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GRIN edit

{{cite web |url= |title= |date=2017 |website=[[Germplasm Resources Information Network]] (GRIN)|publisher=[[Agricultural Research Service]] (ARS), [[United States Department of Agriculture]] (USDA). |access-date=8 November 2017}}

APGIV edit

{{Cite journal|authors=Angiosperm Phylogeny Group|year=2016|title=An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV|journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society|volume=181|issue=1|pages=1–20|url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/boj.12385/epdf|format=PDF|issn=00244074|doi=10.1111/boj.12385}}

APGIII edit

{{Cite journal|authors=Angiosperm Phylogeny Group|year=2009|title=An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III|journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society|volume=161|issue=2|pages=105–121|url=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122630309/abstract|format= PDF |issn=00244074|doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x }}

Cycads edit

<ref name="Stevenson1992">{{cite journal|last1=Stevenson|first1=Dennis Wm.|title=A formal classification of the extant cycads|journal=Brittonia|volume=44|issue=2|year=1992|pages=220-223|issn=0007196X|doi=10.2307/2806837}}</ref>

Algae edit

{{cite web |url= |title= |last=Guiry |first=M.D. |last2=Guiry |first2=G.M. |date=2019 |website=AlgaeBase |publisher=National University of Ireland, Galway |access-date= 2019}} {{cite web |url= |title= |last=Guiry |first=M.D. |last2=Guiry |first2=G.M. |date=2019 |website=AlgaeBase |publisher=World Register of Marine Species |access-date= 2019}}

PPG edit

{{cite journal|authors=PPG I|title=A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns|journal=Journal of Systematics and Evolution|volume=54|issue=6|year=2016|pages=563–603|issn=16744918|doi=10.1111/jse.12229}}


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POWO edit

Species accepted by Plants of the World Online as of 2024:[1]<ref name=POWO>{{cite web |url=http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names: |title= |date=2024 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|access-date= 2024}}</ref>

search for extraneous "the'

Herpetology articles needing major overhauls]] edit

Taxonbar to catch errors edit

Automatic taxobox peeps: M. A. Broussard, Quetzal1964, Declangi, Od Mishehu, William Avery, Kevmin, Alex Cohn, Pvmoutside, Hyperik, NessieVL, Roy Bateman, Loopy30

interesting diff by Pvm; removed unreffed vernacular name

ToL Admins: Choess, Sabine's Sunbird, OhanaUnited, Casliber, Guettarda, Jimfbleak, JoJan, Premeditated Chaos, Od Mishehu, Smith609, Bob the Wikipedian, Anarchyte, Nick Moyes

Sex, drugs, rock & roll edit

  • Wikipedia could perhaps use an article on Lenten fish dispensations (I'm no theologian, but I think it counts as fasting if you eat something weird instead of the usual). UK beaver, seal, porpoise, heron, even sheep found drinking from streams Beaver in STL; barnacle geese, hippos, capybara. Covered so far at Fasting and abstinence in the Catholic Church#Lent
  • Why is ‘Orthocoronavirinae’ a Hot Google Search? (August 2020) Well, I'd guess it might have something to do with the subject Wikipedia has decided to associate with "coronavirus". This article is the top Google result (16 Jan 2021) for "Orthocoronavirinae". The next two are NCBI taxonomy. Wikipedia is #4, but Google throws a bunch of stuff related to the pandemic before it gets to Wikipedia. d:Q89469904 has 78 Wikipedia articles. d:Q57751738 has 46, mostly in minor languages. Major language Wikipedias are doing more poorly in putting the pandemic in context with its cousins. (Bing, Duckduckgo and Yahoo all return a box for the Wikipedia article when searching Orthocoronavirinae). (2023 update) Coronavirus isn't likely to be getting new incoming links now, but I'm not convinced [COVID-19]] is the COMMONNAME over covid/COVID (capitalize as you will). And Covid test is what people are actually going to search for, not COVID-19 testing if we're going back to the complete dumb-fuck (2005ish) era of Wikipedia title where Wikipedia needs to optimize titles for Google rather than vice versa (Ok, not actually "vice versa", but search engines find Wikipedia articles however they are titled now).
  • Heteroconger chapmani; might be interesting to have lists of destroyed holotypes? Manila fish, Berlin herbarium, Brazilian national museum?
  • Parsana malekiana only case I'm aware of where authors have named a taxon after themselves; should have split authorship; Maleki for the genus and Parsa for the species.
  • Mormon there is no justification for a plural title for Mormons. Wikipedia situation results from a series of edits in 2011 that didn't want to deal with the ambiguous links.

Disfavored cladistic hypotheses articles edit

Especially for articles involving competing relationships between three clades with a well defined parent (i.e. a clade for every node in the tree). Need a category for these (Cat:Obsolete cladistic hypotheses)? Should not be included in child auto taxoboxes (clade for every node is excessive).

  • Tactopoda (=Tardigrades+Euarthropods, Onychophora out; appears more recent evidence is for Euarthropods+Onychophora) parent = Panarthropoda/Lobopodia
  • Halvaria (=Heterokonts+Alveolata, Rhizaria out; Halvaria article suggests evidence is for Rhizaria+Alveolata, Heterokonts out) parent = SAR/Chromalveolata
  • Excavata nope

Multiple taxoboxes edit

38 pages with multiple {{Taxobox}}es
  1. Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre, Pinjore
  2. Little cherry disease
  3. Acystopteris
  4. Cystoathyrium
  5. Drynarioideae
  6. Mohria
  7. Platyzoma
  8. Doodia media
  9. Doodia
  10. Sinopteris
  11. Rhizoctonia solani
  12. Mycobacterium avium complex
  13. SMEDI
  14. Glanville fritillary
  15. Cheilanthoideae
  16. Didymoglossum
  17. Rhachidosoraceae
  18. Diplaziopsidaceae
  19. Hemidictyum
  20. Blotiella
  21. Lonchitis
  22. Metaxya
  23. Matoniaceae
  24. Jamesonia
  25. Georg Friedrich Kaulfuss
  26. Ulvella
  27. Lindsaeaceae
  28. Saccoloma
  29. Lastreopsis
  30. Arachniodes
  31. Hymenophyllaceae
  32. Polystichum
  33. Onoclea
  34. Dryopteridaceae
  35. Sceptridium
  36. Botrychium
  37. Lupinus
  38. Equisetum
  • Verrucularia (plant 1840), there's an algae from 1834 with 0 accepted species on Algaebase that is incertae sedis in Eukaryota.

To Do edit

Tanuki views

  • Noccaea montana; my creation, confusion with European species still remains (POWO item is European)

{{Taxobox authority}} is junk

  • Wightia (plant); two species, and family placement isn't well settled. Add species articles and update if APGIV family consensus changes
  • Shell mound redirects to midden, but most of the content is shell specific. Shell mound was merged to midden.
  • (genus) dab terms (I had a search for this, need to find and relink}
  • Article challenge; any British species that also occur in another part of the English speaking world (whether circumboreal, weedy, invasive) should have articles. (Rationale; British Isles have highest ratio of English speakers to plant species, should be a priority for a complete article set, but I'm not interested in British plants per se). Mashup BSBI vs. USDA PLANTS/FNA, AU/NZ/ZA databases to find missing articles.

Category:Potentially dangerous food

Is hoax Ctenophthalmus nepalensis a nomen nudum? What project banners should it take?

species epithet, specific epithet, epithet (disambiguation), and linked concepts need sorting. Epitheton and any links to epithet with a taxobox can be made more specific (project for Blue Link Patrol). herb, Hollywood, sex, Cannabis

section (biology); many links from fungi that should go to botany sense

Dab Stelis vs. Stelis (insect)? And list of Stelis (insect) species?

Category:Redirects from former names; check for scientific names

{{Short description}}; a bunch of Cladonia species had one starting with a period; should check for nonalphabetic characters at the beginning

Gelinae vs. Cryptinae; is this name H.K.Townes non-ICZN parallel taxonomy?

CreatorGate; news story rolled into a controversy section. Flash in the pan controversy occurring in the Wikipedia era either deserve articles or nothing. Should not be in an article on a publication (and ROGD section at target should be not much more than a See Also). Why does Wikipedia have any articles with "controversy" title that aren't forks from an unambiguous base name (i.e. not gamergate)? Flat earth, global warming, creationism, moon landing. Compare (conspiracy theory).

Fritillary/Fritillaries; need disambiguation

Wingspan; covers bird and planes, etc. On a related note Pitch (flight) linked in Kuehneosaurus, Yaw, pitch, and roll merged in 2010, with 3 targets since merge (going from ->math->vehicle->aircraft with successive retargets)

Screwworm, Screw worm infection need sorting. Old/New World species, etc 

==Information as a section header (and IPC, PC, IC, Cultural references)

Brickellia californica; includes most of the bad ecozone categories for SW US

Inflata; my redirect to Wiktionary was reverted, take to RfD

Hominina should perhaps be an article; scope of australopithecine needs discussion

Snowball plant, untagged. SIA?

