User talk:Atsuko

Hi there,

Thanks for my new membership!

I went to look at the wiki web page and would like to ask if the naming convention used for pulsating white dwarf stars can be changed. The current ones listed are not standard names and I think it will be better if we use the conventional names instead. Or were these names defined for some reasons I am not aware of?? The following are my suggestions.

ZZA --> DAV :"ZZ Ceti stars" is a another name for DAVs.

ZZB --> DBV :The pulsating white dwarf stars whose spectra are dominated by HeI lines are called "DBVs".

May I suggest the following ones to be added?

DOV : The hot pulsating white dwarf stars whose spectra are dominated by HeII lines. DOVs, like the DAVs and DBVs, also pulsates in non-radial g-mode.

PNNV : Planetary nebula nuclei variable. They are younger than DOVs and have a planetary nebula around them. There is no clear boundary between the PNNV and DOV instability strip.

What do you think?

BTW is there a spell checker for the discussion page???

Atsuko 15:57, 15 March 2007 (CLT)


 * Hi Atsuko. Glad to see you confortable with the wiki. Note that if you write a message in your talk page, no body will see it except if one has put your talk page into his watchlist before the modifications, or is like me, a sysop who is checking all pages modified every day (and sometimes 10 times a day...:-) Anyway, I would personally trust you for these new denominations (I'm not familiar with WD). Checkout maybe the page with the team list and put a message in the talk page of the relevant people, who you think might have an opinion. If not, then go ahead. :-) A good practice is: when you are sure that the modification make sense, do it, and put an explanation in the talk page of the article. Let me know if you have more question. The two wiki-sysop/gurus are and me. Feel really free to put messages in the talk page of other people, it's made for that. Cheers. --  03:58, 16 March 2007 (CLT)
 * As for the spell checker: if your browser has one, then fine. But I don't think there is a built-in spell checker inside the wiki software.-- 04:00, 16 March 2007 (CLT)