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I removed the reference to Princess TJ in the introduction. Originally it looked like this: "Typically, stellar is an adjective referring to one or more stars. starlet like Princess TJ. See also:" Perhaps it was misplaced? 209.107.121.184 21:32, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup

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This disambiguation page was marked for cleanup per MOS:DAB. I removed the following entries per WP:D, which states In other words, disambiguations are paths leading to the different article pages that could use essentially the same term as their title. Therefore, I replaced them with {{lookfrom}}.

sgeureka t•c 16:21, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Astrophysical Terms for Wikipedians searching for stellar properties

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It is very common for physicists to search for steller, knowing there are many astrophysical properties starting with that term, and many terms that include it. Rather than doing a general search and getting thousands of hits with no order, I collected most of the astrophysical terms in a list. I did not want to dominate the page with this long list, so I used a fixed height div.

I looked at lookfrom|stellar - All pages with titles beginning with stellar - but it does not distinguish astrophysical terms and it does not allow for searching for "stellar " with a space after it to separate out multiword terms. It would be nice if the prefix search could be generalized to include wildcards like "stellar *" for stellar followed by a word, or "* stellar" for a word followed by stellar.

I have been looking at categories, disambiguation pages, lists and regular articles. There is a continuum from Category Trees, to pages from pure automatic lists (categories), categories pages with some text and references, disambiguation pages with lists and references, lists with many page names embedded in a repeated pattern, and regular articles with many embedded page names and category names.

I think we need new ways to organize lists page names for rapid searching. Here I am suggesting something that might work until we can improve it. A lot of Category, disambiguation, list of, lists of, and redirect pages could be database driven with editors interacting with the database to modify classifications, add hierarchical searches, manage aliases, and generally improve Wikipedia.

Please contact me if you have questions about what I did, or suggestions for better ways to organize Wikipedia. RC711 (talk) 22:53, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And I added a couple of useful links under "See also". PamD 12:25, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]