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This subject fails
WP:GNG and
WP:NSCIENTIST. His singular discovery is not a notable event, just noteworthy (in the list where it appears). There's just not enough in unrelated third-party reliable sources about him to make an encyclopedic biography.
JFHJr (
㊟) 04:54, 2 June 2024 (UTC)reply
This article was created back in 2020 on a basis of a very large size (1,870 R☉) that would make it the "
largest known star" in that year, altought this size was taken from a large catalog that used a very inaccurate distance for calculate the radius. Nonetheless, it fails the
notability guidelines for astronomical objects: Not visible to the naked eye (at magnitude 8.15
[1]), not listed in any important astromical catalogue, never received significant coverage in any reliable source and was not discovered before 1850.
SIMBAD cites 29 references for this star, but all are only large catalogues.
InTheAstronomy32 (
talk) 19:10, 28 May 2024 (UTC)reply