Talk:Teeswater sheep
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Requested move 25 August 2014
[edit]- 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. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the move request was: no move: no consensus in 58 days, last message was 14 days ago Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:16, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
Teeswater sheep → Teeswater (sheep) – Revert undiscussed move, see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive847 #Undiscussed page moves by SMcCandlish. I'd hoped someone else might deal with this, but it seems not. There are a lot of these (this is just a first instalment), so please excuse (and ignore) any listings that are for any reason incorrect. Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 16:10, 9 September 2014 (UTC) Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:34, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
- This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:06, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
- Sakiz sheep → Sakiz (sheep)
- Sarda sheep → Sarda (sheep)
- Sciara sheep → Sciara (sheep)
- Tacola sheep → Tacola (sheep)
- Ruda sheep → Ruda (sheep)
- Rosset sheep → Rosset (sheep)
- Priangan sheep → Priangan (sheep)
- Romanov sheep → Romanov (sheep)
- Perendale → Perendale (sheep)
- Polypay → Polypay (sheep)
- Ouessant sheep → Ouessant (sheep)
- Pelibüey sheep → Pelibüey (sheep)
- Montadale sheep → Montadale (sheep)
- Morada Nova sheep → Morada Nova (sheep)
- Massese sheep → Massese (sheep)
- Meatmaster → Meatmaster (sheep)
- Laticauda sheep → Laticauda (sheep)
- Kerry Hill sheep → Kerry Hill (sheep)
- Lamon sheep → Lamon (sheep)
- Katahdin sheep → Katahdin (sheep)
- Île-de-France sheep → Île-de-France (sheep)
- Drysdale sheep → Drysdale (sheep)
- East Friesian sheep → East Friesian (sheep)
- English Leicester sheep → English Leicester (sheep)
- Faroes sheep → Faroes (sheep)
- Finnish Dorset sheep → Finnish Dorset (sheep)
- Danish Landrace sheep → Danish Landrace (sheep)
- Dorper → Dorper (sheep)
- Damara sheep → Damara (sheep)
- Dagliç sheep → Dagliç (sheep)
- Coopworth sheep → Coopworth (sheep)
- Ciuta sheep → Ciuta (sheep)
- Chios sheep → Chios (sheep)
- Border Leicester sheep → Border Leicester (sheep)
- Cameroon sheep → Cameroon (sheep)
- Castlemilk Moorit → Castlemilk Moorit (sheep)
- Charollais sheep → Charollais (sheep)
- Bleu du Maine → Bleu du Maine (sheep)
- Bergamasca sheep → Bergamasca (sheep)
- Baluchi sheep → Baluchi (sheep)
- Beltex → Beltex (sheep)
- Africana sheep → Africana (sheep)
- Alai sheep → Alai (sheep)
- Altay sheep → Altay (sheep)
- Arabi sheep → Arabi (sheep)
- Assaf sheep → Assaf (sheep)
- Balkhi sheep → Balkhi (sheep)
- Acıpayam sheep → Acıpayam (sheep)
- Adal sheep → Adal (sheep)
- Andalusian chicken → Andalusian (chicken)
- Philippine Native chicken → Philippine Native Chicken
- Pekin chicken → Pekin (chicken)
- Pyncheon chicken → Pyncheon (chicken)
- Sebright chicken → Sebright (chicken)
- Shamo chicken → Shamo (chicken)
- Sicilian Buttercup chicken → Sicilian Buttercup (chicken)
- Sumatra chicken → Sumatra (chicken)
- Sultan chicken → Sultan (chicken)
- Orloff chicken → Orloff (chicken)
- Winnebago chicken → Winnebago (chicken)
- Yokohama chicken → Yokohama (chicken)
- Ancona chicken → Ancona (chicken)
- Marsh Daisy chicken → Marsh Daisy (chicken)
- Nankin chicken → Nankin (chicken)
- Orpington chicken → Orpington (chicken)
- Brahma chicken → Brahma (chicken)
- Laughing chicken → Laughing Chicken
- Java chicken → Java (chicken)
- La Flèche chicken → La Flèche (chicken)
- Ixworth chicken → Ixworth (chicken)
- Houdan chicken → Houdan (chicken)
- Dorking chicken → Dorking (chicken)
- Faverolles chicken → Faverolles (chicken)
- Friesian chicken → Friesian (chicken)
- Hamburg chicken → Hamburg (chicken)
- Cochin chicken → Cochin (chicken)
- Cornish chicken → Cornish (chicken)
- Crèvecœur chicken → Crèvecœur (chicken)
- Burmese chicken → Burmese (chicken)
- American Game chicken → American Game (chicken)
- Lacombe pig → Lacombe (pig)
- Danish Landrace pig → Danish Landrace (pig)
- Estonian Bacon pig → Estonian Bacon
- Gascon pig → Gascon (pig)
- Kakhetian pig → Kakhetian (pig)
- Swabian-Hall swine → Swabian-Hall Swine
- Danish Protest pig → Danish Protest Pig
- Sarda pig → Sarda (pig)
- Aksai Black Pied pig → Aksai Black Pied (pig)
- Casertana pig → Casertana (pig)
- Semirechye pig → Semirechye (pig)
- Jeju Black pig → Jeju Black Pig
- Latvian White pig → Latvian White (pig)
- Lithuanian White pig → Lithuanian White (pig)
- Auckland Island pig → Auckland Island Pig
- Arapawa pig → Arapawa Pig
- Forest Mountain pig → Forest Mountain
Survey
[edit]- Some of those that would be left without a disambiguator, are a big negatory :-
- Forest Mountain pig → Forest Mountain :: Forest Mountain is primarily a forested mountain.
- Estonian Bacon pig → Estonian Bacon :: Estonian Bacon is primarily (killed and butchered) bacon from Estonia.
- Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:50, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
- different suggestions:
- Forest Mountain pig → New Lesogor (FAO; the altname fits better, especially compared to the native names are Novaya Lesogornaya and Lesogornaya Porodnaya Gruppa – Novaya is New; Lesogornaya may be the mountain forest or forest in the mountains...[1])
- Estonian Bacon pig → Estonian Landrace (altname per FAO) --PigeonIP (talk) 19:19, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
- different suggestions:
Oppose. Natural disambiguation is preferred to parenthetical, per WP:NATURAL. A quick gbook search gives me, "Teeswater sheep were also reported as being introduced in the early years", a drawing of "The Teeswater sheep", a "Teeswater Sheep" index entry in Counting Sheep (2014), and many more such examples. I assume the situation is similar for the other sheep articles. Clodhopper Deluxe (talk) 01:26, 12 September 2014 (UTC)Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kauffner
- There are several radically different, even contradictory, types of move proposals here:
- Teeswater sheep → Teeswater (sheep) and the majority of the other cases: Oppose per WP:NATURAL. There's no reason at all to force unnatural disambiguation on these names. It's completely routine to disambiguate, in everyday speech and writing, everywhere, by everyone, in the form of adding the species name after the breed name, across the board, for all species of domestic animals. If you have a Cymric cat, you can reasonably say "I have a Cymric" to someone who knows cat breeds, and write that in a column you're submitting to a cat publciation, but you automatically use "I have a Cymic cat" any time you're addressing an audience that isn't necessarily going to know what you're talking about, which is always the case with Wikipedia when the name is ambiguous without it. The only exceptions to this practice are a) when the species name is already included in the formal breed name (e.g. American Quarter Horse, or b) when some alternative, unambiguous word or suffix for the species name is part of the formal breed name (e.g. Hound, -hound or -hund for various dog breeds). Keeping these at Teeswater sheep, etc., will be consistent with almost all other animal breed article names (some dog ones are an exception, and need to be examined as do a few other random stragglers not addressed here. A handful of parenthetically disambiguated breeds not mentioned here also need to move to natural disambiguation, e.g. Aspromonte (goat).
