User talk:Apistopanchax

American Goldfinch
Hi, thanks for your edits to this article, which I have now reverted. Although your edits were obviously made in good faith, there were three problems. thanks  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  06:56, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * This is a Featured article. Any significant changes, particularly a major taxonomic alteration, need an independent verifiable source
 * Because different organisations adopt suggested taxonomic changes with varying speeds, the AOU being a notoriously fast reactor, we have agreed to use a single international list, the IOC World List, as our standard. See the relevant page
 * This is not the only bird potentially affected. Even if we followed the proposed genus change, all the affected species would need to be moved, not just one.