Talk:Ocean world

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• The oldest edit of page Ocean world was made by editing page Ocean planet's edit of 21:36, 24 September 2017‎ by User:AnomieBOT :: the edit history has been split there. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:58, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
  • See Talk:Ocean planet for old discussions. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:09, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Updating the article

There are new scientific developments regarding discoveries of internal liquid oceans in the far reaches of our Solar System. Much of the current scientific literature now uses “ocean planets”, "ocean worlds" or “water worlds" as synonyms. The current understanding and terminology does not limit such clasification to a surface ocean, but includes ice bodies with an internal ocean (see Ocean Worlds Exploration Program at NASA). Another example is in this paper: [1]. I will be updating this article accordingly. Any help, feedback and corrections are welcome. Cheers, BatteryIncluded (talk) 15:32, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

There's a problem now, however: This article was originally about a hypothetical type of planet whose entire surface is covered by water oceans – oceans far deeper than on Earth. BatteryIncluded's edits have changed the entire topic of the article completely, with the original topic completely erased. But the article was valid, had a valid topic and valid sources back then, and now people cannot learn about the original topic anymore. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 05:52, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

@Mdewman6: Please note that many links to ocean planet refer to the hypothetical planet type (all ocean), not to the topic currently treated in this article. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 15:29, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Move (rename) this article

Since the find of inner oceans in moons and possibly in Pluto (a Dwarf planet), Ceres, and other bodies not classified as planets, I think the name should be moved/changed to Ocean world which has always been a synonym anyway, but now it is more appropriate. Comments? Support/oppose? Cheers, BatteryIncluded (talk) 00:54, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Support the rename as reasoned above. PlanetStar 07:20, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

I strongly agree, and moved the page, given that there have been no objections in over 2 years. Mdewman6 (talk) 23:04, 1 May 2020 (UTC)