Snow Lian Hua nonsense title merged in 2013. Delete?

Saussurea gossypiphora or Saussurea gossipiphora

Update genera for Astereae (and add taxonomy template refs), Cardueae and Cichorieae

Acarne no such genus, just an epithet for Pagellus acarne?

Glabrous, glabrous (botany), Glabrousness (disambiguation) sort out. most incoming links to Glabrousness are botany

alpine ladyfern vs. Alpine Lady-fern

Antennopoda is a competing hypothesis with Tactopoda

Broccolini is a trademark. Should this title be used?

Leptoxis crassa; synonym, move I screwed up

Split species articles from Celery and Wasabi

DAB links to List of plants known as lotus

  • Cereus elegans; probably should be a homonym dab page (and likely other C. elegans articles)
  • "used to cure" isn't really appropriate language even for treatments that are backed by MEDRS (except maybe for current language at kidney; "nephrectomy is frequently used to cure renal cell carcinoma" (yes, if renal cells are removed, a patient no longer has renal cell carcinoma (but it may have metastasized)). Also [%22cancer%22,%22wellness%22,%22love%22 "cure for".
  • Low view (single digits per month) non-stub technical article on a species; Oliva vicweei; Ganeshbot creation, expanded in 2022 by a long registered editor with minimal contributions

Cornbread_Mafia#Cornbread_Mafia_in_media_and_popular_culture, a total coatrack of unrelated uses

  • Feijoa; move back to genus/common name title
  • 1469 Linzia, Linzia, Linzia (plant); taking Linzia to RfD would likely resolve in a dab page. Dab folks are nervous about red-links. Nothing that passes GNG standards of some folks
  • Viola soraria as state symbol for Illinois and Rhode Island? Not sure if any "violet" species is specified. Illinois has a state wildflower, so the violet isn't wild? Wisconsin does list a (synonymous) species. Not sure about New Jersey, but List of U.S. state and territory flowers list as species.
  • Mononymous (usually Brazilian) footballers disambiguated by birth year. I guess COMMONNAME is the reason for not using a polynymous birth name. And WikiProject Football has their NOTNOTBROKEN thing.

Wikipedia:NOBIGDEAL redirects to a policy page. Is this actually a (non-deprecated/historical) policy?

  • Potamotyphlus kaupii; should be Potomotyphlus (I moved to the wrong spelling, but taxonbar sources had that spelling at that time)


Category:Mammal fossils

Category talk:Amara (genus) move

Should apricot really be about Prunus sect. Armeniaca (it wasn't before Feb 2021)?

  • Indian Verbena; delete? doesn't appear to be a common name for anything


Parakaryon myojinensis, river dolphin; one of a kind "taxoboxes"

Tirante is Evoxymetopon taeniatu

  • Satureja gilliesii; setup as a SIA (with references), but I think the only case where a homonym isn't a dab

Rock rose has incoming links that perhaps could be disambiguated


  • Scandosorbus intermedia, claimed to be a hybrid of Sorbus aucuparia, S. torminalis and another species. POWO has two species in Scandosorbus, none of which are the hybrid parents.
  • Cleome hassleriana move back? POWO adopting a massively disruptive position here. Dracaena americana title is contrary to another disruptive POWO position. I'd expect some conservation proposals to be forthcoming.
  • Civil Conflict; probably notable as dumbest sports rivalry, but sheesh
  • Tiger anemone; make dab page? Seems to be recentism for the Singapore species.
  • Royidris species list has species as Vitsika

{{Btname}}; barely used template of little utility

Bee shrimp/Golden bee shrimp; quite a mess with Wikidata items and interwiki links. Which is the species and which are aquarium variants?

  • Gray and black four-eyed opossum; a Wikipedia invention; not used in two of the sources in the taxobox (one uses gray four-eyed opposum for the genus). The one source that mentions "gray and black four-eyed opossums" also uses "pouched/pouchless four-eyed opossums" in a discussion about the confusing taxonomic history of two generic names. "Gray and black" is a descriptor uniting two species and shouldn't be used in a singular form. A similar situation would be having "Asian foozle: and "European foozle" in genus A and "American foozle" in genus B. "Asian and European foozle" wouldn't be a common name for genus A and isn't an appropriate article title.
  • Cream-bellied munia; Avibase gives hybrid formula as Chestnut x Five-colored Munia and Lonchura [ferruginosa x quinticolor] . Ferruginosa is not the chestnut munia.
  • Loricarioidea; apparently in 2006 FoTW, but taxonbar is empty. Does FoTW still recognize?

Dab links to Scale (zoology) (articles exist for fish scale and reptile scale)

  • Pit (botany) is the vascular thing. Drupe endocarps aren't mentioned at pit
  • Kalette a brand name; kale sprouts is apparently generic and there's a cultivar name redirect as well

Mustard and cress XY redirect, possible topic

  • Triticum compactum; not recognized as a species by POWO, and links to redirecting infraspecies with no rank specified
  • Polychaete and crustacean replacement for taxoboxes

Not monotypic edit

Monotypic, what to do (only ever treated as accepted with monotypic circumscription) edit

?tag with r from monotypic? probably yes. tag as R from alternative scientific name? less clear yes/no. add non-redirect categories?

Monotypic to merge edit

Monotypic to move edit

Common fruits edit

Orange (fruit), Banana, Cherry, Grape, Kiwifruit aren't taxa. Pear is Pyrus; Apple is Malus domestica. Sugar-apple] is separate from Annona squamosa. Peach/Peach (fruit) Macadamia is ostensibly the genus, but mostly cultivated nuts (Durian is also ostensibly the genus).

Users creating alternative scientific name redirects edit

  • [Qwertzy2
  • Caftaric
  • Declangi
  • Daderot
  • Darorcilmir
  • Dysmorodrepanis~enwiki
  • Encyclopetey
  • Filikovalo
  • FloraWild
  • Gihan Jayaweera
  • Guettarda
  • IceCreamAntisocial
  • JMK
  • Joseph Laferriere
  • Loopy30
  • Melburnian
  • Ninjatacoshell
  • Obsidian Soul
  • Oeropium
  • Paul venter
  • Pekinensis
  • Phn229
  • Qwertzy2
  • Ricardo Carneiro Pires
  • Sminthopsis84
  • TDogg310
  • Tortie tude
  • Vinayaraj
  • AllTheUsernamesAreInUse
  • FunkMonk (mostly chordates)
  • Gdrbot (also lots of fish scientific names redirecting to vernacular names with only 1 edit)
  • Ypna (common names and monotypy redirects)
  • Sasata; vernacular names for fungi
  • Rocket000; many vernacular names for insects
  • Cresus22; vernacular names for fungi
  • J Milburn
  • Eubot

Taxonomy templates with skip problems edit

Template:Taxonomy/Dimetrodon; nothing between phylum and family Template:Taxonomy/Pterosauria; nothing around class

Dubious taxobox edits (verbose links with no logic for avoiding redirects) edit

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Problem redirect edit

User created plant common name redirects checked edit

  • Smallweed
  • PDH

Batrachochytrium no longer monotypic, needs article

Hognut/Pignut; split Red fruit/Red Fruit; translation of Indonesian name, delete?

en.wiki as dumping ground for garbage prose that certainly was inappropriate for Wikispecies edit

Brosimum utile ([2])

Resources edit

http://nzpcn.org.nz/flora_search.aspx maybe has downloadable NZ vernacular names http://keys.trin.org.au/key-server/data/0e0f0504-0103-430d-8004-060d07080d04/media/Html/taxon/index_common.htm has some AU vernacular names https://books.google.com/books?id=STTRCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA436&lpg=PA436&dq=%22great+ironweed%22&source=bl&ots=4clgNcIpOg&sig=dH275XzEjsbxsNe2uet2LnpQtZ8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDwQ6AEwCGoVChMI15f07-iBxwIVgVc-Ch2SLgtZ#v=onepage&q=%22great%20ironweed%22&f=false

  • Australian common names database [3]

Good wording: Setaria verticillata is a species of grass known by the common names....

