. On the other hand, country music should be on a page called Country music because the word "country" has other referents besides the musical genre. If we ignore potential ambiguity, the ideal of simplicity can be at odds with the ideal of precision. |
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| Now, with eccentricity, and radius, we can calculate periapsis (closest approach) and apoapsis (furthest approach). As long as you provide only numbers for both, the template will do the work for you (however, if you wish to do it at 'home', here are your formulas.:
| | ==Use common names of persons and things== |
| | Use the most common name of a person or thing that does not conflict with the names of other people or things. |
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| * Periapsis: (1 - eccentricity) * orbital radius | | Here are some examples: |
| * Apoapsis: (1 + eccentricity) * orbital radius. | | * George W. Bush (not "George Walker Bush") |
| | * Bill Clinton (not "William Jefferson Clinton") |
| | * Jimmy Carter (not "James Earl Carter, Jr.") |
| | * Occam's Razor (not "Ockam's Razor") |
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| [[Category:Infobox templates|{{PAGENAME}}]]
| | Middle names should be avoided unless they are the most common form of a name (as in, say, "John Wilkes Booth"). |
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| | Initials in names should each be followed by a period and a space; for example: "H. G. Wells". |
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| | ===Don't overdo it=== |
| | In cases where the common name of a subject is misleading (For example: "tidal wave" would be a misleading title since these phenomena have nothing to do with tides), then it is sometimes reasonable to fall back on a well-accepted alternative ("tsunami", for example). Also, some terms are in common usage but are commonly regarded as offensive to large groups of people ("Eskimo" and "Mormon Church", for example). In those cases use widely known alternatives ("Inuit" and "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints"). When in doubt, check a mainstream reference work. |
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| | This does not mean that we should avoid using widely known pseudonyms like "Mark Twain", "Marilyn Monroe", "Billy the Kid", or widely known common names of animals and other things. But it does mean that we need to temper common usage when the commonly used term is unreasonably misleading or commonly regarded as offensive to one or more groups of people. |
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| | ==Be precise when necessary== |
| | Please, do not write or put an article on a page with an ambiguously-named title as though that title had no other meanings. For example: |
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| | * Apollo -> Apollo program |
| | * Nirvana -> Nirvana (band) |
| | * Pipe -> smoking pipe |
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| | ==Prefer spelled-out phrases to acronyms== |
| | Avoid the use of acronyms in page naming unless the term you are naming is almost exclusively known only by its acronym and is widely known and used in that form ("laser", "radar", and "scuba" are good examples). |
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| | ==Avoid the definite article ("the") and the indefinite article ("a"/"an") at the beginning of the page name== |
| | Except in titles of works ("The Old Man and the Sea", "The Lady or the Tiger?", "A Clockwork Orange") or in official names ("The Hague"), avoid the definite ("the") and indefinite ("a"/"an") articles at the beginning of a page name. This applies even if the subject of the page is usually preceded by the definite article "the" in speech or writing: Thus, for example, "White House" is preferred over "The White House" and "Middle East" is preferred over "The Middle East". |
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| | ==Do not use an article name that suggests a hierarchy of articles== |
| | Since Transportation in Azerbaijan could just as well be considered a subdivision of Transport as of Azerbaijan, do not use a name like Azerbaijan/Transportation. Instead, use "Transportation in Azerbaijan", then categorize in "Transportation" and "Azerbaijan". |
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| | ==Be careful with special characters== |
| | Some special characters either cannot be used or can but cause problems. For example you should not use a piping character (|), an asterisk (*), an ampersand (&), a plus sign (+), curly braces ({}), or square braces ([]) in a name. |
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