- Beltex, Bleu du Maine, Castlemilk Moorit, Dorper, Meatmaster, Perendale, Polypay → Beltex (sheep), etc. – Oppose per WP:DAB. These are all unique, made-up names for the breeds, and are not ambiguous with anything. Adding a disambiguator of any kind serves no purpose (not even one of the ones contemplated at Wikipedia talk:Article titles#Proposal/question: Should we disambiguate year-range work titles? and the ensuing, lengthy discussion about why we might sometimes (as with US place names) want to "pre-disambiguate". Nothing supports these renames at all. They would also directly conflict with naming in all other domestic breed categories; see, e.g. Africanis, Aidi, Azawakh; Burmilla, Chaussie, Peterbald; Abtenauer, Akhal-Teke, Appaloosa; Donek, Frillback; Amerifax, Droughtmaster, Square Meater, etc., etc., etc.. There are hundreds of breed articles at undisambiguated names because, like these, they're not ambiguous. Update: See WP:PRECISION policy, which specifically addresses this. While it enumerates a handful of supposed exceptions, this is not one of them, and even those are increasingly considered a WP:LOCALCONSENSUS problem. See User:JHunterJ#Local consensus vs. precision for a list of previous discussions of similar cases, which consistently close with a result to follow WP:PRECISION. Concession: One can make the argument that Meatmaster cattle would be more consistent with other cattle names, and that could be true. I'm just skeptical that consistency of that particular sort trumps brevity, under the WP:CRITERIA, etc. Our main consistency problem is just radically different treatment of very similar names, thus the large number of breed RMs I launched today (which avoid the parenthetical stuff at issue in this RM).
- Danish Protest pig, Laughing chicken, Philippine Native chicken → Danish Protest Pig (i.e., capitalize the species), etc. – Oppose by default per MOS:LIFE and per the WP:BIRDCON precedent, but tentative support if article-by-article, compelling reliable-source research proves that the WP:COMMONNAME in general-audience sources uniformly appends the species name as part of the breed name, which seems fairly likely in some of these exact cases, because of their ambiguity. This is consistent with other, similar article titles (some of which were already arrived at through RM discussions) not raised by nom here: Basque Mountain Horse, Norwegian Forest Cat, Bavarian Mountain Hound, Formosan Mountain Dog, etc. Failing that, then oppose per MOS:CAPS: If sources are not consistent on both including the species and capitalizing it (when the source also capitalizes "Protest", "Laughing" and "Native"), then retain the lower-case, natural disambiguation. However, this is maybe the wrong venue: Moves this particular and nuanced should probably be discussed individually on their own talk pages, not buried in a mass move that raises different issues in all other cases. Note also that nominator is being self-contradictory here, urging in all other cases for the form Danish Protest (pig) [which is contraindicated for other reasons]. Added note: I found the curious counter-cases of Georgian mountain cattle and Harz Red mountain cattle; they do seem to be real breeds, not landraces, so if we're going to capitalize breeds then "Mountain" should get that treatment here, whethe rto capitalize "Cattle" in those cases is the same analysis required for Danish Protest pig vs. Danish Protest Pig.
- Estonian Bacon pig → Estonian Bacon, and Forest Mountain pig → Forest Mountain – Oppose per WP:DAB and WP:COMMONSENSE; these are obviously too ambiguous to use for animal breed article titles on Wikipedia. Such names are only given in short, speciesless form when not ambiguous (see examples under "Beltex", above). Nom is also self-contradicting again, otherwise insisting on names of the form Estonian Bacon (pig). Such proposals also contradict already-established animal breed natural disambiguation patterns, e.g. Norwegian Forest Cat, etc., etc. I would potentially support alternative moves to Estonian Bacon Pig and Forest Mountain Pig (capitalized) for consistency, but only under the same reliably-sourced WP:COMMONNAME analysis on a per-article basis as in the above point regarding Danish Protest pig, etc. These seem notably less likely to make that cut, and see many similar names that do not, e.g. San Clemente Island goat, Black Pied Dairy cattle.
- Arapawa pig, Jeju Black pig, Morada Nova sheep, and Swabian-Hall swine → Arapawa Pig, etc. (i.e., capitalized species again) – Oppose. No rationale for such moves at all, as the pattern is evidently the same as that of, respectively, Teeswater sheep, Kerry Hill sheep, and hyphenated cases not mentioned in the list, like Chistopolian High-flying pigeon, Ural Striped-maned pigeon. Again, nom self-contradictorily wants to move the others to Teeswater (sheep), Kerry Hill (sheep), etc. As in the last case, if and only if the overwhelming preponderance of evidence gives one of these breeds' names with "Sheep" in it, then I'd support that move, but that's an RM for that article's own talk page. NB: This same sort of analysis needs to be done on some other animal breed article names, e.g. Chinese Crested Dog. What we have here are enthusiasts with different sensibilities insisting contrarily that "the X breed's real name(TM) is the Foo Bar Bandersnatch" while others are saying "the X breed's true name(R) is the Foo Bar, and only the ignorant would add the species, 'Bandersnatch' at the end, much less capitalize it as part of the breed name proper", and both are convinced of their righteousness in this incredibly important matter, with nom seemingly trying to take both sides at once in different cases for no apparent reason other than a reflexive urge to revert all efforts to bring some rhyme and reason to breed article names. There is arguably a clear case for our readers (why we're here, remember), to use names like Carpathian Shepherd Dog and Norwegian Forest Cat because without the species name they're confusing (seeming to be about a regional occupation and a woodland, respectively). No such case can be made for "Morada Nova Sheep" and these other examples.
- American Game chicken → American Game (chicken) – Oppose per all of the reasoning that already settled this at recent RMs of Australian Pit Game fowl and West African Dwarf goat, and thus per WP:FORUMSHOP. See also Continental Giant rabbit. NB: In nom's clouding of this RM with references to past irrelevant discussions, they conveniently didn't happen to mention these directly relevant ones.
- Auckland Island pig → Auckland Island Pig – Oppose per MOS:CAPS and almost all other animal breed article names of this sort (see already cited examples, and others from Amsterdam Island cattle, Channel Island cattle and Enderby Island cattle to Cumberland Island horse; the format <Placename> <Landfeature> <species> is a not uncommon type of breed article title, and <Placename> <Whatever> <species> is the #2 most common form after <Placename> <species>). This is the exact same case as Kerry Hill sheep, and an example of the nom self-contradicting again, going for "Auckland Island (pig)" format otherwise. The species, as noted above under Danish Protest pig, is not capitalized unless it is always included as part of the breed name in reliable sources due to the ambiguity without it. This never seems to be the case when the form is <Placename> <species> (including <Placename> <Landfeature> <species>) that is a real place not a type of place (as in "Norwegian Forest Cat"), since everyone knows that "I have a <Placename>" cannot possibly refer to the possession of an entire country, while "I have a Norwegian Forest" could actually refer to land ownership and "I have an American Quarter" to coinage. "Mountain" when referring to a specific mountain might be handled like "Island", but I'm not sure we have such a case.
- Any of the chicken cases could be moved to "<Whatever> fowl" (note the lower case) in theory, but only if a preponderance of reliable sources call them that. "Fowl" seems to be conventional only for a small number of breeds. Regardless, that hasn't been proposed here, and should be a case-by-case rename if necessary on specific article talk pages.
- It's possible that I've missed some other, differentiatable case, but this should be clear enough to separate the majority of these into distinguishable groups that others can address by number.
— SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 15:43, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
- Oppose – the existing titles appear to be mostly better, which I presume was SMcCandlish's intent in moving them (I'm not so much a fan of his point 2 that applies to a few, but I agree on the rest). The rationale for these proposed moves is unclear; it seems to be just that they were previously moved by SMcCandlish. If there are specific ones that share a rationale, they should be proposed as a smaller set so the point can be discussed. Dicklyon (talk) 21:03, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
- I've clarified the policy and precedent basis for #2, with an
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insertion. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 23:28, 14 September 2014 (UTC)- Well, I'm not suggesting that Beltex etc. are ambiguous, or need disambiguation; rather, that Beltex sheep would be more precise and recognizable for what it is. A win on consistency, too. But that's a discussion for elsewhere, if such a move gets proposed. Dicklyon (talk) 23:45, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
- @Dicklyon: Understood, but I strongly suspect it'll be a worm-can. The dogs project hate this idea with unleashed passion. When I moved some of "their" articles to names in this format because were already ambiguous and parenthetically disambiguated for no reason, they reflexively and dismissively reverted them all here. The blatantly self-contradictory nom wrote "Parenthetical disambiguation was used when natural disambiguation is not possible in ALL dog articles" then proposed moving every case like Armant dog back to Armant (dog), despite that being the exact opposite, and using parenthetical disambiguation when natural disambiguation was clearly possible and already being used. No one commented in that RM, hosted out of main talk space on their wikiproject page, except the project's own participants. I didn't see it in time to advertise it to WT:AT, WP:NCFAUNA and WT:MOS where people with a more generalized view might have been interested in commenting. Someone may try to use that micro-consensus as evidentiary of something, but it was just a status quo ante reversion, not a discussion on the WT:AT merits, which would surely have stuck with natural disambiguation. Anyway, if at this point in time, anyone tried to move a Beltex-like dog name, e.g., Briard to Briard dog with this sort of "pre-disambiguation" idea, it'd be a holy war. >;-) — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 09:06, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
- Well, I'm not suggesting that Beltex etc. are ambiguous, or need disambiguation; rather, that Beltex sheep would be more precise and recognizable for what it is. A win on consistency, too. But that's a discussion for elsewhere, if such a move gets proposed. Dicklyon (talk) 23:45, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
- I've clarified the policy and precedent basis for #2, with an
- Oppose. Some of these might be reasonable moves, but they should be examined on a case by case basis, and not as a mass-move. While consistency is good... it can be taken too far (hmmm... perhaps WP:AT needs to address the issue of over-consistency?) A consistent title format that works for dog articles may not work for sheep articles, and vise versa. Flexibility is required. Blueboar (talk) 22:16, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
- Support:
- "Philippine Native chicken" to Philippine Native Chicken,
- "Swabian-Hall swine" to Swabian-Hall Swine,
- "Danish Protest pig" to Danish Protest Pig,
- "Arapawa pig" to Arapawa Pig and
- "Forest Mountain pig" to Forest Mountain Pig as per WP:UCRN.
- Proud capitalized Chicken and Pigs one and all :)
- Weak oppose of all replacement of parenthesis as unnecessary and in contravention to presentation of similar terms in other locations ... and yet disambiguation is still provided so the presence of brackets or not may, arguably, be that big of a deal. A sheep is still a sheep whether or not it has been placed in a pen. I think consideration may also be given to the writers of the articles.
- However I disagree with the principle of rejecting mass moves. Wikipedia should, arguably, operate on the principles of consistency and mass moves may, arguably, offer the best way to consideration of the full implications of a proposed raft of changes.
- Gregkaye ✍♪ 11:13, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
- My view is that mass moves should be taken to the project pages, not individual breed articles, particularly where there is more than one animal involved; for example, people working on cattle articles may not be watchlisting sheep, yet these RMs affect both projects. There are many more of these out there, and they affect multiple projects. Montanabw(talk) 18:49, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
- OPPOSE TIMES 97: OMG!! what a mess. So many want to move articles and nobody to work on them. I oppose a blanket move of 97 articles because it is too much to be fair to the articles.
- I am amazed, appalled, and shocked. I just can not imagine why we would want to take any article name and put a part of it in parenthesis to prove what? It does not enhance the article and it is unnecessary. Make it concise so short but then because it is now vague add a word in parenthesis that otherwise is just fine being included in the name.
- I was convinced we need to be more than vague when I randomly chose Polish Helmet (just picked one I saw) to check out in references. I looked at 5 pages on Google and 5 pages on Bing (just to see) that totaled 120 hits that I looked at individually. What I found was amazing in that I saw and learned an unimaginable amount of information about the "Polish M50", the "Used Polish Military Steel Helmet", the "Polish WZ 93 Kevlar Helmet", the "Poland Wz67 - Brendon's Helmets", how to buy, sell, and everything one could imagine concerning helmets one would wear.
- I did find three Wikipedia entries and "Polish Helmet Or Kryska Polska, A Breed Of Fancy Pigeon" that was on page two, one reference on page four and none on page five out of 120 hits. If you want to learn about helmets you wear then look up "Polish Helmet" but if you are interested in pigeons you need to add that to the search. This one needs to be fixed bad but to add parenthesis "Polish Helmet (pigeon)" just to add clarity that we are not exploring a helmet one wears? "Polish Helmet is a very short stub as is Helmet pigeon (parent), that need to be merged and forget parenthesis. Then "Humburg Helmet", the "Dutch Helmet", if they are plain-headed or shell-crested, as well as relations to the Nun pigeon can be explored in a good article. That would take editors wanting article improvements and not just moving a bunch of articles just to do it. I know pigeons are not the subject of sheep, chickens, or pigs but they all are (or will be) subject to indiscriminate move requests and many for absolutely no reason. Take it to the project pages!! You have got to be kidding me. One should always want to have the coyote guard the chicken right? Works great if you are not a chicken. Otr500 (talk) 03:58, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
Discussion
[edit]Older discussion
[edit]@Justlettersandnumbers, while SMcCandlish is currently banned from making undiscussed moves (as of July 15) these moves were done prior to his ban. Would you object to having a centralized move discussion for all the sheep articles? It looks to me that some editors might support these moves. It's a lot of work for an admin to do a mass revert and then have to move all the articles back later per discussion, if that turns out to be the result. Why not have the discussion first? The issues in this set of articles don't even involve capitalization (as in Talk:American Paint Horse#Requested moves). It's only a question of natural versus parenthesized disambiguation. EdJohnston (talk) 15:01, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
- I'd also endorse this suggestion, with the obvious caveat that if the bulk RM ends as no consensus it will default to moving back to the previous titles. Jenks24 (talk) 15:17, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
- Works for me, with the caveat that it be a bulk RM on the merits, not a WP:POINTy "move these back because SMcCandlish didn't get consensus first" pseudo-RM. Given still-ongoing behavior by Justlettersandnumbers, I have some concerns. It'll go to full RM or RFC regardless, because the renames made sense under policy, others agree with them, and they tend to stick at natural disambiguation when these do go to full discussions (see, e.g., recent RMs of Australian Pit Game fowl and West African Dwarf goat, and many more over the years, like most horse breed articles), so there's no point in pre-emptively moving them around again. There's no actual evidence that the names they're at now are controversial (no one seems to think so but Justlettersandnumbers); rather, the controversy was the scale at which I was making such moves without a prior consensus discussion about them. The discussion is overdue; I expected it to happen a month ago. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 16:26, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
Thank you, EdJohnston and Jenks24, for your comments. Points in order:
- I'm truly sorry about the amount of work involved, for everyone, whatever happens. I suppose that is more or less a definition of WP:DISRUPTIVE editing - doing stuff that takes other people hours of work to sort out. I know I've already spent hours on this that I'd much rather have spent doing something else. There are hundreds of articles affected.
- I don't see that another discussion is necessarily required for most of these; we've already had two, this about reversing McCandlish's undiscussed moves to "natural" disambiguation - this covers, e.g., all the Italian sheep breeds above, without exception; and this about reversing his undiscussed lower-casing of the animal name when it is part of the breed name, as in Auckland Island Pig above. Both ended with restoration of the status quo ante.
- There are, I think, two other types of incompetent move in the complete list: the addition of an unnecessary "disambiguation" to a title that requires none, such as adding "chicken" to White-faced Black Spanish; and messing about with hyphenation against all the evidence in the sources, such as Naked-neck chicken when even in the hyphen-crazy UK it is called Naked Neck. Neither should require discussion to revert.