Tropical hardwoods that shouldn't redirect to one species edit

Move to common name? edit

  • Macadamia for the nuts? incoming redirects to genus page need some work

Single edit scientific name redirects not categorized edit

Fungi

Algae

Species worthy of articles but redirecting edit

Retitle to scientific name? edit

(two stars=common name may be appropriate, or other issues with a straight move to scientific name).. Pines mostly at coined vernacular names because not well enough known to accumulate real common names

  • Bishop pine; restricted CA endemic, NT conservation status
  • Caribbean pine; Belize, Bahamas, Turks & Caicos (and widespread in Spanish speaking nations on the Caribbean)
  • Chihuahua white pine; presence outside of Mexico tied up with taxonomic status of Pinus reflexa
  • Coulter pine; scattered pops in CA and Baja, NT status, another common name
    • Jack pine; widespread in eastern North America
  • Jeffrey pine; CA, OR, Baja. Doubtful that anybody rely on common names can distinguish this from ponderosa pine (which is a far better candidate for common name title). Other common names
  • Knobcone pine CA, OR, mostly scattered pops, but abundant in Siskiyous
    • Scots pine Only pine native to British Isles. Good candidate for common name title
    • Stone pine Continental Europe, classic source of pine nuts. Multiple common names though, and "stone pine" also appears in common name for P. cembra, P. pumila, P. sibirica, P. cembroides, P. roxburghii, P. koraiensis (and P. albicaulis is "a stone pine"; i.e. subsection cembrae (P. roxburghii and P. cembroides are not cembrae, the other 5 correspond with the taxon).
  • Table mountain pine Appalachian
  • Torrey pine narrow CA endemic, VU status
  • Western white pine, fairly widespread in western North America, and is apparently well enough known to have multiple common names, so yeah...

Other

Other edit

Multiple taxoboxes:

Mystery: How did page views go up for both Beta vulgaris/beetroot (beet) and Silybum/Silybum marianum (milk thistle)after common name redirected to more specific (and more commonly called) topic? Check Curcuma aromatica for page views after 18 Sep 2013 redirect creation. Check Vigna aconitifolia after 10/26/2013 move from Moth bean. Check Phytolacca/Phytolacca americana after 1/28/2014 reassignment of redirecting common names to species. Check Sphaeramia orbicularis after 10/15/2014 move and creation of redirects. Plant moves to common name Blue spruce seems to have lower page views since 6/2013 move; how are page views for spearmint and ajwain.

What happens to page views after move from synonym to more widely accepted name (move 12/19/19)

Urophycis regia 5210 Google hits, Spotted hake 4210, Spotted codling 1740. Article created 11/18/2014, redirects created 11/19/2014. How will having Wikipedia article influence hits for scientific and vernacular? Check back in a few months.

Heterotoma/Heterotoma (bug); needs better disambiguation

Stoma; needs medical links disambiguated

Thorax; probably more links from arthropods than humans (and chest is also ambiguous)

Merge: Seriola/Amberjack and Peacock bass/Cichla

Sartidia perrieri; take to GA? Probably all that written about a plant known from a single specimen. Also Sorbus × houstoniae. And Armadillidium stolikanum (two specimens)

Gigantea (alga); monotypic, but species Gigantea bulbosa is illegitimate per Algaebase. G. bulbosa isn't the type. Need article for Saccorhiza polyschides to accomodate bulbosa and article at Laminaria digitata with redirect Gigantea digitata to take care of type (then redirect genus to Laminaria)

Harungana;erroneously monotypic

Rollinia deliciosa needs move to Rollinia mucosa?

Housefly; against usual practice for Diptera common names

Rosa wichuraiana, Rosa luciae TPL and BSBI have synonymy going the other way (luciae accepted). USDA PLANTS accepts wichuraiana

Check: Gloxinia and Gloxinia (genus)

Myleus shomburgkii; misspelled, needs technical move; Lana's sawshark needs cut and paste move repair

Nesaea needs to turn into two (or more) stubs. Plant genus, nymph, algae genus....

Egg needs dab repair with Egg (food). Milk really should have cow milk link somewhere (and dab repair).

Skimmed incoming links to Turkey intending the bird through here

Dead man's fingers: common name for 1 plant, 1 animal, 1 fungus and 1 algae. Any category for this?

Dabs to look at:

Quassia links: [4] [5] Quassia_amara Picrasma_excelsa [[6]] [[7]]

Mountain cranberry (see old version); MOSDAB ridiculous links Also, see Loosestrife; for more MOSDAB ridiculousness

Misspelling Bealia blocking base title for Bealia (genus). Attalea doesn't really seem to be used for anything but the palm

Seaweed: Gim (food)/Laver (seaweed)/Nori for edible Porphyra

Check incoming links to Tiliaceae Morinaceae, Valerianaceae Myrsinaceae Dipsacaceae Sterculiaceae Bombacaceae Asclepiadaceae Flacourtiaceae Aceraceae, Dicotyledon and APGIIIify (also revisit Burmanniaceae] to resplit Thismiaceae) Also, check [{Tracheophyta]]/Magnoliopsida for non APG

Balete tree/Banyan/Strangler fig: what's the difference?

Interesting: Navicella , Lobularia, Riedelia, Urceola, Ulvella, Stromatella,Romanoa, Coccobotrys, Sachsia, Tridens, Cystodium, Hystrix, Hugueninia (Tropicos say older fungal Cystodium is rejected). Algae/Fungi/Plant homonyms. How many more of these are recognized by Wikipedia? Taxonomic community needs to catch up, this should be a quick publication for somebody. Dianella is two animal genera (and a plant). Hahnia, two animal genera Schlechtendalia, two insect genera. Pogonodon and Pogonodon (gastropod). Animals Ortalis and Ortalis (ulidiid). Tetraptera is an "accepted" "nom. illeg." at Algaebase; alga needs a replacement name. Pyrausta quadrimaculalis (Dognin, 1908); unreplaced junior homonym

MOSDAB edit

Genus dab page for Passerina?

Special:WhatLinksHere/Oroxylum_indicum; dozens and dozens of foreign language common name redirects

  • Indigo snake (species); not found in North America/English speaking areas; two other indigo snake species are.
  • Struszia mccartneyi; monotypic paleo genus, but probably of most interest for the etymology of the specific epithet
  • Peristome covers mosses, pitcher plants, fungi and gastropods. Needs a split
  • Ortmannia; plant synonym attracting links for prehistoric sponge

Ok, nobody is searching for Batoidea. Ray is ambiguous. Ray (fish) is not a NATURAL link, but may be a natural search term

Scientific/vernacular name issues edit

Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mammals/Archive_6#Common_names Big picture: "Cordulegaster bidentata, also known as sombre goldenring or two-toothed goldenring is a member of the Cordulegastridae family." That lead does nothing for readers. It doesn't matter how the names are presented if the article offers no context. "The common macrotona (Macrotona australis) is found in southern and eastern Australia."

Another big picture "The western meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) is a medium-sized icterid bird...". You don't say "icterid" to a general audience. Using the term assumes at the very least that the audience understands the concept of zoological families and knows that "fooid" is a short hand way of referring to one (i.e it's short hand specialist jargon, not a "common name" to be preferred over the scientific name). regex $id for others like this. Birds are just Icterid, Mimid and Calidrid with 119 articles at $idae and 14 more $idae redirect (presumably monotypy).

Arctocephalus forsteri was moved to scientific name in an RM.

The Coiba spinetail, Cranioleuca dissita, is a Furnariid..." Maybe the word "bird" should be in there somewhere?

The southern carmine bee-eater (Merops nubicoides) (formerly carmine bee-eater) occurs across sub-equatorial Africa.

Some of the top scientific names on insects popular pages in March 2016. #16 Coccinellidae; ladybugs (US, not true bugs), ladybirds, (UK, not birds), lady beetles (3 out of 5 entomologists recommend this common name!!!). #12 Aedes aegypti; I've aware of this name, not aware of the common name name. #56 Aedes albopictus, I'm more aware of common name here. #24 Drosophila melanogaster; yeah. #30 Paraponera clavata; sounds familiar to me as scientific name, very good candidate for common name, people are still finding it by scientific name. Reduviidae; I've heard the name, no clue what they are, good common name and people get here anyway apparently. #37 Lepidoptera. That's the top 60 that aren't at common name.

Chatham penguin; 180 from the usual; Wikipedia appears to have invented a binomial for an undescribed species.

Talk:Procyon_(genus)/Archive_1#Requested_move; common raccoon moved to raccoon

Dislisazancik baligi; probably even harder to pronounce than the scientific name

Gerbillus vivax, what the holy hell.

Porcupine; Always Erethizon dorsatum in North American contexts. Better to have a dab page

Etheostoma obama, the spangled darter; if anybody is interested in this, it's because of the scientific name, not the common name

Pulsating xenid; scientific name is more commonly used and title is ambiguous. Can be any number of Xenia/Heteroxenia species. Most common form is "pulsing xenia" which most frequently refers to Xenia elongata.

Blue-headed partridge-dove; so, scientific studies have proved the English name to be incorrect. That is not how this works.

Sooty woodpecker, abandoned by IOC, needs disamiguation now. Wikipedia can't realistically rely on IOC common names that are regularly discarded.

Psychodidae, moth fly, drain fly mess

Myaka mess

Pleistocene New Zealand sea lion 10 Google hits as of 7/10/16, most based on paper. Is this a description or a common name (note to self, check paper)?

