Talk:List of fish common names

Scope
FishBase lists over 150,000 common names, clearly excessive for Wikipedia. This list should limit itself to common names of fish taxa (order/family/genus/species) that have articles or are important enough to have their own articles in the future, and to names that FishBase characterizes as English-language names (do interwiki links for non-English names). Stan 23:27, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)

To make a start, each 'common' name should be followed by the scientific name (or names), so that wikipediasts know where to begin in writing entries. User:Wetman

Capitalisation
Mass-capping the names here is wrong, since not only is its nonstandard for fish species to begin with, but a bunch of genus and family names were capped, and nobody ever thinks that's right. I'm going to revert this unless I hear a very good argument. Stan 00:11, 13 May 2004 (UTC)


 * For what its worth, WP:BULLET says list items should start with a capital letter, although WP:MOSGLOSS says don't capitalise if there's any chance of confusion. Either way the current inconsistent capitalisation is worse than either option; lots of edits are just switching the capitalisation around. Vadmium (talk) 02:56, 2 February 2011 (UTC).

Swai
Found this at a local market in US. I didn't see it listed here. Acornblue (talk) 20:08, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Navigational aide
Just a suggestion: This list would better serve as a navigational by providing disambiguations here rather than linking to a bunch of red links and disambig pages.--ZayZayEM 11:22, 9 September 2007 (UTC) It was awesome! User fishlover2 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fishlover2 (talk • contribs) 17:50, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

High Brow Comedy
This is obviously one of the funniest things on the internet right now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.58.14.22 (talk) 16:19, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Rename?
Shouldnt this page be titled "List of common fish names"? I'll come back a week from now and see if anyone objects to a title that actually makes sense. —ᚹᚩᛞᛖᚾᚻᛖᛚᛗ ( ᚷᛖᛋᛈᚱᛖᚳ ) 22:57, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * the reason is this: List of fish common names, is a sub category of the category List of fish, so "'common names"' was just tagged after the main "'List of fish"' title. Just like all the other sub categories (at the time of addition) see Read it as List of fish, common names, only comma's are not supported in the title.

Fin-fishes
what are the diff. names of finfishes —Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.202.103.71 (talk) 04:21, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Names
Binomial names of the fishes should be added. Thought?--Mjs1991 (talk) 00:37, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Yep, adding them after the common name is a good idea. Steven Walling &bull; talk   05:34, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Why? Rivertorch (talk) 05:40, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, I've noticed a lot of pages that have list of (..animal..) with the commom name and then the binomial name. I just thought the binomial would look better.--Mjs1991 (talk) 05:56, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Links
Some of the links are broken, and somebody should fix them. --Coffinfish (talk) 19:59, 1 December 2013 (UTC)--Coffinfish (talk) 19:59, 1 December 2013 (UTC)


 * I'm glad you raised this. The list contains a significant number of red-linked entries. I keep meaning (but it keeps falling to the bottom of my to-do list) to check them and try to determine whether new articles or redirects are warranted. In most cases it should be a redirect (i.e., piped link) that is needed, but there may also be some bogus entries; vandalism is a recurring problem on this article, and I suspect some of it may have slipped through unnoticed. Please feel free either to fix any problem links you encounter or report them on this talk page. Rivertorch (talk) 04:51, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 14 December 2019
URL in list for Bleak @#$%^&*(*&^%$##$%^&*(, Oh no it seems to be error@#$%*&^%@indg ou---___!@#$%^&**%$#@WDFGY to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleak_(disambiguation) but URL should point to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alburnoides_bipunctatus as this is a unambiguously a list of fish.74.67.164.104 (talk) 14:52, 14 December 2019 (UTC)


 * ❌. There are two possible targets at the dab page; this appears to be intentional. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon &bull; videos) 16:37, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 6 November 2022
I want to add "European Catfish" to the list. 64.79.53.120 (talk) 13:27, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: There is no article called European catfish so it is unclear if you're referring to a subject which already has a Wikipedia article. If it does not, then it may not warrant inclusion, as comments above and the article itself indicate that the list is for entries that have Wikipedia articles. Consider writing the article first if it's something notable that just doesn't have an article yet. Aoidh (talk) 07:32, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

Duplicate links and missing page
Hello,

it seems that in the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fish_common_names there are duplicate entries for the fish 'Yellowfin tuna'. So I suppose one of them should be removed.

Also I found that there is already a Wikipedia page for the fish 'Sargo'. Maybe somebody could add it too in the S section too?

Link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargo Myapos (talk) 16:30, 18 November 2022 (UTC)