Category talk:Constellation navigational boxes

Template construction

I didn't start the making of these templates, but I'm trying to generally follow the examples laid down by others before me. As such, I think it's wise to illustrate the criteria I am going through in order to make these. Now, unlike the usual stars' criteria for inclusion, I'm using a bit stricter criteria:

• All Flamsteed stars are included, lowest to highest (regardless of order changes from precession).
• All Bayer stars with Greek letters are included, placed as they would go in right ascension, and replacing the Flamsteed designation where appropriate.
• Stars with a capital Latin (excluding variable stars names; i.e. letters < R) letter are included if they are a transplant from another constellation (either from the delineation of constellation boundaries or from proper motion). These are placed in the list as by right ascension also.
• Stars which have the above criteria but find themselves in another constellation; i.e. they only have a genitive name from a different constellation, are appended to the end of the template list with both the Greek letter/Flamsteed number and 3-letter abbreviation of the genitive name (which by definition will not match the present constellation). To point out these instances further, they are placed in italic type.
• Proper names, where unambiguous, are included in parenthesis after the Greek letter in the template.
• Latin-letter stars which appear in constellations not covered (or not fully covered) by Flamsteed, are included under their Latin letter. This is primarily for the constellations of Carina, Centaurus, Eridanus, Lupus, Puppis, and Vela.

If someone does make additional templates, please only do so if you will also go to each blue link in the template and add the template itself to the page. The template should go after any stub declaration, and before the categories. And if someone finds all this to be too restrictive/arbitrary/whatever, please propose and implement something better (maybe a template with sections breaking down names by designation type, however I think that would get too large.)--Imzogelmo (talk) 18:46, 9 September 2009 (UTC)