Saint Piran's Crab now back at scientific name, but holy hell. Facebook thread that hasn't been updated with a winner is source for a WP:COMMONNAME that gets 61 Google hits (as of 6/12/16). Apparently there's a tweet from the TV show confirming the winner, but I'm having trouble finding it.

Atolla jellyfish; likely anything in the genus Atolla, not a common name specifically for A. wyvilllei

[[Chamois]; Rupricapra split into two species, chamois article needs refactoring

Drongo; if family isn't monotypic, scientific name should be used (with "drongo" rescoped to cover Dicrurus)

See Category:Lampetra; brook lamprey and river lamprey both ambiguous for European and North American species

Shore plover recently unilaterally moved away from IOC name Western pygmy possum recently moved (via RM) away from MSW name

Lagopus not at Ptarmigan; bird common name policy falls apart above species level

Sri Lanka tree crab; no source for vernacular name, 4 google hits as of 6/5/2016

Golden cat SIA converted to DAB with images stripped out (I had nothing to do with image gallery). Does MOS:DAB support images at common names? Not in this edit.

Rose fish; golden redfish is FAO, not clear where current title come from (only in Fishbase as rosefish)

Gravenche; recently extinct European fish. RM to scientific name resulted inmove to another common name. How common is it?

Talk:Mbu_pufferfish; Wikipedians agreeing to make up a new common name

Talk:New Zealand rock wren some scuffle over common names with out invoking IOC for any of them

Wicker ancylid; recognizable?

Gazella erlangeri/Arabian gazelle; synonymy, extinction issues

Chathams galaxias/Chatham mudfish merging common names that seem to stem from whether it's a Galaxias.

Pike eel; commonality of this term seems to be from video games. Common pike conger is FAO name.

Purple tang/Yellowtail tang; should people commonly be aware that these different color descriptors are the same species?

Antilles monkey; extinct tribe (genera at "common" name as well)

Stewart shag. I fixed, but birds wanted to drop this into redirect hell (with navbox links). Fucking ridiculous. If we're going with IOC common name scheme, that needs maintenance. IOC vernacular names don't have stable correspondance to scientific names.

Rough oxeye and smooth oxeye are (citably) the same plant. The official common names provided to lay readers are unintuitively precise.

Crimson pitcherplant, Purple Trumpet-leaf (both cited) and White pitcher plant (not cited) are the same plant. Can common names disambiguate by color? Not here.

western yellowbelly racer; initial page title, now moved. No attempt made to check commoness of name ("western yellow-bellied racer" is more common)

Black-ray goby; made up for Wikipedia? Variations on this form exist (e.g. black-rayed shrimp goby) as do other common names. Where did our title come from?

Moves here an IOC update of common names. Loon and scal(e/y) throat are IOC reversals.

Entelodont FFS. Call em hell pigs or terminator pigs. No reason for anglicizing the scientific name.

Diplodocid, Protoceratopsid; common names for dinosaur families?

Dibatag; more recognizable than "Clarke's gazelle"?

Comment at Talk:Waigeo seaperch; let's do OR to create a third spelling beyond the two listed in Fishbase

As of 12/7/15, searching for "Tagetes minuta" or "huacatay" (along with "wakataya", one of two longstanding redirects) gives a knowledge graph with "Southern Cone Marigold" as the title. Where is Google pulling that from? It was the first listed common name, but it's not very common. Added more redirects, let's see what happens. Well now, for "African marigold" Google serves up a knowledge graph titled "Tagetes patula" with content pulled from Wikipedia's T. erecta. No redirect for the synonymous T. patula and both capitalization of African marigold pointed to T. erecta already. Serious glitch from Google.

Adelaide pygmy blue-tongue skink, not IUCN spelling, not sure this exact title is most common

Oenpelli python, not Reptile Database name, might be most common

Long-tail tentacle goby; 7 hits on Google as of 2/24/2016. Made up for Wikipedia?

Lytta vesicatoria (Spanish fly) Absolutely not.

Seychelles treefrog (IUCN name) has two different species incoming, Sooglossus sechellensis (Sechelles frog per ASW) and Tachycnemis seychellensis (Seychelles island frog, Seychelles tree frog per ASW).

Honey bee is a genus (cf. turkey, pig). People probably want the domesticate, but there doesn't seem to be an article for it (and it's probably shouldn't be treated as a taxon). At least the genus article has relevant info.

Long-tentacled anemone is not long tentacle anemone (the latter a popular aquarium species). Is the minor diff really working here?

blue crayfish; what's in the aquarium trade? is it this species? who knows?

howler monkey; cites MSW for common name, but no common name given. All the species drop "monkey" (e.g. brown howler), which is the part that makes the common name recognizable.

Tasmanian ruffe; ranges from South Africa to halfway across the Pacific. Association with Tasmania is tasmanica epithet.

Gig76 move fails: Kurdistan spotted newt, apparently invented for Wikipedia

Gig76 move fails: Atif's Lycian salamander, Karpathos Lycian salamander invented on Wikipedia (no "Lycian" in attested versions)

Gig76 move fails: Fazil Lycian salamander invented on Wikipedia

Gig76 move fails: Sonan's salamander may have been invented on Wikipedia

Gig76 move fails: Praslin's caecilian; made up for Wikipedia? Didn't exist in article prior to move, and Cooper's Black Caecilian is sourceable.

Gig76 move fails: Kato's salamander not in any reliable sources, seems to have originated on Wikipedia with Mishae. Gigemag move all the Hynobius species, how many of the common names are bogus? (also, see clouded salamander for disambiguation with H. nebulosus)

Gig76 move fails: Helmeted water toad ("Chilean toad" and "wide mouth toad" more common)

Gig76 move fails: Spiny-knee leaf frog only species moved in genus of 5 spp., where it is also the only extinct species known only from collections 70 years before "common" name was coined

Gig76 move fails: Hokkaidō frog; the article on the island is at Hokkaido

Gig76 moved Apristurus fedorovi (2790 Ghits) to the misspelled translation of the scientific name presented on Wikipedia, Federov's catshark (2850 Ghits), Planonasus cut and paste move to properly spelled translation, Fedorov's catshark (90 Ghits), Fishbase doesn't list an English common name, and IUCN calls it "stout catshark" (546 Ghits). Doesn't seem to be any evidence for "Fed(o/e)rov's catshark" originally outside of Wikipedia. Completely fucked now, and 2850 Ghits for the misspelling only reinforces why Wikipedia has no business pushing common names for poorly known species (less than 30 specimens for this one).

Gig76 moved to deceptive chameleon, and added the vernacular to the article. Not clear where this name comes from or if it existed before Wikipedia (EOL mentions it now, but may have scraped that from Wikipedia).

Gig76 moved to Rusty forest tree frog; no evidence for this spacing (vs. "treefrog"), multiple vernacular names at ASW

Gig76 moved to Masked rough-sided frog; no vernaculars at IUCN. ASW lists several, including Mr-sf, but cites a 1992 source for that vernacular. Hylarana laterimaculata re-recognized as species in 2003, and Mr-sf is associated with that species. Not Gig's fault, but not a good choice of common name.

Gig76 moved to Speckled moray eel, also a common name for Gymnothorax obesus

Pvmoutside moves of 20 Sep 2015. Inventing a whole bunch of new common names for Wikipedia for consistency's sake. See Melomys howi, Melomys cervinipes, Melomys cooperae, Melomys caurinus And another batch on 6 December 2015. Is MSW the standard for mammal names, or what? Moves are arguably more recognizable, and appear to be more common than previous titles (though not beating scientific names in Ghits). Also see batch from early 2015 Time to enlist mammals in going with what rodents decided (scientific name)? Some fish in April 2017 [8] (chunk 2 of 2, so see newer revision also)

Rose sea star SIA now, but was changed to discuss two different species over its history

Tuft-tailed spiny tree rat SIA for apparently MSW names differing in minor detail

Delicate salt flat mouse; not MSW name

Moth fly; common name for some pest species. Entire family? Umm..

Blotched snake eel is not the same as blotched snake-eel (but Blotched Snake-Eel and a whole mess of variant caps/hyphens go to the unhyphenated species. Is this helpful (note that b s-e was created from a redirect to b s e)? Fishbase does have the hyphen different, but really?

Bermuda hawk moved 2/14/15. 872 reported Ghits for "Burmuteo avivorus", 368 for "Bermuda hawk" on 2/14/15. Actual hits (no repeats, go to last page of results) 156 for "Bermuteo avivorus", 106 for "Bermuda hawk"

Spiny tree frog; two species per hatnote

Milton's titi; Milton's titi monkey in original description (and firetail titi monkey before specific epithet was assigned); Wikipedia article on other Callicebus are just titi, so was moved for consistency with Wikipedia (but not sourced to anything).

Spider-tailed horned viper. Where did this name come from? Not in IUCN, Reptile Database, or the 2006 paper describing the species. Wikipedia neologism?