- That said, I'd like those who will (or won't) have to do the hard work to make the call. If you don't mind, Ed? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:38, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
How about we open a formal move discussion for the first four sheep moves, and leave a note in the RM pointing to the complete list of sheep that SMM moved. That way if the discussion finds consensus to move back the first four, then an admin might go ahead and do the rest of the list as 'reverts of undiscussed moves'. That reduces the work involved but still gives a chance for consensus to be formed. EdJohnston (talk) 20:22, 25 August 2014 (UTC)- Removed my earlier suggestion. This is now a regular move discussion for all the animals in the above list. It is a proposal (by User:Justlettersandnumbers) to put all of them back to their original titles. EdJohnston (talk) 02:16, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
- Some notes regarding Justlettersandnumbers's invective and assumptions:
List of observations about this RM
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{{hatnote: On item on this list was wrong - Justlettersandnumbers (Jlan) didn't list this mass, mess RM here personally, but only at RM; it was moved here administratively as a relisting of a contested "noncontroversial" proposal. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 00:41, 18 September 2014 (UTC)}}
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- SMcCandlish, you're being unfair to Justlettersandnumbers in some of the above comments. Look at the page history of this talk page, Anthony Appleyard copy-pasted RM/TR request here to start this discussion. And although that's the standard practice for technical requests that are contested, it has made rather a mess of things here because of the large number of articles in question and the fact the nomination is so clearly intended as a technical request, not a full RM. But that's not Justlettersandnumbers' fault. And regarding restoration of the status quo ante, that is policy – see the article titling bullet of WP:NOCONSENSUS. Jenks24 (talk) 09:45, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
- Fair enough. I'll just
rescindcollapse-box the entire thing, rather than pick at the details, since it's probably not constructive anyway. Other than to note "This is now a regular move discussion for all the animals in the above list. It is a proposal (by User:Justlettersandnumbers) to put all of them back to their original titles", per EdJohnson, so I'm not the only one observing that this RM was in fact listed as a pointless mass-move request despite that being what we were going to not do. WP:NOCONSENSUS applies when there's a legitimate dispute. "Oppose everything SMcCandlish does no matter what it is" isn't one, meanwhile the names have stood with no troubles of any kind arising from them for months now (=new consensus, I'd say), and we all already had an agreement that we'd be forgoing the status quo ante reversion stuff as liable to be counterproductive. It's therefore disruptive and WP:LAME to have a huge pile of demanded status quo ante reverts here. I hope that the analysis and grouping of them I've done is enough that this mess can proceed in an orderly fashion. Meanwhile, I'm proceeding with other RMs, while avoiding any that would move "Foo (bar)" breed names to "Foo bar" ones, pending the outcome of this one. The upcoming ones I'm about to list are of a different nature, and properly grouped into separate multi-page RMs that focus on moves of the same exact kind. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 12:08, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
- Fair enough. I'll just
Comment. As must be obvious from the initial remarks in this discussion, this was not originally intended to be a move request; if it had been so intended it would have been formulated very differently, and posted at WT:WikiProject Agriculture. Some points:
- What's at issue here is whether or not to restore some hundreds of articles to the titles they were at before SMcCandlish moved them without discussion and without reference to the WikiProjects concerned or (that I'm aware of) to the few editors who actually contribute in this area (I'm thinking of BlindEagle, Steven Walling, JTdale, PigeonIP, Richard New Forest, Montanabw, Ealdgyth, I've surely forgotten many; and also, incidentally, myself).
- There are a lot of these articles. The list above is merely the first hundred or so. The rest are listed here and here.
- Many of these moves were made after McCandlish had been specifically told that such moves were contentious, and that the normal move request process should be used. All this has already been extensively discussed at ANI (now at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive847#Undiscussed page moves by SMcCandlish), where McCandlish was roundly criticised and banned for three months from moving articles.
- McCandlish has decided (again without reference to WikiProjects or other interested editors) how he wants domestic animal breed articles to be named, and is apparently on a one-man crusade to impose that decision on the rest of us. Of course, as he worked his way through the categories, the mantra "like almost all articles in this and other animal breed categories" became less and less untrue.
- In many of these cases parentheses were removed citing WP:NATURAL or with the mantra "use natural disambiguation not parentheticals when possible, per WP:AT policy". That policy reads:
Natural disambiguation: If it exists, choose an alternative name that the subject is also commonly called in English, albeit not as commonly as the preferred-but-ambiguous title. Do not, however, use obscure or made-up names.
- In some cases (the Teeswater is one) following the breed name with a species name produces a phrase that can be commonly found in English; in others, such as the Tacola, there is no evidence that the title McCandlish has chosen is ever used in English; Tacola sheep is a made-up name. These moves were made without due care to observe WP:AT policy.
- McCandlish is now citing the titles of pages that he himself moved in other move requests.
- Two specific types of move by McCandlish have already been discussed and reverted: his undiscussed moves of horse pages from Breed Name Species to Breed Name species here, and his undiscussed moves of dog articles from Dog Breed (dog) to Dog Breed dog here. Those two precedents cover all the articles listed above with the exception of the two that Anthony Appleyard raises valid objection to.
- WP:BRD. There are surely inconsistencies in our naming of breed articles, and they may need to be discussed; that discussion, when it happens, should be based on the previous position, not the result of one person's attempt to impose his will on the project.
Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:52, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
- Okay, let's try this again.
Itemized response. I doubt anyone actually wants to read this stuff, so I'll just collapse-box it again so people can skip it easily. Justlettersandnumbers should probably do the same with the above text-wall.
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- I could go on, but I don't think it would be useful to do so. I'm not angry at Jlan for having personality clashes with me; rather, the arguments presented by this editor to mire or derail this and related RMs are not sustainable under any RM-relevant rationale, and that's all that needs to be shown here.
I've suggested that Jlan (and Montanabw) and I shoudl probably engage in a formal WP:Dispute resolution process; much of this heat vs. light appears to be a personality conflict, not a WP:AT one, really. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 00:41, 18 September 2014 (UTC) Update: Montanabw has pointedly refused dispute resolution.[2] — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 06:43, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
- I could go on, but I don't think it would be useful to do so. I'm not angry at Jlan for having personality clashes with me; rather, the arguments presented by this editor to mire or derail this and related RMs are not sustainable under any RM-relevant rationale, and that's all that needs to be shown here.
