Talk:Phragmites australis

Requested move 16 August 2021

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 (non-admin closure) Bada Kaji (talk • श्रीमान् गम्भीर) 12:15, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

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Phragmites australis → Common reed – Per policy, we should used the common name for the title of the article. WP:COMMONNAME states that Wikipedia "generally prefers the name that is most commonly used". In English, this plant is commonly referred to as the "common reed". See for example, the Britannica article on the plant. Hence the article should sit at Common reed, and a redirect should point there from Phragmites australis. LK (talk) 08:14, 16 August 2021 (UTC) — Relisting. Adumbrativus (talk) 09:06, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

• oppose per WP:FLORA. Also 'Phragmites' is commonly used when referring to the plants, but that's hard to show ith ngrams given how wide a term 'reeds' is—blindlynx (talk) 15:38, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
  • How does WP:FLORA advise against this? —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 17:38, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

from WP:FLORA: Scientific names are to be used as article titles in all cases except when a plant has an agricultural, horticultural, economic or cultural role or use that makes it more prominent in some other field than in botany. With the exception of the small Uses section this article is about the botany of the species—blindlynx (talk) 20:59, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose - Using the scientific name is standard for this species as several other species are commonly called "reed" or "common reed", such as Phragmites karka, Phragmites mauritianus, and sometimes Phragmites americanus. I might actually argue that common reed redirect to the genus article instead of this particular species as it currently is. —Hyperik ⌜talk⌟ 22:30, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

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Link to Bush Tucker page

I note this plant is mentioned on the bush tucker page, and I'd suggest linking it to that page. - I don't know how to do that.

Tzali (talk) 17:28, 4 March 2023 (UTC)