This list started as a whittled down form of Category:Numbered asteroids, after I added that category to all pages that required it, drawn from recursing Category:Minor planets 5 levels. Numbered asteroids > 10 000 were checked by me, and are mostly excluded (what makes this the shortlist). What I was unsure of is below, since they deviated ever so slightly from the typical bot-created/assisted articles. At creation, I have not looked at these asteroids < 10 000 closely. Since there are many more < 10 000 than > 10 000, please help!
I will probably add to this list as I go through the preliminary-designation asteroids.
I'm posting it here instead of WT:AST since it's similar in size and intent to the CarloscomB cleanup, which took a little more than 1.5 years to complete.
Articles > 2000 bytes with little or no ((Infobox planet)) parameters
a. Articles > 2500–3000 bytes with many ((Infobox planet)) parameters, especially those edited by my JPL-to-Infobox-planet code (max edit size: 1258 b,[1][2][3]min: -74 b, average: 467 b, stdev: 180 b, n: 2279 pages) (2500 byte limit ≈ 2467 b = 2000 + <average> + <zero stdevs> = 2000 + 467 b) (3000 byte limit ≈ 3007 b = 2000 + <average> + <three stdevs> = 2000 + 467 + 3×180 b)
Numbered asteroids <= 2000
Binary/trinary/triple asteroids
Potentially hazardous/dangerous asteroids/minor planets 4a. As of 2016/1/10, no entries below belong to JPL's list of PHAs
Anything with "orbital resonance", "#:# resonance", "same orbital period as"
If anyone suggests further filters, I'll apply them, if they're agreed on (please use the talk page)
The complete regex search pattern I used to apply rules #3, 4, & 5 was: (binary|trinary|triple)[\s‐–—-]+(asteroid|minor planet)|potentially[\s‐–—-]+(hazardous|dangerous)|(\d[\s\:\\\/‐–—-]+\d|orbital)[\s‐–—-]+resonance|same orbital[\s‐–—-]+period as
Use ((Done|Redirected)) for: Redirected does not meet WP:NASTRO ~~~~
Use ((Partly done|Unsure)) for: Unsure contains journal refs but doesn't include any notable text ~~~~
Use ((Not done|Not redirected)) for: Not redirected improved notability from available refs ~~~~
Use ((Not done|Not redirected)) for: Not redirected meets WP:NASTRO ~~~~
Use ((Fixed|Overall revision)) for: Overall revision article has been revised and expanded with non-trivial info.~~~~
If a list entry has changed and doesn't have a comment next to it, and 1 or more of the filters above now don't apply, then it should be removed from the list.
Please use this template (also on WP:NASTRO) as a guide when making redirects.
Text that should absolutely be checked and changed is highlighted below.
Keep your article's categories and ((DEFAULTSORT)) (these are for 57658 Nilrem only).
#REDIRECT [[List of minor planets: 57001–58000#658]]
((NASTRO comment))
((DEFAULTSORT:Nilrem))
[[Category:Main-belt asteroids|057658]]
[[Category:Astronomical objects discovered in 2001|20011017]]
[[Category:Discoveries by Michel Ory]]
[[Category:Minor planet redirects|57658 Nilrem]]
WikiProject banners on redirect talk-pages
After you make a #redirect, go to the talk page (or create it), and make sure it has:
((WikiProject Astronomy|class=|importance=|object=yes))
((WikiProject Solar System|class=|importance=))
|class= and |importance= should have null values for #Rs, unless importance > Low. These 2 parameters are automatically determined for #Rs so they can either be left null or not included at all. Either way, Category:Unassessed Solar System articles of Unknown-importance, Category:Unknown-importance Solar System articles, and the corresponding WP:AST tracking categories will be auto-populated if/when the #R becomes an article. Having the parameters null'd, however, is a courtesy to whoever decides to classify them in the future.
Double redirects & improperly named asteroids
Several redirects may exist for any minor planet redirect, from their older, provisional designation, from alternate spellings, from/to diacritical versions, etc. There is always a primary (preferred) #R, and any number of secondary (unpreferred) #Rs.
When the primary #R points to the List of minor planets, all secondary #Rs must point to List of minor planets as well, instead of pointing to the primary #R. These secondary #Rs need an additional template, ((R avoided double redirect)), to inform the editor, and to keep track of them.
Example: The primary redirect 12817 Federica has a secondary redirect, 12817Federica. 12817Federica should be redirected like this (replace the highlighted text as needed):
#REDIRECT [[List of minor planets: 12001–13000#817]]
((Redirect category shell|
((R avoided double redirect|12817 Federica))
((R from incorrect name|12817 Federica))
))
((NASTRO comment|do-not-cat=yes))
In the example above the 2nd template may change depending on the nature of the redirect. Cases are:
For incorrect names use template ((R from incorrect name|<correct name>)) (as shown above). Examples include 12817Federica, (9338)1991FL4 (both missing a white space), and 10803 Careyo (non-dicartical erratum in first publication, but later corrected to 10803 Caléyo). The wrong version is still displayed on JPL's SBDB). Unfortunately some of the non-white space versions can not be deleted and need to be redirected.