Newer discussion
[edit]- Comment I really don't want to be involved in this messy business but I will point out to SMc where he questions why Fowl is only used on some chicken breeds - Fowl exclusively refers to birds within the poultry fancy with Game in their name (i.e.: Gamefowl). We don't have Rhode Island Red fowl, but Old English Game fowl is acceptable. Shamo fowl would make no sense because no Game in the name. You really have to take things by case by case. No one system is going to work. JTdale Talk 11:00, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
- Understood. Having a few breeds named "X Game fowl" isn't problematic, any more than having a few pig articles named "X swine" instead of "X pig" because the sources indicate it's conventional. No one has suggested some kind of robotic conformity enforcement that would prevent "fowl" or "swine", though the straw man position that such ideas are proposed has been common enough in previous related debates. The specific content of these and other ongoing related RMs is actually proof that no such "hyper-conformity" proposals are on the table at all. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 00:41, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
- response to No one has suggested some kind of robotic conformity enforcement. My impression is another one: Sebright and Pekin, that where Sebright (chicken) and Pekin (chicken) are at least Sebright Bantams and Pekin Bantam or Cochin Bantam to use a correct, not made up name. (WP:NATURAL says: If it exists, choose an alternative name that the subject is also commonly called in English, albeit not as commonly as the preferred-but-ambiguous title. Do not, however, use obscure or made-up names) --PigeonIP (talk) 12:55, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
- An alternative name would be perfectly fine. To address an example you used somewhere in your duplicative posts of this sort in multiple RMs: In cases where "Something Bantam" and "Something Somethingelse" are both covered at "Something chicken" (and you'd prefer "Something (chicken)") the correct name would actually be "Something chickens" since the article is covering two, not one, varieties of related chickens. This is standard operating procedure across wikipedia (see, e.g., Cue sports which is plural because it covers more than one related sport. To get back to bantam breeds, are there any that are not bantam variants of larger breeds? If not, use plural "chickens" for any cases where the bantam and larger variant are both in the same article. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 06:18, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
- for response see: #Comment referring to chicken --PigeonIP (talk) 08:24, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
- An alternative name would be perfectly fine. To address an example you used somewhere in your duplicative posts of this sort in multiple RMs: In cases where "Something Bantam" and "Something Somethingelse" are both covered at "Something chicken" (and you'd prefer "Something (chicken)") the correct name would actually be "Something chickens" since the article is covering two, not one, varieties of related chickens. This is standard operating procedure across wikipedia (see, e.g., Cue sports which is plural because it covers more than one related sport. To get back to bantam breeds, are there any that are not bantam variants of larger breeds? If not, use plural "chickens" for any cases where the bantam and larger variant are both in the same article. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 06:18, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
- response to No one has suggested some kind of robotic conformity enforcement. My impression is another one: Sebright and Pekin, that where Sebright (chicken) and Pekin (chicken) are at least Sebright Bantams and Pekin Bantam or Cochin Bantam to use a correct, not made up name. (WP:NATURAL says: If it exists, choose an alternative name that the subject is also commonly called in English, albeit not as commonly as the preferred-but-ambiguous title. Do not, however, use obscure or made-up names) --PigeonIP (talk) 12:55, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
- Understood. Having a few breeds named "X Game fowl" isn't problematic, any more than having a few pig articles named "X swine" instead of "X pig" because the sources indicate it's conventional. No one has suggested some kind of robotic conformity enforcement that would prevent "fowl" or "swine", though the straw man position that such ideas are proposed has been common enough in previous related debates. The specific content of these and other ongoing related RMs is actually proof that no such "hyper-conformity" proposals are on the table at all. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 00:41, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
- "with the exception of the two": There may be others in the two extra lists pointed to hereinabove. And in "Shamo chicken → Shamo (chicken)": a main meaning of "Shamo" by itself is a Chinese name of the Gobi Desert. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 12:45, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, there are many of these cases (see the other, more focused RMs I luanched the other day). WP:NATURAL instructs us to use natural disambiguation in such cases. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 00:41, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
- Comment My personal preference is to use the parens. This makes it much easier for me to find breeds by their name. Again, personal preference. Teaswater sheep as a title of an article, to me, would imply that is the name of the breed. It is not. The name of the breed is Teaswater. Of course, to have a name of an article with just such a title would be confusing and thus the parenthetical. Just my $0.02. BlindEagletalk~contribs
- Except if Teeswater Sheep were the name of the breed it would be capitalized like that, not given as Teeswater sheep. Numerous editors of various different kinds of breed editors have been absolutely adamant about this. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 00:41, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
- SMcCandlish, thank you for explaining that. I see better where you are coming from, now. However, my preference is still to use the parens. I find it easier to understand. BlindEagletalk~contribs 19:17, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
- Neutral I've written many of these articles. I used the parenthetical because the word "sheep" (or "chicken" or "cow" or "pig") is most definitely not part of the proper name for these animal breeds. Its purpose is solely for disambiguation. This is quite important, since in most cases sheep are named for places. This editorial policy, at WP:NCDAB, seems quite clear to me. However, as to whether the parens are necessary or not seems a particularly academic question. As long as we use the disambiguation term where necessary, readers will be well served. I personally prefer to defer to whatever other primary authors in this area, like BlindEagle and Justlettersandnumbers, want to do. Steven Walling • talk 20:22, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
- Comment 1: I favor Steven Walling's comment that a certain amount of deference should be given to the article writers, such as JLAN in this case, with the caveat that titling consistency with a set of articles (dog breeds, horse breeds, sheep breeds, chicken breeds) should be maintained whenever possible (I say this in part because WikiProject Equine takes the opposite position on parenthetical titling for some very thoroughly discussed reasons that are not relevant here, but we have no intent to impose our views on other animal projects that have a different convention for standardization). Montanabw(talk) 21:32, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
- The utter lack of any form of consistency within almost all breed categories (much less between any of them) is why this ever arose in the first place. The horses category is much more consistent than most, which is a blessing, and I've repeatedly supported you in resisting moves that would thwart it, which you seem to forget. No one is accusing or suggesting that the equine wikiproject is or could be "imposing [their] views on other animal projects". Rather, we have a WP:AT policies that are being ignored by many articles in most of these categories. There is no provision at WP:AT policy "that a certain amount of deference should be given to the article writers"; we have that policy, and have elevated it to policy level, specifically to avoid the problems inherent in article writers dictating how "their" articles are named. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 00:41, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
- Before you came around, there was consistency at least within the pigeon category, focusing on parenthetical disambiguation. Same was true for poultry. Thank you very much. --PigeonIP (talk) 12:55, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
- The utter lack of any form of consistency within almost all breed categories (much less between any of them) is why this ever arose in the first place. The horses category is much more consistent than most, which is a blessing, and I've repeatedly supported you in resisting moves that would thwart it, which you seem to forget. No one is accusing or suggesting that the equine wikiproject is or could be "imposing [their] views on other animal projects". Rather, we have a WP:AT policies that are being ignored by many articles in most of these categories. There is no provision at WP:AT policy "that a certain amount of deference should be given to the article writers"; we have that policy, and have elevated it to policy level, specifically to avoid the problems inherent in article writers dictating how "their" articles are named. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 00:41, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
- Repeat: "almost all breed categories". Note that "almost all" != "all". The lack of consistency between them is a bigger issue than the exact contents of one of them in particular. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 11:45, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
- Comment 2: SMC's ongoing page move and titling disputes, combined with a penchant for rather vicious personal attacks while simultaneously accusing others of attacking him (see, e.g. Talk:Kiger Mustang are really getting out of hand and I am wondering if it time to discuss how to stop this endless drama. Montanabw(talk) 21:32, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
- Actually, you just proved my point with another personal attack. Thanks for being so unmistakably clear in this regard. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 00:41, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
- If you don't see how your behavior is coming across to others, then ask yourself why I am basically siding with people who hold a view opposite from my own preference on titles: It is because you are bullying them and in your insistence that your way is the only way, you are rapidly becoming one of the most tendentious and annoying people on wikipedia. That's not an "attack," that's a statement of reality. When you feel picked on, consider that it just might be your own behavior boomeranging back at you. Look in the mirror. Montanabw(talk) 08:26, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
- Okay, Montanabw is being extra-clear in admitting that they are "siding with" others against me, not on the merits but to make a point and to attempt to silence me personally. This editor clearly needs to read WP:GANG, WP:POINT, WP:HARASS, and WP:ARBATC, including its prohibition on personalizing article title debates, about which Montanabw was formally notified the day before they posted this. I've already suggested on Montanabw's own talk page to be amenable to WP:Dispute resolution, the proper venue for this stuff. Yet Montanabw just made it unmistakeably certain that this is a personal dispute for them, not a discussion about the merits of these renames, so they are disrupting WP:RM to pursue a personality conflict, even after it's been pointed out that this is what they're doing. It has to stop.
There is no "my way" that I'm insisting on. We have clear article title policies, and I've made moves that conform to them, accepted some criticism for doing so without discussion, and now we're having that very discussion, which seems to be going the way I suggested anyway, since it's the way based on policy, not "my way" or "Montanbw's way". Other moves I've requested, on a policy basis not some random personal preference mind you, almost invariably also are accepted (see SMcCandlish/Logs/My RMs, July–August 2014 for just one month's stats, in which my RM actions are over 95% accurate in predicting move or don't-move outcome). Montanabw is conflating a) their previous, unrelated article-titling personal disputes with me (in some of which they were correct about that content, while I was in others), b) an ANI resolved over two months ago about move process (not content) in which Montanabw was involved, and b) the substance (content, not process) of the moves in question now. These are three different topics. Montanabw muddying the waters of the ongoing proceeding (and doing so again, in ways that demonstrate they don't understand how RM works, at WP:AN) on the basis of my alleged personality is the fallacy ad hominem, and a sterling example of a WP:NPA violation again. Montanabw has already had way more than enough warnings in that regard. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 16:26, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
- Nonsense. I am not trying to "silence" you (hell, I don't read most of this stuff you post, as it's tl;dr), I'm just trying to point out that you ARE being real annoying and obnoxious. It would be nice if you'd stop personalizing everything and make your points in a more concise manner. Montanabw(talk) 04:29, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
- Okay, Montanabw is being extra-clear in admitting that they are "siding with" others against me, not on the merits but to make a point and to attempt to silence me personally. This editor clearly needs to read WP:GANG, WP:POINT, WP:HARASS, and WP:ARBATC, including its prohibition on personalizing article title debates, about which Montanabw was formally notified the day before they posted this. I've already suggested on Montanabw's own talk page to be amenable to WP:Dispute resolution, the proper venue for this stuff. Yet Montanabw just made it unmistakeably certain that this is a personal dispute for them, not a discussion about the merits of these renames, so they are disrupting WP:RM to pursue a personality conflict, even after it's been pointed out that this is what they're doing. It has to stop.
