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Objection to the word "Burrowing"
If the experts use the term, I suppose it's not for us to judge, but why in the course of telling us readers that they don't make
burrows at all, but rather swim through the sand leaving no
burrows at all, does this article call what they do "burrowing"? I know that "burrowing" doesn't mean "making actual
burrows" all the time ("My spaniel burrowed his snout under my elbow, trying to wake me up"), but that kind of usage is clearly metaphorical and not the kind of usage you'd expect from an encyclopedia. How about "digging"?
Chrisrus (
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03:40, 19 July 2011 (UTC)reply
Requested move 18 February 2019
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A google search for "Southern marsupial mole" -wikipedia currently returns twice as many results as a search for Itjaritjari. Is there evidence that the latter is the common name? --
Ahecht (
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18:22, 18 February 2019 (UTC)reply
I reverted the move of
kakarratul and asked an admin if it could be bundled in with this one as a multi-move. I have no strong opinion about the naming of the species, but there is obviously no consensus for these changes.
Srnec (
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00:26, 20 February 2019 (UTC)reply
Here. He said it is too late to bundle them together, so a separate RM has to be opened for the northern species. Unless a clear consensus is obtained here.
Srnec (
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14:16, 20 February 2019 (UTC)reply
Oppose. The aboriginal name is also spelled "yitjarritjarri". Scientific name appears to be more commonly used than the current page title which is still more commonly used than either of the aboriginal names. While "Itjaritjari" may eventually become the more common vernacular name, it is not there yet (it's not sufficiently common at present to have results on Google Trends or NGrams, so I can't even tell if it is becoming more common in recent years). Page should really be at the scientific name, as the "name that is most commonly used in reliable sources" (WP:COMMONNAME), and Wikipedia should give up on this hair-brained scheme to pick one of any number of different vernacular names as a unambiguous page title, and use the naming scheme that has served well for the last 250 years (i.e. Linnean binomials). Redirects are perfectly adequate to get readers to article using scientific name titles.
Plantdrew (
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19:49, 25 February 2019 (UTC)reply
@
Plantdrew: The group may have begun forest floor dwellers, doing much the same thing, then made the transition to sand. Bloody amazing really. Support that solution, the trend for misinterpreting COMMONNAME has had its time: all the names get context instead of vox pop elevation to The One True Name (no capitals, except …) and the page is defined by our sources. Yet some do not like solutions, and know they are right.
cygnis insignis20:45, 25 February 2019 (UTC)reply
Rreagan007, apart from the authority that says otherwise, I may of course be misinterpreting it and you could show how. What should the title be? Would you like to learn another interesting fact about this animal that isn't in the article yet?
cygnis insignis08:48, 1 March 2019 (UTC)reply
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