Talk:Blue duck

Gay Ducks/UK Extinction
Probably should use something from this source. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/4962394/Blue-Ducks-likely-to-die-out-in-UK-after-male-birds-get-together.html 12.29.46.19 (talk) 13:53, 10 March 2009 (UTC) wiki sucks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.3.233.52 (talk) 22:26, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

No such article. Is this the same blue duck ?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.100.124.34 (talk) 16:19, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
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Move discussion in progress
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Taxonomy is selfcontradictory
Intro puts it in shelduck family. Taxonomy subsection says that it is no longer so classified. Which is correct — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.100.124.34 (talk) 16:17, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Righto, tried to clear that up a little. Taxobox now says Anatinae, which seems to be the most recent state.-- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 10:03, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Requested move 31 March 2022

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: Not Moved based on no clear consensus to do so. Mike Cline (talk) 11:56, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Blue duck → Whio – This bird is increasingly being referred to as a "Whio" in New Zealand, particularly in the NGO space, when compared to the current name. Sources which use the name Blue Duck often do so alongside the name Whio, while people referring to the bird as a Whio are less likely to refer to the name Blue duck. Turnagra (talk) 07:09, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Support per Google Scholar, which shows three times the use for whio as it does for blue duck. Searches on Google News are not useful, as they mostly turn up unrelated results for both terms. BilledMammal (talk) 08:34, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment from a quick look at the scholar links it seems that not all the references about either name are to the duck so probably need a deeper analysis. YorkshireExpat (talk) 15:19, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * That's a good point; I just looked at the first few and assumed the rest were also on topic. Unfortunately, ngrams has the same issue - almost all of the results are going to be for something different - using wildcards suggests that most "whio" results are actually "who", either due to a misspelling or an issue with scanning. Blue duck is slightly better, with at least three of the most common results being related to this bird. I'll have to look into it further. BilledMammal (talk) 15:55, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose per WP:COMMONNAME based on the Google Ngrams. Rreagan007 (talk) 15:28, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * How are you controlling for non-relevant uses of either phrase in your ngrams search? Turnagra (talk) 17:52, 31 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Oppose per common name (in New Zealand English, which I will readily concede is the only variety that matters here). The sources used in the sentence that says that "whio" is the common term in NZ English actually show the opposite. The Google searches and Ngrams cited in this move request are highly problematic and ought to be discounted on both ends. Red   Slash  19:11, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Red Slash. YorkshireExpat (talk) 18:11, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Support per WP:COMMONNAME in New Zealand English. I checked the $10 note in my wallet and under the image of the bird in question it said WHIO; the term BLUE DUCK was nowhere to be seen. Looking at recent reliable news sources in New Zealand, examples of the use of whio as the common name for the bird include: and  from Stuff;  and  from The New Zealand Herald;  from New Zealand Geographic magazine;  from the Otago Daily Times;  from 1 News;  from RNZ;  from Newshub. Even that most conservative of organisations, Federated Farmers, uses whio . Paora (talk) 08:22, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Post-move contribution
Post-move contribution. Was reading this New Zealand Herald (largest NZ newspaper by circulation) article from May 2022 and it doesn't even give the English name any longer. So I came here to check whether a move to whio has already been considered.  Schwede 66  09:43, 8 July 2022 (UTC)