- If you don't see how your behavior is coming across to others, then ask yourself why I am basically siding with people who hold a view opposite from my own preference on titles: It is because you are bullying them and in your insistence that your way is the only way, you are rapidly becoming one of the most tendentious and annoying people on wikipedia. That's not an "attack," that's a statement of reality. When you feel picked on, consider that it just might be your own behavior boomeranging back at you. Look in the mirror. Montanabw(talk) 08:26, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
- Actually, you just proved my point with another personal attack. Thanks for being so unmistakably clear in this regard. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 00:41, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
- The fact that you routinely ignore and dismiss disagreement with your views is a major cause of these disputes, their length (both in words and time), and their heatedness. Surely you must realize this by now. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 11:45, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
- I agree with Montanabw here. I can't even be bothered to contribute to this discussion because its such a mess, but all you seem to do SMc is throw accusations and policy links at people, half the time citing yourself. I've seen you start a discussion by accusing someone of disrupting Wikipedia simply because you disagreed with their interpretation of rules or their style of writing instead of discussing it sensibly or letting the person explain their changes. For gods sake start acting in a reasonable manner. JTdale Talk 11:01, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
- It's a mess because of the way it was launched. You're applying extremely selective judgement here. I'm being wordy, but PigeonIP, with his mile-long, repetitive lists is not? I'm "throwing accusations", but Montanabw's direct personal attacks don't count? RM is a WP:AT policy discussion in almost all respects, but only people other than me are allowed to link to policies? I don't know what discussion ("accusing someone of disrupting") you're vaguely alluding to; doesn't this post of yours constitute exactly the kind of "throwing accusations" you're <ahem> accusing me of? How am I not being sensible? Every single post I've made is grounded in reason, facts, policies; I'm sorry if this comes off as gruffness. When I'm subjected to ad hominem after ad hominem, I'm not terribly inclined to be cordial; being critical and distant is not incivility. If you think the debate is noisy, lengthy and noncollegial, why contribute to all three of those problems? — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 11:45, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
Comment on pigeons
[edit]- cause I spend some time (a year or two ago) to go through the Category:Pigeon breeds to give them "the correct" names, refering to the EE-List of pigeon breeds. Befor SMcCandlish showed up, there was a handable system:
- Ice Pigeon: "pigeon" is part of the name of the breed, the article is about one breed of (fancy-)pigeon.
- Jacobin (pigeon): "pigeon" is not part of the breeds name.
- Dragoon pigeon: check out, if "pigeon" is part of the breeds name or not (or look for references on the correct english name); or it is a group of pigeons (like Carrier pigeon, Homing pigeon, Utility pigeons, defined by how they are used by us).
- SMcCandlish mentioned here two pigeons: Chistopolian High-flying pigeon (that he moved from Chistopolian High-flying Pigeon with the remark not a proper name) and the Ural Striped-maned pigeon, that was moves two times, without any reference from Ural striped maned pigeon and Ural striped-maned pigeon, the second time with the remark Actually, capitalize this with the same pattern as virtually all other animal breed articles)
- Looking for references or actually trying to understand the task at hand, he would have seen, that all breeds High-flying pigeons are called "Highflyer" (with some expections like the Tippler(s)). Maybe he would have known, that Chistopolian High-flying Pigeon is the breeds name, cause Christopolian high-flying does not work, or would have moved to Christopolian Highflyer[3] I was not able to find any references for the Ural pigeon, also there are a lot Ural tumbler breeds, the Orlow Tumbler/Orloff Tumbler (refering to Schütte and Schille: Orlowtümmler in German) and the Griwuni Tumbler, that is a russian "maned" tumbler. Maybe the breeds name is "lost in translation", there is a type of Griwuni Tumbler, that may be the one in question, but I do have no picture of that one to compare.
- some more pigeons:
- English Carrier pigeon --> "Carrier" in Britain, "English Carrier" in the US ("Carrier pigeon" is any type of pigeon, that is used to carry messages; not only one breed)
- Fantail pigeon --> "Fantail" ("Fantail pigeon"(s) could also refer to any fantailed pigeon, like the Indian Fantail, the Hungarian Fantail or the english Garden Fantail, for example)
- Barb pigeon --> Barb (pigeon) is the English Barb, Barb pigeon could also be any barb pigeon (like the German Barb)
- Archangel pigeon (long story, different understanding of that in GB and US; could be Gimpel with a redirect from Archangel (pigeon), cause the Archangel is a special kind of colour by one)
- Cauchois pigeon --> Cauchois (pigeon)
- Coburg lark, should be Coburg Lark (not one of SMCs moves)
- Damascene pigeon --> Damascene (pigeon)
- Dragoon pigeon --> Dragoon (pigeon)
- German Nun pigeon --> German Nun (pigeon)
- Helmet pigeon --> Helmet (pigeon), if it is the breed; "Helmet pigeon(s)" if you are refering to pigeons with a special type of colouring, like the Polish Helmet; other breeds do know the colour "Helmet", as well, they are also "Helmet pigeons" (see the czech article)
- King pigeon --> King (pigeon)
- Lahore pigeon --> Lahore (pigeon)
- Modena pigeon --> Modena (pigeon); Modena is also a group of pigeons (Modena (UK), German Modena, Triganino Modena)
- Nun pigeon --> Nun (pigeon) = English Nun (not so well known name); another breed is the German Nun (pigeon); "Nun pigeons" refers to both
- Scandaroon pigeon --> Scandaroon (pigeon) (not a group, belongs to the bagdad pigeons, I think - bagdad or barb)
- Starling pigeon --> Starling (pigeon)
- Strasser pigeon --> Strasser (pigeon)
- I hope I did not miss any breed. I do have the same problems to find a reference with Sverdlovsk blue-gray mottle-headed pigeon as I do have with the Ural one. --PigeonIP (talk) 14:35, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for the detailed level of the response, but this analysis is still missing the fact that WP:NATURAL requires us to use Jacobin pigeon not Jacobin (pigeon); there's no rationale for using parenthetical disambiguation here. If in a few cases like Ice Pigeon the "[p|P]igeon" part is capitalized because it's universally considered part of the breed name, that's surely fine, but lack of this circumstance would not call for using brackets. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 16:38, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for missing the fact, that "Fantail pigeon", "Helmet pigeon" and others are refering to groups of spiecial variations of pigeons... --PigeonIP (talk) 17:33, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
- I haven't missed that fact at all, and it has nothing to do with the naming, unless you're suggesting that they all each cover multiple breeds or varieties of pigeon, in which case the proper titles would be Fantail pigeons, etc. (note the plural). Still no case for parenthetical disambiguation. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 06:43, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
- btw. a Jacobin pigeon is the Danish Jacobin as well. --PigeonIP (talk) 17:54, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
- That would just be another case for natural disambiguation (to distinguish from Jacobins, in the original human sense, of Denmark), meanwhile WP:CONCISE would instruct us to use Jacobin pigeon not Danish Jacobin pigeon. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 06:43, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for missing the fact, that "Fantail pigeon", "Helmet pigeon" and others are refering to groups of spiecial variations of pigeons... --PigeonIP (talk) 17:33, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
Comment referring to chicken
[edit](refering to Listing of European Poultry Breeds and Colours, PCGB breed gallery, breed classification of the PCGB, APA recognised breeds and varieties)
- In Old English Pheasant fowl "Fowl" is part of the breeds name and it should be Old English Pheasant Fowl but it is not, because there was a "typo"...
