Template talk:Solar System

message: ...that I just had to stir things up, Actually, the January 15th edition of the Signpost had details of a very interesting new feature - CLICKABLE IMAGES. Some time back, there was an attempt to do just that with this template. However, due to technological limitations, it had to be abandoned. The new Wiki code (here) allows for the creation of clickable image maps WITHOUT having to cut up the image or otherwise "cheat" the system. As such, I've been bold and have already coded the template image as an interactive version (since it only involved some coding, and no changes to either the image or the template text).  (It's a fair bit of code for this template, only because there are so many different objects to link to. I've added extensive comments within the template to make sure anyone can work with it.) Cheers - let me know what you think! --Ckatzchatspy 12:31, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Works great! Thanks for the effort! The Enlightened 15:36, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I was the person who first proposed it. This new feature is great! --Cat out 17:50, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Inquiry: Would it be possible to align planet names with the planets? --Cat out 17:51, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it wouldn't be workable unless the text was rendered as a graphic element. There are too many variables at play - which browser are you using, what typeface, what size, etc. - to ensure that all viewers get the same effect with text layout. (Just look at the existing template, or any Wiki page for that matter, in Firefox and IE side-by-side. Add Opera, Safari, and the other browsers, boost your text size, and it just gets harder.) Nice idea in principle, though. --Ckatzchatspy 18:09, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  It's been quiet here for soooo long... 

message: I archived the old talk from November and December 2006 in a new archive page, Template talk:Solar System/Archive 4. RandomCritic 18:21, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archive 

message: Nice template, dudes! Said: Rursus 10:32, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I was think the exact thing, well done! --Dee4leeds 10:19, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow, I love this template! Is there a Featured Template arena? ALTON .ıl 05:23, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  This template is really well done. Dreg743 04:17, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Nifty!!

message: I removed the additions of the Gliese 581 system because it is not part of this solar system (it's a whole 20 light years away).  MThe topic of this template is the solar system (as in our solar system) and thus other systems do not apply.  Additionally, there have been many solar systems discovered, and they are not part of this template (if they were it would be unmanageably big).  If someone wants to create a template to sit at the bottom of the Gliese 581 system (and/or other systems) to tie all the related topics (i.e. planets) together that could be more appropriate.  BaKanale 15:05, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Gliese 581

message: I agree that the font sizes could be a little larger (though they should still be smaller than ordinary text).  But I don't agree with extending the box borders to the boundaries of the page.  This seems to be the in thing for boxes these days, but it's unsuitable for this particular box, which is visually built around the illustrative image of the Solar System planets.  Extending the borders to the edges creates a great deal of incompatible white space around both sides of the image; and I don't believe it's feasible to have an expanding and contracting image as the central feature of this box. RandomCritic (talk) 22:13, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: actually it the odd length that really makes the template look bad. the shorter squat template destroys the symmetry of the page bottom, particularly when more than one footer is present. it's just bad form and aesthetically distracting. --emerson7 22:37, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't agree that the template looks bad.  I'm sorry about the current obsession with uniformly sized collapsible navboxes, but in any case, this is not a generic navbox; it cannot be made identical in size and shape to other navboxes without a complete redesign of its entire layout.  Perhaps you have a proposal for such a redesign? RandomCritic (talk) 22:40, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: obsession? that's an odd term for order. while i can understand, and perhaps support, a non-collapsible footer, but having footers all helter-skelter kinda makes very little sense, and i believe the System&oldid=193565544 modifications i made (sans directors, and collapsible) are a pretty good compromise --emerson7 00:26, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

text: Yikes - I'd think I'd say it's not sufficiently straightforward... Wonder what emerson7 thinks. Sardanaphalus (talk) 16:10, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

text: How about making it a little more readable overall by increasing the base font-size (see version under "Intriguing." above)..? Sardanaphalus (talk) 09:32, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Revision

message: To include Makemake - rst20xx (talk) 23:09, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: And Haumea. 212.137.63.86 (talk) 13:14, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The image needs updating... 

message: I'm not sure how to do the hyperlinking. Also, the diagram atop the Solar System article needs an update as well. 
BlytheG 02:23, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Great - thanks for doing this so quickly! I've updated the template, the larger Solar System template, and so on. Please take a look at the licensing information and see if I've filled it out correctly. Cheers. --Ckatzchatspy 05:12, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Will this work?

message: ...the names are not assigned correctly with the above image. For example, "Uranus" is located below the image of Neptune in this template. Anyone able to alter it so that they are properly aligned?? Georgia guy (talk) 13:41, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No. The names are not in the image. Where they appear depends on your browser, which font you're using, and what size you have the text display at. kwami (talk) 22:08, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  It's kind of confusing that... 

message: We could easily link Rings of Saturn. We could also link the other ring articles (except for Rhea), though they might not be visible. Still nice for navigation, though. How about it? kwami (talk) 22:08, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rings? 