Manchurian Black Water Snake; no source for this common name

Lesser sand eel, Raitt's sand eel; apparently Wikipedia inventions. Fishbase has "sandeel"/"sand-eel" (presumably because it's not really an eel). "Lesser sandeel" used for both these species, but FAO uses that name for the one we have at Raitt's.

New Zealand flathead; invented? just "flathead" on Fishbase, NZ Flathead seems to be Wikipedia mirrors

Zebra oto; "Zebra otocinclus" almost as common and doesn't have 10 years of Wikipedia's influence. Scientific name more popular still. Another titling decision from GrahamBould in 2006 (along with New Zealand flathead; editors titles may be fairly arbitrary).

escuericito recently moved, but how did this end up at a Spanish common name in the first place?

Picturesque dragonet; far more common as "psychedelic mandarin"; how was the current title chosen (Fishbase list the title as Micronesian English)

Spined dwarf mantis; only known from type specimen

Common barbel; recently moved from scientific name; common name is just "barbel" (but ambiguous); scientific name far more common than "common barbel". Fishbase doesn't record anything besides barbel.

Spotted mandarin; plant/animal dab

Traill's flycatcher good bird dab for obsolete common name

Nsenene move to Ruspolia baileyi (redirect intentionally not created at preasent)? Or split out a species article? Split best perhaps; sources that give a scientific name to the food use Ruspolia nitidula, perhaps incorrectly.

Hebrew Character only one Google hit for the moth (when searching without quotes) in the first 50 results (@22). should be a dab page, perhaps. And there are tons of moths with unnatural dab titles because the official common name is something crazy in the form "Article Noun" (e.g., The Brick, The Shark). Do a search for parenthetically dabbed leps.

Chinese Pheasant nice DAB/SIA (with photos!) for two species. Probably wouldn't survive MOSDAB in such an informative state. Clown wrasse has pictures too.

Carpenter ant/[[Camponotus]-article focuses on "carpenter" lifestyle. Not an article on the genus

AEECL's sportive lemur; see talk page comment, apparently no source for this name. A special translation of scientific name for Wikipedia? Two other "common" names listed for a Madagascar species described in 2006. Is there really a reason why this should have an English common name?

Sichuan bush warbler was started at Locustella changi and moved to common name per BIRDS. L. changii was split from Locustella mandelli (russet bush warbler). Presumably RBW should be DABish, but it looks like things are getting ahead of IOC here. See also Benguest bush warbler/Bradypterus seebohmi. And yes, that's a different genus and apparently there's now a Locustellidae even though the text of RBW calls it B. mandelli

Michoacan deer mouse two species with this name on IUCN redlist

Jackal non-taxon mammal article with taxobox

Common Rose redirect, turn to dab with plants mentioned?

Deathstalker scorpion. Multiple common names, article mentions that it is usually referred by the scientific name and that "deathstalker" also applies to other members of the genus. Very high number of page views for a scorpion article, but title happens to be shared with a film franchise and a comics character.

Pudu dab page; genus Pudu is at a common (English?) name with an accent (and covers two species that don't have their own articles)

Eastern spadefoot toad vs Eastern Spadefoot. This needs to get moved bad.

Blue or rippled triggerfish. OMG. Who thought that was a good idea?

Darter (disambiguation). Any reason why the birds should be the primary darter? Banded darter dab page

Scrub oak SIA needs some work

Armadillo; no biggy, but any incoming links from US topics can be dabbed to one species

Texas cichlid; Rio Grande cichlid per AFS/FAO

Cardinal (bird); incoming links crap, bad DAB page. Cardinal is Cardinalis cardinalis

Why isn't metaltail a redirect to Metallura? IOU doesn't regulate genus names? All Metallura are metaltails and vice versa.

Ceylon tiger; moved from Ceylon tiger (butterfly), entirely within the rules, but is recognizability well served?

Süsswassertang common name for undescribed species

Horse-fly where does that hyphen come from?

I created a link for Australian blue-tongued skink, as it was the only link to the species in the genus article, but it's not clear where it comes from (not in IUCN, Reptile Database or Australia Reptile Online Database)

Red imported fire ant; does anybody actually call it this? At least it's not native to any English speaking countries, so "imported" is reasonably accurate. It turns out ESA is now in the game of approving common names. Fire ant notes that not all Solenopsis are fire ants and not all fire ants are Solenopsis but uses the common name anyway.

Bonito vs Bonito (disambiguation); check incoming links to Bonito for Japanese topics (should redirect to Skipjack tuna)

Calabar python; RM failed. Multiple vernacular names, Calabar python isn't the most common (and it may not be a "python"). Retry RM

Devil fish vs. Devilfish

Caspian tubenose goby, Rize goby, Marine tubenose goby; Olaff moved to scientific name noting "no reference given for English name". Did Wikipedia make these up?

Doi Inthanon rock frog; unilaterally moved to common name after RM closed as no-consensus

Catcott, Edington and Chilton Moors; links prior to my edit. Otter, lapwing, snipe might be precise enough in the UK, but if scientific names are listed, you'll find the right article by using them. Marsh thistle is ambiguous in the UK vs. US.

Grayling (species)/Grayling (genus); and Grayling; stupid way to disambiguate assuming fish is the only grayling. But there's a similar genus/species pair of butterfly graylings as well as two more fish and another butterfly. Arctic grayling is a fish and a butterfly.

Formica; surprised the ant genus has the base title. Ought to be a dab (incoming links are certainly a mess)

Common echymipera (and relatives); "common" is actually a decent choice here (it's the most widely distributed and mostly sympatric with all the other echymipera), but "echymipera"? Apparently used to be (MSW???) a spiny bandicoot, but I guess that doesn't correspond to a taxon.

Common opossum; fantastically stupid choice of name. Central/South American species Didelphis marsupialis and still not more commonly used than scientific name. The common opossum in areas where people actually speak English is Virginia opossum. Mammalogists are usage is unambiguous, but there are plenty of hits for the North American species with "common opossum"-marsupialis. Not to mention the whole possum/opossum thing; zoologists may have it straightened out, and it may not be confusing for Aussies, but those titles will continue to attract links for the North America animal. edit: Total clusterf***. North American one was Didelphis marsupialis virginianus fifty years ago. "Common" probably should've followed virginianus in the split. And I was thinking (before I looked into it again) that D. marsupialis was the scientific name of the North American species. To the extent that anybody is searching by scientific name, might be good to hatnote at marsupialis for the North American animal.

Common shrew; European species, but there is a North American "common shrew" as well

Small frog; good luck searching Google for this species by the common name (though Wikipedia does pop up pretty high)

Complaints about choice of common name at : Talk:Small-spotted catshark, Talk:Copper_shark

Argonaut (animal); with Argonauta as the natural dismabiguation; WTF. Unnecessary dabbing to avoid the scientific name

Hilsa/Hilsa (genus)/Ilisha/Ilisha (genus) godawful mess (not solvable with scientitific name, but vernacular doesn't make it easier)

Water vole (North America); MSW has as North American water vole

Waitomo frog, Markham's frog; extinct in New Zealand possible prior to Maori arrival

Ngandong tiger; common name for Pleistocene extinction

Smelt (disambiguation); Smelt (fish) is ambiguous

Botrypus/Sceptridium/Botrychium. Who the hell are we following in recognizing Sceptridium? FNA lumps them all into Botrychium. USDA Plants has one exception in Sceptridium (database error?). TPL is gummed up with bad treatments of Tropicos records with minimal citation (lack of citations, ipso facto, indicates that Sceptridium isn't well recognized). Botrypus is paraphyletic if Sceptridium is recognized (and the phylogenetic study cited at Botrypus virginianus is a)misquoted (cite in wikipedia article confuses strictus and virginanianus) and b)seems to be using Botrypus names for convenience, not recommending their use).

Skunk; synonymous with Mephitidae? Are Asian stink badgers skunks? Also see polecat.

Japanese raccoon dog; SMccandlish merged tanuki here, on the grounds that "ICZN common names are used". MSW doesn't seem to list a common name for this subspecies. Utter rubbish. Tanuki is the common name.

Product/species splits: Mango/Mangifera indica/Mangifera, Guava/Psidium guajava, Mangosteen/Purple mangosteen, Durian/Durio/Durio zibethinus, Soursop/Annona muricata, Kiwifruit/Actinidia, Rudraksha/Elaeocarpus ganitrus, Starfruit/Averrhoa carambola, Passion fruit (fruit)/Passion fruit, Mandarin orange (fruit)/Mandarin orange, Peach (fruit)/Peach, [[Apricot (fruit)/Apricot

Sorting redirect like Actinomeris squarrosa (syn. of Verbesina coreopsis, redirects to Verbesina

Sand goby; see FishBase; US/AFS means one species, UK/FAO is another. Plenty more besides, so why did the UK end up with the vernacular?

Spanish mackerel; was a dab, now covers a tribe of fishes. Ony a few species in one genus are "Spanish mackerels"; maybe better to scope to genus or redab?

