Talk:List of astronomers

message: Should this list and list of astrophysicists be merged?  If not, there are names here that should be moved to the other list.  --zandperl 14:12, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: They should be merged, because astronomers are often also astrophysicists. Now as  some are theorists only and some are obversors only, I think the name should be List of astronomers and astrophysicists.Wikibob 00:28, 2004 Mar 9 (UTC)
It is ten years later and Astronomers and Astrophysicists are still valuable separate WP articles, and rightly so. -- AstroU (talk) 18:56, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not Merged 

message: This list is rather objective, incomplete and in-comprehensive as there are many many astronomers/astrophysicists not listed and no real criteria either.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Lithium6 (talk • contribs) 
*I think you mean "subjective" or "unobjective". :) And you're probably right.  It could do with some cleaning up.  By the way, please sign you comments. --Etacar11 12:47, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Generally people who made important contributions to their fields who are recognized by their peers. All astronomers who won major prizes or awards besides the Nobel Prize. All astronomers who developed or invented widely used techniques or technologies within astronomy. Directors of major observatories or heads of space-based telescope projects.
With a little tweaking, that may serve.—RJH (talk) 18:34, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Objectivity, completeness, and comprehensiveness. 

message: In my opinion, this entry has to go, since:
*He is not notable enough to justify his own article: see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abdul Ahad. He is very far from satisfying the notability criteria for academics. 
*He has not even published (a substantial amount of) peer-reviewed scientific articles.
So this is not a famous astronomer, the subject of this list. --Crowsnest (talk) 01:39, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abdul Ahad 

message: Nether Grote Reber or Karl Guthe Jansky are "astronomers". The former is an amateur astronomer and the latter is a radio engineer. Looks like they should be deleted, or the list-def can be re-written per: "The following list of astronomers, astrophysicists and other notable people that have made important contributions to the field of astronomy,"
Also "famous astronomers" is redundant, if you are in Wikipedia your "famous" (notable). Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 00:54, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Did some cleanup. rm'ed redundant astronomical instrument makers, they have their own list. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 16:23, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Being listed in Wikipedia does not guarantee that you are a notable contributor to astronomy. IMO, Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 09:47, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: There are about one thousand on the list and so I browsed around in the list on about a dozen entries and they all looked very notable to me, with the exception of Al-Fadl ibn Naubakht (under 'N') who wrote in astrology.  Does this count as a notable astronomer? -- AstroU (talk) 00:18, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-astronomers on the list

message: We appear to have two lists, one a sortable list and one an alphabetical list but the two lists are different and unsynchronised. Anybody willing to clear up this mess ?  Velella  Velella Talk   21:20, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorts unfortunately by first name or however the name-field was originally entered. When sorted, the surname order becomes random except for single names like Eratosthenes or Chinese style entries where family name comes first. Nice to sort by year for the historical perspective, but many entries are missing those data whether lost in antiquity or just not edited yet into this article. Chronological sorting throws all the blank dates together, and is further confused by non-numeric years like circa whatever or BC, AD, BCE, CE modifiers. I've added a few born/died dates where provided in the individual astronomer articles, entered twice because of the two lists. Unsure whether von Struve should be under V or under S. Two of the five Struves show up under both. Also a couple van de this and van den that showing up under two different letters. The Table column "Notable for" is mostly blank and awaits some ambitious editor with more time than I have. Rairden (talk) 08:55, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Duplicate listings