Talk:Makira owl

Requested move 28 October 2023

 * 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: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) — Material  Works  17:32, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Makira boobook → Makira owl – English Wikipedia has a longstanding policy to use the English names in the IOC Checklist (latest version is 13.2 released in July) - unless agreed otherwise in a talk page discussion. The IOC page for owls is here. The agreement was reached back in 2009 here and reaffirmed in 2017 here. Aa77zz (talk) 15:18, 28 October 2023 (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.
 * Support Rreagan007 (talk) 16:01, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Support kweetal_nl (talk) 16:01, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Support this seems uncontroversial actually, you could've just moved without the RM too. AryKun (talk) 05:43, 31 October 2023 (UTC)