Talk:proplanetary disk

RFV discussion: January–February 2021
I believe this is a misconception. The correct term appears to be /disk. There's some usage (611 Google search hits), but it is clearly outnumbered by protoplanetary disk (260.000). Some of the usage may be influenced by Wiktionary. There's no Wikipedia article by this name, not even a redirect although the entry contains a link to it. On the other hand exists. --Hekaheka (talk) 14:19, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes. I've moved it to the correct spelling. SemperBlotto (talk) 14:25, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
 * SemperBlotto What do you think should be done with ? Google hits pro- vs. proto- are 1.700 to 648.000. Among OneLook dictionaries Wiktionary is the only one to list it. --Hekaheka (talk) 14:44, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Probably ought to be deleted. SemperBlotto (talk) 14:47, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete as a misspelling.  Vox Sciurorum (talk) 15:07, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
 * It certainly doesn't seem to be a misspelling. It seems roughly synonymous with protoplanetary, though much less common. It is morphologically justified by one of the meaning of pro-. DCDuring (talk) 02:55, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
 * One of the uses I found mixed both spellings. I know you could derive a form from the prefix pro-, but given the dominance of protoplanetary and lack of a distinction being made the shorter form looks like a mistake.  Vox Sciurorum (talk) 11:12, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Cases for . This particularly if prefixes are confused. Fay Freak (talk) 18:57, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
 * But does that apply here? See pro- (as in prosimian and prophase) and proto- (as in protostar). DCDuring (talk) 22:48, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
 * If we can find instances where "proplanetary" is consistently used multiple times, then that would eliminate accidental typing error, but it seems to me almost impossible to differentiate ignorant misconstruction from deliberate rare but correct use of prefix "pro" instead of "proto", short of quizzing the author. Mihia (talk) 23:48, 1 February 2021 (UTC)