User talk:OzzieAmerican

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Giant red kangaroo
While I generally agree with you, I've found a few instances of "giant red kangaroo" applied as a species descriptor, as opposed to describing general attributes, generally outside Australia, and it may have been a historical description. I agree that its use is so sparse that it doesn't belong as an alternate name, and it's certainly not in common use anywhere in the present day. Just don't put commentary into articles when you encounter things like that, a mention on the talkpage about why you made the change is best practice.  Acroterion   (talk)   17:33, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Giant red Kangaroo is definitely used in current zoological/scientific literature on marsupials or kangaroos (easy to verify via google books for instance). However the "colloquial" (?) Australian term "big red" might be added to the article as well, usually Wikipedia articles give all common or widespread names for a species.--Kmhkmh (talk) 17:41, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

As an individual that was born, grew up, and educated in Australia I can assure you that the term “Giant” is NOT used in Australia and the references to it in Google books are ALL American. Just because Americans want to call something Giant doesn’t make it the correct term. I noticed that some mathematician on here has taken it upon themselves to delete the “clean” adjustment I made 🤦🏼‍♂️ OzzieAmerican (talk) 19:30, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes but it isn't simply about what is used in Australian daily English. Wikipedia is an international encyclopedia in English. Also I've already included the "giant red" ''and "big red" information into the article but moved it into a footnote.--Kmhkmh (talk) 21:30, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
 * On the related topic of "big red" - without a reliable published reference (one really good one, or several acceptable ones, in the case of claiming a "common name in general use") this can't go into the article. Off the cuff I can't find such a source, all I'm getting is hits for a variety of Anigozanthos that goes by "Big Red kangaroo paw". Please do provide a reference before trying to add this to the article again. Neither your say-so nor the hypothetical backup of x million Australians is sufficient to make up for a lack of sourcing. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 21:15, 1 May 2021 (UTC)