message: Hehe, so there I was in the pub yesterday trying to learn the new mnenomic (My Very Enjoyable Mission Cementing Justice Sweetly etc etc). Now I look at the template and the order of the new dwarf planets have been altered. I'm sure it was Pluto, Eris, Makemake, Haumea, but that seems to have been changed. Is the new order "correct" as per the IAU or is there another reason? Better find a new memory aid now, heh...doktorb wordsdeeds 07:11, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: They're now arranged according to the size of their orbits. I think it will be easier to learn the eight planets in fours, and realize that there may be another besides Ceres between those, and a growing number further out. kwami (talk) 08:13, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

text: Looks good, except that Haumea appears to be the largest of the dwarf planets. kwami (talk) 20:56, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Order 

message: How'd you get the border around the box?  I'm trying to make another box, and having a bit of difficulty with that.  --JamesR1701E (talk) 20:14, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: border

message: I, for one, think this edit has made the title bar look significantly uglier.  --Doradus (talk) 13:51, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title bar colour 

message: I'm removing 'Hills Cloud' from the template.  This term is not commonly used by the astronomical or planetary science communities, and the article itself isn't much good.  Should it become a standard term in the future, we can add it back, but I personally bet 'Inner Oort Cloud' will cover any other objects like Sedna. Michaelbusch (talk) 00:13, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hills Cloud 

message: This template is pretty and the picture of the different planets is an excellent idea that also has the virtue of being well-implemented. Zantastik talk 23:43, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great Template 

message: Eyh happy new year, 2010 made me think of space for some reason, which lead me to WP, and to this template, which I think should be about 5 times larger, so it would be easier to look and click on it. :-) 83.108.193.243 (talk) 00:21, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, I would also prefer the image to be much larger. Though I would also be content with a factor-of-two (or -three) increase so that it fills out the "average" screen width of today's monitors. --Roentgenium111 (talk) 19:03, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Very small 

message: I noticed on the page for Dwarf planets, it lists 9 dwarf planets (Ceres, Orcus, Pluto, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, 2007 OR10, Eris, and Sedna) but in this navigation bar, it only lists 5 (Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris). Can someone please do something about this inconsistency? - Omega13a (talk) 20:15, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The dwarf planet page only lists the other four as "highly likely" dwarf planets, not as dwarf planets per se, so I don't see a real inconsistency. (There's an extremely long discussion at Talk: Dwarf planet on whether they should be actually considered the same category.) Still, I wouldn't mind adding the four "highly likely" dwarf planets here, if there's consensus for it. Nor would I mind listing only the very largest dwarf planets (e.g., only Eris and Pluto) so as not to clutter the template. --Roentgenium111 (talk) 16:17, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dwarf Planets 

message: They're all calculated to be larger than Ceres and a few other dwarf planets so I think they should be listed. Quaoar and Orcus are also very large. Robo37 (talk) 15:05, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I suppose we don't go by size here, but by "category" (otherwise the largest gas giant moons would also have to be listed individually, since they're larger than Pluto or Ceres). See also my comment to the above thread. --Roentgenium111 (talk) 15:05, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: All have since been added as generally accepted dwarfs (except 2002 TC302, which turned out to be smaller). Double sharp (talk) 23:45, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where's [[90377 Sedna|Sedna]], [[(225088) 2007 OR10|OR10]] and [[(84522) 2002 TC302|TC302]]? 

message: Why does Charon get a spot in the top banner, while other larger moons do not? Isambard Kingdom (talk) 14:17, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed. Also I've added some example moons for each of the planets/ dwarf planets. Obviously there are too many to be comprehensive, but these are probably the most important ones for each planet. I've also tidied a bit. --Jules (Mrjulesd) 17:36, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pluto AND Charon? 

message: Why are Vulcan, Nemesis, Planet X, and Tyche still in the template under "hypothetical"? Haven't they been ruled out or debunked? 82.5.248.117 (talk) 01:48, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why are some ruled-out bodies still in the template? 

message: Split giant planets into Gas giant and Ice Giant 2607:FEA8:F420:38BB:190B:E83C:F516:E262 (talk) 21:02, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: . This seems like overkill.  It's just a navigation template and doesn't have to make every possible sub-distinction as possible. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 23:49, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 24 November 2019 

message: Please add to "Exploration (outline)" -> "Discovery" a new subitem, [ [ Timeline of Solar System astronomy | astronomy timeline ] ] and change "timeline" in it as "discovery timeline", in order to all it shows like "Discovery (astronomy · astronomy timeline · historical models · discovery timeline)". Thanks. 188.76.233.157 (talk) 13:23, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 13 January 2022 

message: Add Template:Solar System table to the sidebar, near the portals and outline, please? 2601:183:4A80:E570:BD66:1DEE:25BB:C13E (talk) 05:52, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Please elaborate on your request. Actualcpscm (talk) 23:35, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 24 October 2022