Is squirrel=Sciuridae the best sense? What are tree squirrels? and what about Sqiurrel (disambiguation)

D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago pogonomys, only Pogonomys that isn't a tree mouse or prehensile tailed rat. Very poorly known scientifically and vernacular manages to be even less concise than the not exactly short Pogonomys fergussoniensis

Pongid; paraphyletic wrt humans "great apes". Pongidae beats on G-hits. Pongid is a scientific nickname, not a common name.

Micrurus; redirect to coral snake, species taxoboxes are piping to coral snake. Awful

Pigeon; redirects to Columbidae, should be dab? Feral pigeon is a much more likely primary topic than the entire family.

  • Vyrezub; AFS/FAO preferred "kutum" (etmylogically Russian) is ambiguous. "Black sea roach" is definitely English but scarcely used (and there's another roach in the Black Sea). Current title is, according to Fishbase, Czech. WP:COMMONNAME?
  • Vobla; Russian name; FAO has as Caspian roach, no other English names on Fishbase or IUCN.

Sparrow; are "true sparrows" Passer or Passeridae? What about all the incoming links from New World places (is it possible some of them mean house sparrow?)

Barn-owl vs. Barn Owl.

Sea eagle 5 of 8 species aren't known as sea eagles. Love the talk page comment "why is there a picture of a bald eagle"? Why indeed, anon IP?

Costero; apparently the International Whaling Comission regulates cetacean common names; article is not at the name proposed to IWVC (and there are other common names)

"Sundaic mountain leopoldamys (Leopoldamys ciliatus) is a species of rodent from the family Muridae. It was formerly considered a subspecies of Edwards's long-tailed giant rat"

Bluestripe butterflyfish; who cares what the most commonly used orthography is ("bluestriped"); slap a common name on it, and it's good to go.

American silver perch; made up for Wikipedia? AFS has it as "silver perch", Fishbase doesn't list "American silver perch"

Caatinga Woodpecker "common name" derived from error in interpretating type locality; doesn't occur in caatinga. Good job ornithologists. Bare-eyed thrush, Dusky indigobird; ambiguous common names

Hipposideros rotalis RM to vernacular failed. Yay.

Black titi; monkey, but Cliftonia may have as good a claim to primary topic (more hits for plant on Google Books) California clapper rail move to Ridgway's rail; are common names really more stable than scientific?

Common tree frog, SE Asian species. Surely there are "common" tree frogs in Europe or North America.

Little Bronze-Cuckoo (Gould's sub-species). WTF is this??? WTH is Gould? Start an article on a taxa that is lumped by some authorities; go right ahead. Use COMMONNAME (and really?) to arrive at an insane title that helps nobody; was article creator trolling, or is this really a genuine attempt to conform with their understanding of COMMONNAME?

See reference at Snethlage's antpitta; birds are usually good about restricting vernacular to a species concept (and not a taxon per se), but spotted antpitta now has a s.s. and an s.l.

True toad; oh come on. Family Bufonidae is a scientific concept; toad is a folk taxon.

Trush (dab}/Thrush (bird)/True thrush. Hatnote at thrush (bird) to the dab page for other thrush birds. Jesus. Link Turdidae if that is what is meant. Dab repair links to Thrush (bird).

Red Snapper/Red snapper (fish) Oh dear. Dab link repair needed for the (fish) article (if it doesn't live in the Caribbean, it's not the link target). FDA interesting. (fish) link target is only acceptable as market name for that species. [9] "Common Name: The common name is the English version of the name established and commonly used by ichthyologists and other fishery experts to describe a specific species". Oh, this is really bad. id:Kakap, claim L. campechanus is in Indonesia. vi:Cá hồng says the same for Vietnam and has the distribution map for the European thing at el:Λυθρίνι (and Greek article in interwiki linked from Indonesian). And see Japanese snapper's discussion of izumidai (which currently redirect to L. campechanus). There's a dab at pargo and huachinango redirects; Spanish terms needs their own dabbing.

Rose fish nobody has a space in rosefish like that, and FAO and AFS names are different (and many other common names besides)

Redline pufferfish, apparently made up for Wikipedia. Nobody reliable (Fishbase/IUCN/etc.) list this as a common name. Aquarium enthusiasts call it "Cross River puffer(fish)".

Turkey (bird) dab repair

Pygmy devil ray little mix up between AFS and FAO. AFS the usual sense on Google, but the other p.d.r. was at the vernacular title.

Saiga antelope; saiga redirects there and is the scientific name and a perfectly cromulent common name. Wikipedia made up "saiga antelope", nobody calls it that. MSW3 has 2 species, Wikipedia is following a completely different taxonomic (both extant lineages in a single sp, where MSW3 has a separate sp. for one extant lineage and a extinct one)

Silver perch Fishbase has two species with this as the "preferred common name". Dover sole is AFS/FAO approved for Microstomus pacificus NOT the European species (FDA lists common name per AFS, but acceptable market name is simply "sole" ("common sole" is a market name that dabs the european species). Dwarf barb another with two in Fishbase. Bad "translations": Marginate dascyllus. Bad redirect target (needs redlink written for dab to exist) Chrysiptera unimaculata, One-spot demoiselle. "translation" from Russian: Colchic Khramulya. IUCN has offices in the UK?-well then, "colorless shiner" is clearly what folks in the UK call it [10]. Sharpnose worm eel/Scolecenchelys acutirostris; 7 google hits for "common name". Bonefish versus Bonefishes (& shortjaw bonefish isn't the FAO/most commonly used vernacular name). Flashlight fish; family parked at ambiguous common name. [this diff]; flashlight fish mislabelled (and tripod fish had problems elsewhere). How do "common names help the reader" when the common name links go to the wrong article? Lenok/Brachymystax lenok; is lenok a common name for the genus or the species? Recognizability: bombay duck, dragonet; does the lay person have any reason to suspect these are fishes (I'd guess dragonets as lizards or Pokemon)-common roach, yeah that's recognizable as a fish. Iridescent shark/Patagonian toothfish: umm, swai and Chilean sea bass; Iridescent shark is totally misleading, isn't used by FAO/AFS or even universally among aquarium enthusiasts (but see also basa fish for swai). Chinese high-fin banded shark isn't a shark. "Mosquitofish"; name for genus or one species (no good way to straighten this out though. Glass Catfish; many ambiguous meanings listed at article. Ilish; stupid back and forth moves about Hindi vs. Bengali common name. Golden Dorado; AFS/FAO call it "dorado"; not clear where nonambiguous name comes from. Request move for Dwarf catshark (ambiguous common name with one article already at scientific name)? Talk:Onefin catshark has somebody confuse by common name. Angelshark vs. Angel shark. Black cod:AFS/FAO use for the NZ species eclipsed by actual common use for North Pacific species, misleading to readers

English sole is native to eastern Pacific. Confusing.

Bombay duck bonus; AU seems to want to be able to sell Harpadon translucens under that name. Market names FTW.

Ouachita shiner is AFS/FAO, least commonly used. Than scientific name, than most commonly used is Ouchita mountain shiner via IUCN/USFWS. What would fish guidelines do here.

Vily; IUCN tried to hijack Malagasy common name for many common fishes and present it as an English name for an uncommon species.

Large-headed rice rat/Big-headed rice rat; ambiguity of each vernacular aside, large/big isn't a reasonable distinction in common English usage

Featherfin squeaker; great example of vernacular name failing WP:COMMONNAME (and is the vernacular recognizable? WTF is a squeaker?). Featherfin squeaker 3590 google results, Synodontis eupterus, 40,800, Synodontis euptera (misspelling) 8710, Featherfin catfish 15,100, Featherfin synodontis 3,110, and many more common names. Featherfin squeaker is AFS/FAO approved, but it's not the common name. Only Category:Synodontis at common name, though Upsidedown catfish might be a good common name (currently covers several species)

Flathead galaxias (New Zealand)/Flathead galaxias (Australia). Fishbase doesn't even have a common name for NZ species, not sure where this came from. Multiple common names for the Australian one, none FAO approved, but the Fishbase display name is Murray jollytail.

Karasu sha kuli, İznik shemaya (extinct), İskenderun shah kuli, Manyas shemaya, Georgian shemaya, Dislisazancik baligi. What is recognizable about "shah kuli"/"sha kuli" and "shemaya"? At least the scientific name is recognizable as a scientific name forr an organism. Shemaya sounds like an article of clothing. Per FishBase, Paskóviza is the English name used in the UK, and Beotian riffle dace is the English name used in Greece.

The most common referent of the term Paddlefish is Polyodon spathula, not Polyodontidae. Incoming links to paddlefish borked. Wiki titles for paddlefishes don't follow AFS/FAO, and American paddlefish is mostly popularized by Wiki. Shrimp/prawn another case where referent of the term as commonly used had nothing to do with how Wiki's linking it to taxa.

