Talk:Blue-crowned parakeet

name of the article
before accidentaly finding this article, I had never heard the name "blue-crowned parakeet" I have heard both "blue-crowned conure" and "sharp-tailed conure" but never this one. I suggest that the article be moved to one of these other names.


 * Maybe someone at WP:BIRD can sort this out? Circeus 01:53, 29 March 2006 (UTC)


 * OK - about 9,530 google hits for "Blue-crowned Parakeet"
 * about 14,200 google hits for "Blue-crowned Conure"

I have raised this at WP:BIRD. cheers, Casliber | talk  |  contribs 01:18, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the proposal was no consensus. JPG-GR (talk) 21:04, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Some bird pages are reaching GA and FA status with common names and not by following the strict WP:bird rules (see Blackbird and House Martin). As this bird is known by most people as the a Blue-crowned Conure there seems to be no reason for "Blue-crowned Parakeet" to be used, now that WP:bird rules are being used less strictly. Snowman (talk) 22:49, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * See also section above, "name of the article", from about 1 year ago. Snowman (talk) 10:03, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Oppose. I think Wikipedia should stick with the names used in science. &mdash;JerryFriedman (Talk) 06:23, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Featured articles like "House Martin" and "Blackbird" use the common names of the birds, so I do not follow your reasoning. It is because few people use the "official" names "Common House Martin" and "Eurasian Blackbird" in their English speaking ranges, and similarly most people know this parrot as a conure. Snowman (talk) 10:25, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

(Morally) support - more ghits on 'Conure', plus more is a exacting epithet. Casliber (talk · contribs) 06:43, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Oppose this is a WP:ENGVAR issue. We don't usually alter article names for this reason. Black Kite 11:51, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
 * It is about using a commonly used name. Snowman (talk) 14:02, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Erm...huh? I don't follow your rationale BK...can you please explain? Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:20, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
 * It's not necessarily a commonly-used name. Whilst both "parakeet" and "conure" are used interchangeably in different fields in the States, the former is almost universal in many other English-speaking countries. Try and search for "conure" in a British context, for example - the word is practically unknown. Black Kite 16:31, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Conure for World Parrot Trust...and google as aboveCheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 23:49, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Move discussion in process
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Nanday Parakeet which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. &mdash;RFC bot 12:01, 4 September 2009 (UTC)