- Pekin chicken: If not Pekin (chicken) [www.poultryclub.org/img/Breed Classification.pdf ] it is the Pekin Bantam[4] (less understandable for non chicken-fanciers, but correct. "Pekin chicken" is not.)
- American Game chicken/American Game fowl, was American Game (chicken), where it should be again, refering to American Game Fowl[5][6] and American Game Bantam [7] [8]; there is no "American Game chicken")
- Ancona chicken --> Ancona (chicken), name of the breed
- Sebright chicken - wrong!! Sebright (chicken) (name of the breed) or not so well known Sebright bantams (refering to Silver Sebright and Golden Sebright)
- Naked-neck chicken, the breed is "Naked Neck" or "Transylvanian Naked Neck"
- this list is to time-consuming. Why not moving back, to where it all began and discussing from there. Case by case, with references, as it should have been from the beginning --PigeonIP (talk) 14:35, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
- Same issues as with pigeons, above. There is no case for using parenthetical naming. You're mistaking "Ancona chicken" as an assertion that that string is the name of the breed; but it's "Ancona" followed by natural disambiguation. No case has been made for violating WP:NATURAL policy and using parenthetical disambiguation to produce an unintuitive name like "Ancona (chicken)", which seems to refer to an individual notable chicken named "Ancona". No one is proposing that the official breed name is "Ancona Chicken", fully captalized like that (as it is for breeds in which the species name really is part of the formal breed name, as in American Quarter Horse and Norwegian Forest Cat. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 16:38, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
PS: Why not move them back? Because it was already agreed, even by Jlan, over a month ago that a status quo ante revert would be a waste of time. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 06:43, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
- WP:Natural:
- "The title is one that readers are likely to look or search for and that editors would naturally use to link to the article from other articles. Such titles usually convey what the subject is actually called in English."
- example: The Sebright (chicken) is actually not called Sebright chicken in English. An editor familiar with the subject would never use it.
- WP:Natural expires when the WP:PRECISION criterion is not good enough. The natural disambiguation is one of three methods employed to avoid using an ambiguous title.
- A result of the unreferenced, undiscussed mass-moves from BuZZ (chicken) to BuZZ chicken many titles are violating WP:PRECISION, now. --PigeonIP (talk) 08:02, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
- WP:Natural:
- The sources don't lie: Google:
"Sebright chicken" -Wikipedia
"Sebright+chicken"+-Wikipedia&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8. Everyone, everywhere, all the time disambiguates breed names by appending the species (e.g. "chicken") or a synonym of it (e.g. "fowl") after the breed name whenever writing or speaking about a breed to people who are not necessarily going to be certain what they're referring to. This is universal, across all domestic animals, in English and I'd bet good money most other languages. WP:PRECISION is perfectly satisfied by this natural disambiguation. We've already been over this, and I've demonstrated this many times. You're confusing the idea "someone familiar with the subject would never use it in a context in which what they meant was already clear, e.g. in a chicken-related publication or forum" with the very different and easily, already disproven idea "someone familiar with the subject would never use it in any context, ever". And again, no one is making the case that the formal breed name include the species; that would be Sebright Chicken. No one's making thta claim about any breeds of any kind except those where the inclusion of the species in the breed name is reliably sourced as essentially universal (e.g. American Quarter Horse, Norwegian Forest Cat. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 10:23, 26 September 2014 (UTC)- right, sources don't lie: Google Book Search results for
- "sebright chicken": About 58 results,
- Lets have a closer look: some are on "Sebright (chicken)" others are about some chicken breeds and Domestic Pigeons from Sir J. Sebright. There is no reference to the Sebrights in Darvins The origin of species., for example.
- "sebright bantam": About 5,160 results
- "sebright bantams": "sebright+bantam"&tbm=bks About 8,730 results
- --PigeonIP (talk) 11:13, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
- Oh, I agree with you that Sebright Bantam is a better name; I'm just disagreeing with your earlier suggestion that "Sebright chicken" is wrong. This discussion is further proof that many of these articles need an individual discussion on the merits of what their titles should be, and that reneging on the agreed moratorium on a mass revert to status quo ante of over two months ago would be worse than pointless. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 11:55, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
- right, sources don't lie: Google Book Search results for
- To get back to bantam breeds, are there any that are not bantam variants of larger breeds? – Yes, there are. I pointed you multiple times to the Sebright (chicken). There are others as well. There is also large fowl without a corresponding bantam breed.
- "Something chickens": SMcCandlish, you moved them all from "Something (chicken)" to "Something chicken", without any expertise. It is common, that, if there is a corresponding bantam breed to large fowl, it is mentioned within the article of the large fowl breed. The bantam breed title redirects there. In most of these cases it is not desirable to have a separate article on the bantam. That is, how writing poultry-articles works, it serves the reader and leads to a better quality of the articles. You don't have to rewrite the informations, that are relevant for both breeds. Those informations, that are interesting for readers not familiar with chicken. --PigeonIP (talk) 08:28, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
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- Okay, then clearly we need "Foo Bantam" for any breed where there is only a bantam form, or for which there is a larger one as well but the bantam form has its own article. I agree that it's generally not desirable to have separate articles in the latter cases, but this is not a merge proposal. This doesn't affect the naming discussion otherwise. If "Foo" is classified as a breed, with two forms, do "Foo chicken" (natural disambiguation). If they're treated as separate breeds, but we want to cover them both in one article, "Foo chickens" (plural). This is not rocket science. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 10:23, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
- The sources don't lie: Google:
- Articles are already about both. That is the situation at hand! There is no need to request merge (nor to split).
- And please think about the reader here! Sebright Bantams and Sebright (chicken) are both fine. The inexpedienced reader is likely not to know, what to expect with
Sebright Bantams
;Sebright (chicken)
is better, on this one (WP:PRECISE) --PigeonIP (talk) 11:13, 26 September 2014 (UTC)- 1) I know; I'm not the one who brought that up. I'm saying discussion of whether or not we want articles to be about both is off-topic here, so we need to stop going on about it <sigh>. 2) I am; Sebright Bantam (not plural), if that is the formal name of the breed in some registries, and Sebright chicken (not parenthetical) are both permissible names with regard to that breed, under our naming conventions. If the Sebright came in non-bantam form as well and the article covered both, it should be at Sebright chickens (plural) if they're treated as separate breeds with their own standards, or Sebright chicken if treated as variants of one breed with a single published standard. If "Chicken" is actually part of the formal breed name, it would be Sebright Chicken. If there were a notable individual hen named Sebright, her article would be Sebright (chicken). This is not difficult. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 11:28, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
Comment refering to turkey breeds
[edit]- one example: Sphilbrick moved page Buff (turkey) to Buff turkey: Use natural disambiguation when possible, not parentheticals, per WP:AT policy, and like virtually all other animal breed articles[9] (others where done by SMCs)
- my reference: European list of Poultry Breeds and colours
- Black turkey --> Black (turkey); the breed is at least not identical with the Norfolk Black, another black turkey (there is a mistake in that article)
- Bronze turkey --> Bronze (turkey); this American breed is not identical with the German/European bronze, that was the GEHs Endangered breed of the year 2008; it is not identical with the Cambridge bronze, the Black winged bronze and maybe some others
- Buff turkey --> Buff (turkey); the American breed is not identical with the German/European Buff Turkey, the English Buff Turkey (= nl: Engelsekalkoen buff) (see Listing of European Poultry Breeds and Coulours) and the buff czech turkey as well [10]
- knowing this and taking in mind that Heritage turkey is not a breed, but a group of turkeys, what is the use of
- Auburn turkey (breed or any auburn turkey?;
- Royal Palm turkey (breed or group of breeds?)
- Slate turkey (breed or group of breeds?) (by the way, the "Blue" or "Lavander" is another on within the PCGB[11]; misinterpretation? another American breed? The american blue turkey is another one... (see EE))
- White Holland turkey (breed or group of white holland breeds?)
