Talk:Estrildidae

Requested move 4 October 2018

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The result of the move request was: MOVED (non-admin closure) Galobtter (pingó mió) 12:40, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Estrildid finch → Estrildidae – The most common name given in reliable sources, verifiable, systematised and accepted; or defer to [IOU breakaway] IOC the same name preferred at WP: Birds, "Estrildidae", that is parenthetically noted as "Waxbills, parrotfinches, munias, whydahs, Olive Warbler, accentors, pipits", abbreviated to "Waxbills, Munias and Allies", which is unsuitable for a title here for several reasons. cygnis insignis 12:33, 4 October 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me &#124; my contributions 17:18, 12 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Support per WP:COMMONNAME; that is, what WP:COMMONNAME actually says, not what is is widely presumed to say. "The name that is most commonly used (as determined by its prevalence in a significant majority of independent, reliable English-language sources)" is the scientific name, Estrildidae. "Estrldid finch" is used in a minority of not particularly reliable sources and is almost always accompanied in said sources with "Estrildidae". "Estrildid finches" fails the article title criteria. It is scarcely more recognizable than "Estrildidae" (if somebody knows what "estrlidid" means, they certainly known what "Estrlididae" means). It is not natural; "Estrididae" is more widely used as an internal link, and is a more plausible search term. "Estrildidae" is slightly more concise than estrildid finch.  In spite of a tendancy for some bird family articles to use barely recognizable, jargony terms as titles that are not scientific names (satisfying a slavish devotion to an assumption that WP:COMMONNAME eschews scientific names at all costs), scientific names are in fact most consistently used as title for Wikipedia articles on animal families. Plantdrew (talk)


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