Talk:Platichthys

Requested move 25 July 2018

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The result of the move request was: moved as requested per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 19:26, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Starry flounders → Platichthys – I have never heard anyone using the name "starry flounder" for the entire genus, BOTH species (only the name for one of the species, already correctly placed on singular Starry flounder). I have also been unable to find any reliable sources supporting it. The claimed use of the name for entire genus has been tagged with citation needed in more that 4 years, but nobody has provided a ref. RN1970 (talk) 07:55, 25 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Support I'm not finding any evidence that "starry flounder(s)" ever refers to the European species or the genus as a whole. WP:COMMONNAME is not a mandate to avoid scientific names at all costs. For some taxa, "the name that is most commonly used" is the scientific name. Wikipedia should not be in the business of inventing vernacular names for taxa that lack them. Plantdrew (talk) 01:23, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Support: This kind of case has come up before, and the answer has consistently been that sending the plural and the singular to different articles, one on the genus one on the species, is a reader-confusing WP:SMALLDETAILS failure.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  04:05, 28 July 2018 (UTC)


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