Flavescent Peacock, Nkhomo-benga Peacock European peacock; not peacocks Esther Grant's zebra, not a zebra

Black buffalo; not a buffalo

American cheetah-WP's been pushing this name forever, and Miracinonyx still beats it in google hits. First page of Google hits for either term includes paleo papers calling it a "false cheetah" or "cheetah-like cat". Is "American cheetah" properly [[Miracinonyx trumani]? Maybe.

Mesoplodont whale; crappy "translation" of Mesoplodon; "beaked whale" is element of common name for all but one species (and beaked whale article is something entirely different). Talk:Goat-antelope vs. Talk:Stag-moose (though s-m wasn't about common name per se). Talk:Sunda flying lemur

Gray dorcopsis, because everybody knows what a dorcopsis is. And that's totally what people in PNG call it when they see this not very common species (English is an official language there, and this is the English name, right?). And a dorcopsis is any animal that was included in dorcopsis (genus) when the "common name" was pulled out of some mammalogists ass. What a fucking mess.

Lycaon pictus; a rare case of a mammal move to scientific name

Little Mariana fruit bat/Guam flying fox: forked content on same species, lasted as separate articles for 8 years. Large-footed bat, not to be confused with Myotis macropus; gee, how could that be confusing (IUCN has Large-footed myotis for M. adversus, but Wikipedia says that's a common name for M. macropus; yep, no confusion here). Northern long-eared bat: common name for two species, but at least one of them isn't a myotis this time around, so Northern long-eared myotis works as a common name (and myotis is totally recognizable to the lay person). Long-legged bat; yet another one disambiguated with a myotis.

Links to Lepidoptera discussions (and some butterfly common name articles) at Talk:Apatura metis

Emperor (dragonfly); I guess you can get around capitalization with parentheses.

Mexican burrowing tree frog: genus Smilisca; some are Mexican tree frogs, some are burrowing tree frogs, and a plurality are cross-banded tree frogs

Siamese algae eater/Siamese flying fox; first page of Google results is basically all about how to figure out which fish is marketed under these names

Single specimen species: Combtooth lanternshark, Irrawaddy river shark, Sailback houndshark, White-clasper catshark, Sharpfin houndshark (2 specimens), Velvet catshark, White-tip catshark, Elongate carpet shark, Bighead catshark (3 specimens), Whitetip weasel shark, South China catshark, Snaggle-toothed_snake-eel, Kai stingaree (2 specimens), Spined dwarf mantis, pocket shark (2 specimens). Large-headed whiting. Togo mouse. Anonidium usambarense. Kinyongia asheorum (4 specimens). Xenochrophis bellulus (3 specimens). Andropogon scabriglumis. Chthonerpeton exile. Herpele multiplicata. Viola wikipedia. Ichthyophis humphreyi. Upper Laos caecilian. Caecilia inca. Gasteracantha gambeyi. Plecotus ariel. Rough whiting. Solanum tepuiense. Ravenia swartziana. Tecomanthe speciosa. Paraliparis membranaceus. Alloperla acadiana. Cyanea heluensis (a single living individual). Oeceoclades seychellarum (extinct; had a photo that was almost certainly bogus and a COPYVIO). Helianthus praetermissus, extinct. Bahiaxenos (family recently described from a single specimen) Nemamyxine elongata (two specimens) Mecodema chaiup, Arapaima mapae, Spongehead catshark (two specimens and a photo), Callechelys galapagensis (4 specimens), Noblella thiuni, Tyrannophryne (2 specimens) Luteuthis shuishi, Heliotropium macrodon (as Parabouchetia brasiliensis)

(Single specimen; single tibia); Astrochelys rogerbouri, not a substub. Had a press release? Madagascar species with a predictable timing of (pre-1500) extinction

Mangalore houndshark-where the hell did this name come from. Described 3 years ago, 128 google hits for "common" name on 3 June for 11 May created article, 7700 for scientific name. Not in fishbase or anywhere else really (2013 book apparently transferred this to Iago and invented a common name).

Turkey (bird) and Pig. Godawful mess. Essentially none of the incoming links intend the article subjects (Meleagris and Sus). Nobody is looking for the genus when they search for the name of a common domesticated species (granted, they may be interested in the wild/feral forms of the species and not soley the domesticate). Another stunning triumph for COMMONNAME. Pig was about the species prior to 15 August 2005.

Mink; just DAB it

Emerald aphyosemion

Prosopis cineraria: good illustration of common name issue; well known plant, many common names in many languages. USDA plants recommends "jand" (which is Punjabi)

[[11]], is this the most misleading piped link ever? Mock Orange (mulberry); now there's a helpful redirect title

On the flip side, Disa uniflora is rather defensive about the common name being the same as the scientific name

Category:Cardinals

New World blackbird existence prevents Icterid from getting something that actually a (not very commonly used) vernacular name.

  • Sardinian dhole or Sardinian fox? Not a dhole. Pleistocene extinction, where is our source for the common name?

Machaeridian; noun form from palaeontological taxon

Peruvian scorpionfish got 33 page views from 5/8/2016 to 8/5/2016. Scorpaena afuerae had 93, in spite of being a redirect during that period.

Grass skippers; plural OK?

Ocellated moray; G. saxicola is honeycomb moray now, Gymnothorax ocellatus is also called ocellated moray.

Hawaiian shortspine spurdog; invented for Wikipedia (split from shortspine spurdog, but describers call it Hawaiian spurdog)

Common Suriname toad Gigemag invention; sourceable name is Surinam toad

Spiny pocket mouse; Chaetodipus spinatus or Heteromys; who cares?

Cortez' hidden salamander Baja Verepaz' salamander; made up editor? check congeners

Hokkaidō frog; least common vernacular name with untypable character (Gigemag)

Metallic skink; should be a DAB?

VUB night frog; I don't see this taking off

Bumpy is a species of jellyfish?

Gastrotrich: a bunch of high level taxonomy articles at anglicized scientific name (see also various animal families at -id); not common names; most common name choices in {{tl|Animalia]] reasonable. Mollusca should be probably be at some spelling of common name if common name is the default. Gnathostomulid, Lophophore, Phoronid, (check giant tube worm/Pogonophora), Aschelminth, dubious at "common" name.

Trachypora coral; needs a species

  • Daggett's eagle back at "common" name as of 9/5/2016; what happens to page views?

Dendrelaphis sinharajensis dangers of using vernacular names recommended in original description. "Sinharaja tree snake" recommended. Asian species of Dendrelaphis are "bronzebacks". Australian species are "treesnakes". Don't seem to be any other "tree snakes" in the genus. Should be "Sinharaja bronzeback" for consistency if we're coining new names here. But all Dendrelaphis are at scientific name anyway.

Marmorkrebs, German name for crayfish subspecies

Baltic sculpin; no source, invented by Wikipedia?


  • Lyretail damselfish; Wikipedia invention? 235 Google results. Demoiselle is the common element in the vernacular names of the species
  • Tropical bottlenose whale; 12 beachings, 65 sightings, which is quite well known for a Ziphiid whale. Is there really a common name?

Sandgroper (insect); not the primary topic, might as well move to scientific name

  • Goniatids, informally Goniatites, are ammonoid cephalopods that form the Order Goniatiida
  • Mozambique forest tree frog; made up for Wikipedia (as was previous title); ASW has "Brown-backed Tree Frog", "Mozambique Tree Frog", "Mossambique Forest Treefrog"
  • Mexican dace; see history, was a dab page. IUCN uses name for multiple species
  • Brant (goose); move to what's apparently not the IOC name (brant goose)
  • On other note; Hollywood; should be dab page with metonym for motion picture industry
  • Kuhl's maskray; recent move, only 3 Google hits as of 1/20/17, all from Wikipedia. Name completely made up for Wikipedia
  • Sweeper; fish family not the primary topic; football position more likely
  • Phoenicopterus redirects to flamingo, one of three genera in family, the longest recognized and the only one without an article.


Tufted-tailed spiny tree-rat/Tuft-tailed spiny tree-rat (Tuft-tailed Spiny Tree Rat at IUCN).

Grey parrot/African grey parrot; what is the common name for this linguistically notable species? As of 5 August 2017, recently move to eliminate African, but Alex (parrot) is still "African grey".

  • Guenon is pretty defensive of it's own use of guenon as a title.

Klausewitz's garden eel made up for Wikipedia; Klausewitz' garden eel on Fishbase

  • Pine squirrel; no evidence this is a common name for the genus; more likely another common name for T. hudsonicus
  • Molelike mouse; Juscelinomys vulpinus apparently doesn't exist (confusion with J. talpinus), where did the "common" name come from? Delete the lot.
  • Staghorn coral; attracting links meant for the family? According to IUCN, distribution is western Atlantic, but has incoming links for other regions (and WoRMS lists some other places in the range as well, not clear what is going on).
  • Tome's spiny rat; created at scientific name, moved three more times for minor variant of vernacular
  • The herald (moth). Nobody is going to search like this. It's either The Herald or Scoliopteryx libatrix. Want to use the common name with a dab term? Fine, but no point in sentence casing it.
  • Ostrich; recently moved, now about the family, not the common species or the sole extant genus

Fowl is clade Galloanserae? Citation needed.

