Talk:Beta Aurigae

Requested move 31 March 2006

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The result of the debate was don't move. —Nightstallion (?) ^{Seen this already?} 07:23, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Requested move

Beta Aurigae → Menkalinan – {propor name — Hurricane Devon ( Talk ) 03:14, 31 March 2006 (UTC)} copied from the entry on the WP:RM page

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• Support: It is it's propor name ([1], [2], [3], & [4]). — Hurricane Devon ( Talk ) 03:18, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose: see rationale at Talk:Gamma Crucis. -- Curps 03:20, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose per Curps. Gene Nygaard 20:29, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

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Requested move 14 November 2023

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The result of the move request was: no consensus. (closed by non-admin page mover) -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH) 18:53, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

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Beta Aurigae → Menkalinan – More common name and easy to remember than the Bayer designation per provisional names that are usually preferred than the latter. JeBonSer ^{(talk | sign)} 15:12, 14 November 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. Reading Beans (talk) 19:13, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

• Comment Beta Aurigae in its various forms (Beta Aurigae[5], Beta Aur[6], β Aurigae[7], β Aur[8]), seems more popular than the Arabic name [9], but as a form independently, it is more popular than any single Bayer form -- 65.92.247.90 (talk) 13:40, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose per above, Beta Aurigae is the more common name. SevenSpheres (talk) 16:45, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
• Support: The first page of Google Scholar results I see for "Beta Aurigae", as linked above, are from 1911, 1994, 1948, 1971, 1898, 1910, 1948, 1968, 1968 again, and 1904. The first page I see for "Menkalinan" are from 1998, 2019, 2012, 2021, 2013, 2022, 2011, 2012, 2013 again, and 2023. Granted, this is not at all a representative sample, and the fact that it's Google-based means it's skewed towards articles posted on the Internet, but there does seem to be a clear preference for "Menkalinan" over "Beta Aurigae" in recent use.

(Results for "β Aurigae" are more mixed; some are more recent and others are older. The overall number of articles using this form, though, is much smaller.) 3 kids in a trenchcoat (talk) 04:04, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

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