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'Change "gas" → "plasma" in lead sentence to accurately reflect the state of matter'
Hello, I'm Jcuhfehl. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, but you didn't provide a reliable source. On Wikipedia, it's important that article content be verifiable. If you'd like to resubmit your change with a citation, your edit is archived in the page history. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you.
@Gzymqlxwj I noticed that you went through a bunch of astronomy related articles to change the word gas to plasma in them. When you did this, you did not provide a source that supports this change. While the term plasma might be partially correct in some of these cases, the astrophysics literature prefers to use gas in the cases which I checked. It is important to use the terms that are actually used in the field instead of "forcing in" your own preferred term. Could you provide sources to support your assertion that the term plasma is used to describe the phenomena in the pages you edited? Otherwise, I think these changes should be reverted. Jcuhfehl (talk) 10:31, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
Following up on this: I reverted some of the changes that you made recently, in articles where I believe that the original text was either referring to neutral or molecular gas and not plasma, or in cases where the term "gas" was used generically to refer to matter in either atomic gas, molecular gas, or plasma phase. To be clear, I think there are specific places where changing "gas" to "plasma" would be ok (i.e. discussion of plasma in relativistic jets) but in general astronomical research literature uses the term "gas" to refer broadly to neutral or ionized gases in galactic interstellar media and nebulae, and "plasma" tends to be used more in situations where plasma effects are being examined specifically. If you do make such changes in the future, please try to be careful to be consistent with usage in astronomical literature, and try to be careful to only make that change where the text is clearly referring to plasma and not neutral atomic or molecular gas. Aldebarium (talk) 18:32, 20 April 2026 (UTC)