Disputatio:Polaris

I recomend we move this article to Polaris. Neo-Latin word "Polaris" is a proper noun pointed out the star Alpha Ursae Minoris. Stella polaris (polar star) is was former Latin name for α UMi. This "polaris" is a classical-Latin adjective. In astronomy, stella polaris is a common noun pointed out pole star the star proximate to Celestial Pole. --Bay Flam 06:38, 11 Octobris 2008 (UTC) --Bay Flam 07:18, 11 Octobris 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Since we have a preference for classical Latin, and Stella Polaris is a good and unambiguous name, I think I would argue for not moving this. We do have a redirect from Polaris. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 09:14, 11 Octobris 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is Bay Flam saying that Polaris and Stella Polaris are (two) different stars? IacobusAmor 15:48, 11 Octobris 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've just looked again at this. Being older and wiser (or not) I now think that Bay Flam is right. If we take "stella polaris" as a non-proper name, it can correspond to en:Pole star, of which the Earth has had a whole series and other planets have two each at any time. (Neptune's south pole star is Gamma Velorum which I am about to expand, hence my reason for raising this.) We can then adopt "Polaris" as proper noun after all, to denote the Earth's current north pole star, corresponding to en:Polaris. So I now propose moving this page to "Polaris". Disambig notes could explain all. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 19:09, 14 Maii 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I've gone ahead and moved. An additional reason is that "polaris" is not really a classical Latin adjective anyway: hence we naturally fall back on the modern astronomical Latin, and that gives us "Polaris" as proper name. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 14:02, 16 Maii 2017 (UTC)[reply]