Talk:List of Arabic star names

message: The English names in this list are not of Arabic origin.  "Andromeda" is Greek. I think her name means "ruler of men". "Milky Way" is obviously English. It's translation of γαλακτώδες (galaktodes), which means milky and was used to describe the appearance of the edge on view we get of our own galaxy.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.204.246.90 (talk) 00:09, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Others

message: I'm pondering whether this page should be merged into List of traditional star names, but since this page contains data about arabic phrase and translation, the same must be prepared for Greek, geek (Rotanev and such), Roman and other names. Said: Rursus ☻ 12:45, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: List of traditional star names

message: Checked for spurious and WP:OR-invented star names 09:59, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Checked

message: What the heck do these entries mean?
* End of the river "Another River"
* The flock "Difference"
* The black horse "John"
* The caracal "Hug the Ground"
* The shining one "Libration"
* The bright one "Yoke"
* The string of pearls "Systems"
* The belt "Scale"
* "The broken" ring of stars "Humorous"
* The navel of the stallion "Navel Persians"
* The great serpent "Goat"
* "The glance" of the lion "Party"
* The maidenhead "Faces"
* The fatty tail of a sheep "Mechanism"
* "The shoulder" of the Pleiades "Responsibility Chandelier"
One possibility is vandalism that has gone unchallenged because no one who looks at this article knows enough Arabic (and enough English) to know the real meanings!
The English column ought (in my humble opinion) to show a literal translation, with context or metaphor clearly distinguished by some consistent typographic device, e.g.:
* Ain = eye [of the Bull]
* Aldebaran = the follower [of the Pleiades]
* Algedi = the goat [=Capricorn]
* Algieba = the forehead [of the Lion]
* Alkaid = the commander (or leader) [of the mourning maidens]
* Alpheratz = the navel of the horse [i.e. Pegasus]
—Tamfang (talk) 05:53, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  say what? 

message: So I tweaked everything to conform to my own notions of style, using info from each star's own article.  
In some rows the rightmost column has more words than in the transliteration; I'm not competent to complete those entries. —Tamfang (talk) 23:58, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  slothery 

message: I've started going through this. Removing pronunciation aids that don't make sense without a key and I bet wouldn't make sense even with a key. (E.g. "dzh" for ذ. How would gem ("dzhem") be a guide to the pronunciation of them ("dhem")??) Also fixing transliterations to match the Arabic, removing numerous spurious glottal stops, filling in vocalized Arabic forms where missing, but not otherwise verifying the Arabic or the translations. That is, I'm making purely mechanical fixes that can be done without any knowledge of Arabic whatsoever apart from how the alphabet works. — kwami (talk) 21:08, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  fixing 

message: The rightmost column is titled "Scientific star name", however, it seems to be the Bayer designation, nothing about it is more "scientific" than the common name. In fact, in many cases the common name is the official name adopted by the IAU in 2016.
2A00:A040:19A:51E6:E322:F89D:DB72:FF1F (talk) 23:16, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I have reverted this - not all are Bayer designations (see Alruba = HD 161693 = HR 6618). AstroLynx (talk) 11:50, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I stand corrected. Sorry for not being thorough. However, there is still a root issue: means the rightmost column is not well defined. In some cases it is Bayer's, in others, it equals the Arabic name (e.g Azfar Adib), and sometimes it is something else. What is it supposed to stand for? 2A00:A040:19A:51E6:2F55:4E61:ACA9:4BE9 (talk) 14:38, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Scientific star name" column rename