  • Neotropical silverside; not commonly used; this is an ambiguous vernacular name with a descriptive qualifier, not a name in itself.
  • Lutung; most species are called langurs
  • Bandwing; mostly one species known by this name?
  • Wattle-eye is a family, but "wattle-eye" applies to all species in a single genus of the family (said genus is using a scientific name title).
  • Trumpeter (bird); scientific name Psophiidae not mentioned in article body. Jesus. Birds gone off the rails.
  • Eastern caenolestid; appears to be invented for Wikipedia; not in IUCN, not in 2013 original description. Sangay shrew opossum on iNaturalist, EOL, Uniprot, mammaldiversity.org (only in photo caption there)
  • Deep-water ateleopid fish; yeah, it's listed as a common name at Fishbase, but it's really a description that applies to the whole family
  • Yawning (fish); described in 1975, also "Listless melamphid fish" at Fishbase. I bet page views will go up with move to scientific name title.
  • [12]; all redirects were mistakenly retargeted 26 Jan 2019; appears to have no effect on pageviews or Google knowledge graph searches for the redirects.
  • Heikegani; Japanese name; seems to be most commonly used, but is it recognizable?
  • Yellownape tripplefin; pretty sure this shows how little of a shit IUCN/Fishbase give about common names. Nobody spells it "tripple"
  • Pinworm (parasite); incoming links almost entirely to scientific name. Has hatnote for a different species.
  • Wreckfish is a family article, but the name really only refers to one species
  • hocicudo; moved, but had exactly 1!!! link aside from templates, and clearly Spanish, not English
  • European mantis; much wider distribution than Europe, better known as praying mantis (shared with other species).
  • DUKW, weedkiller, kneecap, Viagra, mu69

yellow-spotted salamander; should be a dab. People are most likely looking for the common American species, not the rare Chinese one

  • Butterworm; use vernacular name for larval form or adult form?
  • Thingodonta "colloquial" name for extinct marsupial order
  • Honey badger (the MSW name), was at ratel from 9 November, 2003 until March 22, 2008. The viral video was in 2011. I'd bet it would've been moved in 2005 if it was at the scientific name. Bad common name stuck around for way to long just because it wasn't the scientific name.
  • Ajwain refers to Trachyspermum and Plectranthus (and Google images dominated by Plectranthus)
  • Scallop/Pectinidae. Merged after a non-consensus RFC for merge. Merge poorly executed (no refinement to sections 6 years later; osprey levels of neglect). Tacked good content for Pectinidae onto a shit article for scallops.
  • Maui ‘alauahio; "There are two subspecies: the Lānaʻi ʻalauahio, P. montana montana, which occurred on Lānaʻi (extinct); and P. montana newtoni which occurs on Maui. The common name refers to both groups." No it doesn't. All the source are about the extant one, not the one that went extinct in 1937. Maui Nui ʻalauahio covers the entire species.
  • Kermit frog is what somebody would put into a search engine to find the Muppet. The article is at the scientific name, and the vernacular redirect doesn't get many hits, but is it really the primary topic?
  • Green terror; "A. stalsbergi (often considered the "true" green terror)" (stalsbergi was split out from rivulatus)


Bird Names for Birds notes that NASA (IAU?) has decided to deprecate Eskimo Nebula in favor of NGC 2392. Bold move overturned in RM at Talk:Eskimo Nebula

  • How the heck were perwinkle (mollusc) (and (gastropod)/(zoology)) pointing to one species since 2006?
  • Phylloxera is a good example of an article that deserves different quality ratings in the context of different projects; impact on wine is quite developed, but lacking basic biology content


Talk:Grogu#Requested_move_27_November_2020; common name was never used

  • Longtail stingray hatnote gives other species with this common name, and usage doesn't seem to clearly favor the one at the title
  • Hump-winged grig; how many people know what a grig is? hump-winged describes the family
  • Ice worm; only a couple of species in the genus live in ice
  • Lugworm discusses multiple species; should be a redirect to the genus, not something with a speciesbox
  • Cardinal beetle states it is a name for three species (the article is NOT about the "common cardinal beetle")
  • Liparis (fish) has species with common name "seasnail"; def not confusing


  • Gould's mouse; "If taxonomic authorities follow through with the change, the name P. gouldii will be retained as it was described first, but the species' common name will be changed to djoongari or Shark Bay mouse." That's really not how that works, but it is supported by the source (NHM!!)
  • Moorhen flea; parasitizes several species, native to South America. Moorhen is Eurasian; is it really the defining host?
  • Katrana; Malagasy name, not English
  • Mooneye; hijacking the name of a species for a (monogeneric) family. Turkey/pig/cardinal logic from 2008 Wikipedia
  • Careproctus merretti, 791 Google results as of 9.9.21. "Merret's snailfish", 209 results, "snakehead snailfish", 27 results. Vernacular names on Fishbase attributed to English spoken in Russia. Abyssal fish species (not sure if any similar species level articles have vernacular title).

White tern/Common white tern; no longer the only species in the white tern genus

  • Coffee borer beetle title since 2007; but coffee berry borer far more common (I moved to scientific name which out performs "borer beetle" but not "berry borer"); absolutely no effort is really ever made to determine which of multiple vernacular names is the supposed COMMONNAME
  • Ordinary eel; known from single specimen, poor vernacular name
  • Fallow deer; most incoming links could be refined to species
  • [[Levuana moth]; monotypic genus Levuana
  • Muilla lordsburgana, the Lordsburg noino (so named in original description, apparently coining "noino"). clever? yes. can it be explained to a layperson without invoking scientific names? no. and why not "cilrag"?
  • Sunflower/common sunflower; congratulations, Wikipedians have managed to introduce a fuck up of titles for a common species and it's genus (after recently unfucking long-standing fuckups with pig and chimpanzee) (but links to sunflower should be checked for intended Helianthus). And now I'm suspicious of wheat] (wheat flour is a common food ingredient)


  • Gekkota; unilaterally redirected several years after a merge discussion didn't support merging
  • Pine marten; redirects to European species, which most incoming links intend, but attracting links for North American species as well
  • Jackson lake springsnail; Lake should be capitalized, and P. robusta now includes two more species not found in Jackson Lake

Kahuzi swamp shrew; two different species, appears to be a mix up at IUCN

wader/shorebird/wader (American)

"Confusingly, only 68 of the 138 include "sparrow" in their name."

  • Cuja bola; just inverting the order of an older scientific name
  • Jamaican tangelo; interesting, apparently the PLU name, but probably better known by the trademark Ugli

ʻEua rail is that a diacritic to use for a subfossil species? (no common name given in 2005 description, name invented on Wikipedia in 2012?)

  • Northern goshawk; incoming links a mess after split of Eurasian/American species

"Flame hogfish"; 8 google results as of 14 Oct 2023. Name in original description is Tahitian striped hogfish (with 3 results)

  • Larch sawfly, Sirex woodwasp; maybe unambiguous where they are invasive, but ambiguous globally; any Sirex is a sirex woodwasp, and larch sawfly has a congener named laricina
  • Beewolf; has a bunch of other common names. Is this the most common?
  • Bromelworts a failed attempt? (mostly known from Muir?) to create an Anglo Saxon vernacular name for a family that has no business with an Anglo Saxon name.
  • Shao's moray (moved), possibly invented on Wikipedia. "Shao's moray eel" in original description. iNat has picked up the version without eel.

SIA/DAB edit

this diff] converting sia to dab, removing all project categorization and this one (remove dab from list page, though later edits link to dabs) more mosdab vandalism

OMG! Dictionary of Plant Names from 1896. Full of examples of the common name issues here: "invented by Turner" "a book name for..." "the common book name for..." "a vulgar name for" "Greenwood...perhaps a misprint for greenweed"

Cow's udder (and variants) redirecting to Solanum mammosum

Kapok tree is in bad need of disambiguation

Batis (plant); monotypic family Bataceae avoids parenthetical dab

Hog-nosed catfish was Hognosed brochis (per dubious source at FishBase), Planonasus moved because it's no longer a Brochis. 6 Google hits for "hog-nosed catfish" as of August 1, 2016 (all pre-dating/not scraping Wikipedia). Plantdrew (talk) 02:45, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

JFK; needs disambiguation of incoming links. Only encyclopedic usage is the film or airport. President should be written out. Lowercase jfk sufficient for Wiki searches for the lazy (and is anybody really using Wiki searches? search engines bring up the airport anyway).

Indica page views

Well developed little read articles edit

On the other hand

Legume automatic taxoboxes I'm not satisfied with edit

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