Talk:Drapetes (beetle)

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Requested move 22 March 2021 edit

Latest comment: 3 years ago5 comments4 people in discussion

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved -- withdrawn by nominator. (closed by non-admin page mover) Vaticidalprophet 02:23, 30 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

Drapetes (beetle) → Drapetes (animal) – misleading because only ONE animal genus Estopedist1 (talk) 18:40, 22 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

I would strongly oppose this renaming; it would set a terrible precedent, given how extremely more useful and specific "beetle" is compared to "animal". The OVERWHELMING majority of such disambiguations within Wikipedia (at least for insect genus names) specify WHICH group of insects a genus belongs to. I don't even like "insect" for many of these, as it is overly generalized - and "animal" is far worse. Dyanega (talk) 19:00, 22 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

Oppose - As is noted above, it's not a great precedent and there are many, many of these existing in this current format already. e.g. Harmonia (beetle), Pyrophorus (beetle), Cyphochilus (beetle), Tribolium (beetle), Colophon (beetle), etc. which work just fine for their purpose. Zakhx150 (talk) 17:12, 24 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

I withdraw my nomination per explanation in User_talk:Estopedist1#Disambiguation terms for genus articles--Estopedist1 (talk) 19:25, 24 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

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