Talk:Booted eagles (group)

Rationale
Redirect recommends creating redirects to sub-topics (in this case Eagle); and I felt that using one would be less fragile should someone restructure the Eagle article. It's also more flexible for the future. For example, Booted eagles or Aquilinae might become pages one day.

But why call this one "Booted eagles (group)", and not just "Booted eagles"? The problem is that there is an existing page for the species Booted eagle. Then we would have to be careful to distinguish  from. Also, most places that refer to the group do so in the singular: such-and-such is a "booted eagle" or such-and-such is a member of the "booted eagle" group. So we would have to use a pipe,, which could be prone to breakage. The phrase "booted eagles (group)" with the parentheses is unlikely to occur in running text, so making the need for a piped link more obvious. It may be inelegant, but is intentionally so to avoid accidents.

Pelagic (talk) 18:30, 21 October 2014 (UTC)