Talk:Megaladapis

Koala lemur
I only find 4 references to the term "Koala lemur" in google scholar and 10 references to "Koala lemurs". On the other hand Megaladapidae brings back 153 and "Megaladapis" 358. It seems that the common name is less common then the scientific name. and should possibly be moved back to the genus name.--Kevmin (talk) 17:15, 6 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Sorry I missed your comment earlier. Most of the major secondary sources on lemurs mention this species (as well as the sloth lemurs, monkey lemurs, etc.) by common names.  The same goes for the taxonomic authorities for lemurs.  Generally, WP:PRIMATES prefers common names to scientific names when available.  Additionally, the academic literature tends to prefer scientific names to common names, so I'm not sure if what you're referring to is a fair comparison.  However, if you still prefer to move it back, we could discuss it briefly at WT:PRIMATES. –   VisionHolder  «  talk  »  05:24, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The current ratio at Google Books, which of course has both popular and scientific titles, is 33 for "koala lemur", 17 for "koala lemurs", and ca. 10,500 for "megaladapis". I think it is fair to conclude that the scientific name is by far the most commonly used one for this genus. Iblardi (talk) 21:14, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Per Tree_of_life: "In cases where there is a formal common name (e.g. birds), or when common names are well-known and reasonably unique (e.g. "Cuvier's dwarf caiman"), they should be used for article titles." – Maky  « talk » 23:34, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
 * And "Wikipedia does not necessarily use the subject's "official" name as an article title; it prefers to use the name that is most frequently used to refer to the subject in English-language reliable sources". "koala lemur" obviously doesn't fit these criteria. "giant lemur" seems somewhat more common, getting 500+ hits on GB, but it is still far less frequent than "megaladapis". Hence I propose to rename the article Megaladapis. Iblardi (talk) 06:33, 18 June 2012 (UTC)