Talk:Stellar chemistry

Merge proposal

• Keep Separate as the topics are different. This one is about elemental composition of stars, and does not even mention molecules or reactions between atoms. Probably this article is inappropriately named. Molecules in stars is about substances that are molecules, containing at least two atoms. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:56, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
• Keep Separate I think the names of the disciplines themselves are not as well distinguished here in Wikipedia as one would hope, and this reflects different backgrounds among our editors. There's confusion and overlap among a number of articles: this one, Cosmochemistry, Astrochemistry, and Stellar nucleosynthesis. As someone whose background is strictly in astronomy (stellar astronomy in particular) and whose interests lie chiefly in the spectroscopy of stars, stellar nucleosynthesis, and the chemical evolution of the Galaxy (that is, the accumulation of the heavier-then-helium nuclides in the Galaxy over its entire history), I have noticed there's some sloppiness in the nomenclature of subjects involving the intersections of astrophysics, chemistry, meteoritics and Solar System studies. This is apparent in Wikipedia in the Chemical evolution disambiguation page. Those whose background is in meteoritics, or in chemistry, tend to mean different things when they use these same words. This has the feel of a subject lying at the interface of several different disciplines, each with their own traditions and fundamental approaches, and some kind of summit agreement needs to be reached, lest well-meaning editors coming from these different fields start engaging in edit wars rooted in terminology differences in those different discuplines. BSVulturis (talk) 16:07, 9 April 2020 (UTC)