For alternative but correct names use template ((R from alternative name|<correct name>)). For example, (52246) Donaldjohanson is the incorrect version of 52246 Donaldjohanson, due to its parentheses. The parenthetical version is legitimate, but not used on English-wiki.
For provisional names use template ((R from former name)). This often goes along with ((R from move)) which is automatically added when the article was properly moved from its provisional designation. (The move-template, however, is missing when the article was created redundantly, or, when the provisional article has been created retroactively).
For non-diacritical names use template ((R to diacritics)). This type of redirect should exist for each and every minor planet which contains diacritical marks in its name. JPL's SBDB, for example, exclusively displays this non-diacritical version, but the officially published name in the Minor planet circulars has in fact diacritics.
For alternative apostrophes and hyphens use template ((R from alternative spelling)). Wikipedia uses straight apostrophes and often en-dashes instead of hyphens. Alternative #Rs with curly instead of straight apostrophes should use the alternative spelling template. The same goes for hyphens and en-dashes. Whenever wiki uses an en-dash instead of a hyphen (as used in the original MPC source), the alternative #R should contain the R from alternative spelling template.
Procedure
Search for all variants of the improperly named asteroid.
Perform a copy-move of all variants' missing information to the correctly named asteroid.
Check the history of each to see if any of them have, or had, useful information.
Merge any missing, useful information (such as categories or body text) onto the properly named article, temporarily un-redirecting it, if necessary.
In the edit summary, put links to the pages that had the useful information.
Re-redirect the properly named page, if it still fails WP:NASTRO.
Strip all categories and DEFAULTSORT from the illegitimate asteroids, to avoid duplicate listings in those categories.
The illegitimate asteroid pages should look like in the example above.
Preliminary and unnumbered
This list is thought to be complete, but please add any borderline-redirect minor planets I might have missed.
Caveats:
These unnumbered asteroids ignore filter rule #2 (not applicable).
This list is thought to be complete, but please add any borderline-redirect minor planets I might have missed.
Separated from #Numbered and named because it's more work to merge the 2 lists, and the unnamed ones seem to be edited as a group, and often contain similar mistakes/nuances/etc.
(6002) 1988 RO (MPC) Overall revision 40+ km Trojan with OK light-curve and size/albedo est. by LCDB and WISE, Rfassbind– talk 01:15, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
(6090) 1989 DJ (MPC) Overall revision 70+ km Trojan with OK light-curve and size/albedo est. by LCDB and AKARI/WISE, Rfassbind– talk 10:49, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
(79983) 1999 DF9 (MPC) Overall revisionRfassbind– talk 18:34, 31 August 2016 (UTC); Not redirected (meets WP:NASTRO) TNO, KBO and possible (albeit unlikely) dwarf planet more than 150 kilometers large, less than 500. exoplanetaryscience (talk) 21:07, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
(385695) 2005 TO74 (MPC) Not redirected, there are only 2 numbered Neptune trojans (of a total of 12). This is one of them. Rfassbind– talk 21:02, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
Numbered and named
This list is thought to be complete, but please add any borderline-redirect minor planets I might have missed.
1–2000
Any MPs listed here are accidental (in general, those <= 2000 should only be redirected after consensus). Please help by improving these stubs.
Last update of article-links on List of minor planets: around 09:30, 12 January 2006
2114 WallenquistJPLOverall revisionRfassbind– talk 3:41 pm, 23 January 2016; ## outer group 4 Outer Main-Belt asteroid. Member of Themis family. Article quality is not individually notable, but could be improved to such. exoplanetaryscience (talk) 1:07 pm, 10 January 2016, Sunday (7 months, 22 days ago) (UTC−5)
2156 Kate (MPC) Overall revisionRfassbind– talk 19:34, 31 March 2016 ## ~13 km S-type central group 1 Main-Belt asteroid with no particularly remarkable qualities. It has three journal references, with unknown content. exoplanetaryscience (talk) 22:03, 10 January 2016 (UTC),
4090 Říšehvězd (MPC) Overall revision – legacy. Rfassbind– talk 14:08, 27 October 2016 (UTC) "It is the asteroid with the most diacritics in its name." ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 17:36, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
8991 Solidarity (MPC) Overall revisionRfassbind– talk 05:41, 10 July 2016 (UTC). 3 related names, might be too small for a separate category. Deferring to someone else. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 20:22, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
8992 Magnanimity (MPC) Overall revisionRfassbind– talk 05:08, 10 July 2016 (UTC). 3 related names, might be too small for a separate category. Deferring to someone else. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 20:22, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
Redirected does not meet WP:NASTRO ~~~~
Unsure contains journal refs but doesn't include any notable text ~~~~
Not redirected improved notability from available refs ~~~~
Overall revision article has been revised and expanded with non-trivial info.~~~~