Talk:Irenomys

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The result of the move request was page moved. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 12:11, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Insufficient Not enough. Show that the vernacular name is not in common use, and you have a case; but in the meanwhile, the presumption of

The choice of article names should put the interests of readers before those of editors, and those of a general audience before those of specialists. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 22:02, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply

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Chilean Climbing Mouse vs. Irenomys tarsalis. The name "Irenomys" has been the most common name used in English-language publications for this animal since 1919. See the link provided in the first post for a detailed discussion of the policies involved. Ucucha 22:06, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

By hypothesis, Google Scholar is a collection of the writings of specialists. (It's not quite as good at selecting them as it claims, but the difference for minor genera will be small.) Therefore, it is not representative, and does not answer the question of what general usage is.

The comments to which you link are your opinion. Two editors do not make Wikipedia policy, and the claim that they do is disruptive.

You are correct that by "common name", we mean the name in common usage - not necessarily the vernacular name. But the universe being sampled is all discussions of Chilean wildlife, including travel books, as well as - indeed in preference to - scientific papers: those who read scientific papers have other references, more reliable than us. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 22:40, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The link I gave is more than my opinion: it is a discussion of the policy issues involved and a justification of why, in cases like this one, the article title should be the scientific name. I never said that what I wrote there was a policy; please be more careful before labeling my writing "disruptive".

This animal has probably been mentioned in few, if any, travel books. It is poorly known, and of little interest to nonspecialists. Google Books and regular Google provide similar results to Google Scholar. There is a multitude of reliable source that discusses this animal under "Irenomys tarsalis" (some also give other common names than "Chilean Climbing Mouse", CCM from now), cited in the article as Kelt, 1993; Musser and Carleton, 2005; Osgood, 1943; Kelt et al., 2006; Ojeda et al., 2004; Martinez, 1993; and Steppan, 1995. The only reliable sources I have so far found that use CCM are the Red List and the single result in Google Scholar. A Google search also turns up [1] and [2] for CCM, and [3] for the scientific name and [4] and [5] for other common names. Several common names have been used for this species, and there is no indication that "Chilean Climbing Mouse" is even the most common one.

The relevant policy,

WP:NC, states that "Articles are normally titled using the most common English-language name of the person or thing that is the subject of the article." Irenomys is an English-language name, as it has been used in English-language publications for decades, and I think the sources I cited make it very plausible, to say the least, that it is also the most common English-language name. Ucucha 23:22, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply

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• Support per nom. I've never approved of
  WP:COMMONNAME, but this is a particularly egregious example of what happens when it's slavishly applied. Tevildo (talk) 23:53, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply
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• And, yes, I do think the article that's currently at
  Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. So nyah. Tevildo (talk) 23:57, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply
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• Support — The current page name reflects a common misunderstanding of the difference between
  common name. The most common (prevalent) name of this obscure taxon is the scientific name. The taxon is a genus with single species, so per Wikipedia convention use the generic name. Hence the correct page name of this article is Irenomys. --Una Smith (talk) 03:05, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply
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• Support The binomial is more common than the alleged common name, 361:120. Abductive (reasoning) 06:27, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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