--PigeonIP (talk) 17:26, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
- Same issues as with pigeons and chickens, above. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 06:43, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
comment on pigs mentioned in the RM
[edit]- Danish Protest pig → Danish Protest Pig (or Rotbuntes Husumer)
- Danish Protest pig is a made up name (unreferenced translation). There is no English source provided. The "real" name of that breed is Rotbuntes Husumer (FAO, Rotbunte Husumer is plural). "Protestschwein" is a nickname.
- note: I changed that one. Found a reference for "Danish Protest Pig" --PigeonIP (talk) 08:42, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
- Jeju Black pig → Jeju Black Pig (or Jeju native pig)
Jeju Black pig, again, no source for the chosen name. FAO has it as Jeju native pig [12]. Another one is "Native Black Pig", cited in a tourism page. The pigs are native to the semi-tropical island Jeju. (= feral breed)- note: I changed that, found a reference --PigeonIP (talk) 08:42, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
- Auckland Island pig →
Auckland Island Pigis a feral breed [13] - Arapawa pig →
Arapawa Pigis a feral breed [14] - Aksai Black Pied pig → Aksai Black Pied (pig) name of the breed (FAO)
- Casertana pig → Casertana (pig) name of the breed (FAO)
- Latvian White pig → Latvian White (pig) per source of the article (FAO)
- Lithuanian White pig → Lithuanian White (pig) per source of the article + (FAO)
- Lacombe pig → Lacombe (pig) name of the breed (FAO, Oklahoma State University)
- Sarda pig → Sarda (pig) name of the breed (FAO)
- Swabian-Hall swine → Swabian-Hall Swine (Oklahoma State University, FAO provides only the native name, Subpopulation of the German Saddleback)
- Gascon pig → Gascon (pig)
- Kakhetian pig → Kakhetian (pig) or Kakhuri Pig
- comment: most common and transboundary name are Kakhuri Pig, maybe that one is better. (FAO)
- Danish Landrace pig → Danish Landrace (pig) name of the breed (FAO, Oklahoma State University)
- Estonian Bacon pig → Estonian Bacon or better Estonian Landrace
- comment: altname is Estonian Landrace FAO
- Forest Mountain pig → Forest Mountain or better New Lesogor
- comment: move to the better fitting altname New Lesogor (FAO; the native names are Novaya Lesogornaya and Lesogornaya Porodnaya Gruppa)
More pig-relatet RMs are at Talk:Asturian Mountain and Talk:Dutch Landrace#Requested moves. The Ukrainian Spotted Steppe (FAO) and Ukrainian White Steppe (FAO) don't have to be distinguished. On Talk:Dutch Landrace#Requested moves are some "Landrace moves" requested. If they have to be distinguished (like the Dutch Landrace), that shall be through a parenthetical disambiguation. Names like Dutch Landrace goat are very uncommon.[15] --PigeonIP (talk) 20:03, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
- Same issues as with pigeons, chickens, and turkeys above. On second thought, despite thanking you for the detail level earlier, at this point I'm fairly certain that adding rambling lists here is not elucidating anything, it's just adding verbiage to a discussion in which the principles and rationales for them are already clear enough. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 06:43, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
Reliable sources regularly use natural disambiguation for these breeds
[edit]Of course, reliable sources (even when they mostly use just the breed name by itself when there's no ambiguity) regularly and predictably use precisely the kind of natural disambiguation as proposed here, when they need to be clear what species they mean (as WP always needs to; we can never presume that any given reader already knows that an article is about cattle or pigs or whatever before going to the article, as one might in a paper about cattle (etc.), and even those often use natural disambiguation anyway). Natural disambiguation is a natural feature of the English language (that's why it's called natural disambiguation, after all). I did this sorucing for a different RM (see Talk:Asturian Mountain#Requested moves) but it's equally applicable here, and similar source can be found for the entries on the RM list up top:
- "Picos de Europa". UNESCO.org. United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). April 2014.
autochthonous races of cattle such as the Asturian mountain cattle – Ratina and Casina – and Tudanca cattle.
- "Spain: Redes" (PDF). UNESCO.org. [unknown].
Herds of the endangered Casina cattle or Asturian mountain cattle are to be found in Redes
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(help) - "Current Concept: Cattle of European origin". SNOMED. IHTSDO. 2014.
Aberdeen Angus cattle ... Asturian Mountain cattle, Asturian Valley cattle ... Finnish Ayrshire cattle ... Zavot cattle, Znamensk cattle ...
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- Christensena, L. G.; Barlowab, R.; Neimann-S⊘rensena, A. (1984). "Crossbreeding Red Danish, Holstein-Friesian and Finnish Ayrshire Cattle: Performance of Foundation Females and Traits of Foundation and First-generation Calves". Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica. 34 (4): 463–479. doi:10.1080/00015128409435414.
- Schulman, N. F.[1]; Viitala, S. M.; de Koning, D. J.; Virta, J.; Mäki-Tanila, A; Vilkki, J. H. (February 2004). "Quantitative trait Loci for health traits in Finnish Ayrshire cattle". Journal of Dairy Science. 87 (2): 4434–499.
health traits in Finnish Ayrshire dairy cattle
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clinical mastitis in Finnish Ayrshire cattle
- Korkman, N. (1940). "On the occurrence of dropsy in Finnish Ayrshire cattle". Nordisk Jordbrugsforskning. 22: 225–243. ISSN 0048-0495.
- Mantysaari, Esa Antero (August 1988). "Estimation of genetic parameters for reproductive traits in Finnish Ayrshire cattle". Cornell University //Books.Google.com/books/about/Estimation_of_genetic_parameters_for_rep.html?id=3VpPAAAAYAAJ.
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(help) - Detilleux, J. C.; Gröhn, Yrjö T.; Quaas, Richard Louis (1994). "Effects of clinical ketosis on test day milk yields in Finnish Ayrshire Cattle". Proceedings of the Fifth World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production. (It's not clear why "Cattle" was capitalized here, but it isn't in most sources.)
- Kinh, L. V.; Hai, L. T. (November 2006). "Improving pig performance through breeding and feeding in Vietnam". In Thorpe, W. (ed.); Jemaneh, T. (ed.) (eds.). Pig systems in Asia and the Pacific: How can research and development enhance benefits to the poor?. International Livestock Research Institute. pp. 79–80.
"Australian Yorkshire and Duroc pigs were imported.... Offspring boars sired by Australian Yorkshire and Duroc pigs.... All male offspring of imported Australian Yorkshire pigs had...
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has generic name (help) - Duncanson, Graham R. (December 13, 2013). Veterinary Treatment of Pigs. CABI. p. 179.
Ukrainian Spotted Steppe pig
- "Global Regions – Breeds at Risk: Europe". Animal Genetic Resources Group, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 1998. p. 156 ftp://ftp.FAO.org/docrep/fao/009/x8750e/x8750e02.pdf.
breeds such as the Black Pied cattle or the Ukrainian Spotted Steppe and Russian Black Pied pigs
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(help) Also on p. 150 in 1995 edition. - Baschenko, M. I.; Burkat, V. P. (1997). Breeding Strategies for Cattle, Sheep and Pigs in Eastern Europe. REU Technical Series (47). FAO http://FAO.org/docrep/006/ad250e/ad250e0m.htm.
"Red Steppe cattle and Red cattle ... Black-and-White cattle ... Red Steppe cattle ... Angler cattle ... Brown Calpack cattle ... Grey Ukraine cattle ... Wolynik cattle ... the White Ukraine Steppe Pig, the Mielgoroda Steppe Pig ...
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(help) (It's unclear why, in a handful of cases, the authors capitalized the species name, but it's not very significant, since most sources do not. The document shows a large number of "scannos" – OCR errors – so this may explain it.) - Greben', L.; Greben', E.; Krylov, N.; Mikhailova, M.; Sorokina, V.; Shcherbak, T. (1974). "The Ukrainian Spotted Steppe pig". Svinovodstvo (9): 28–29.
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- Grebenj, L. K. (1937). "Breeding operation with the new breed of Ukrainian White Steppe pig". Probl. Zivotn. 7: 17–131.
- Ivanov, M. F. (1933). "The Ukrainian Steppe White Pig – A New Breed". Probl. Zhivotn. 1: 32–42. (Note the inversion of "Steppe" and "White", and unusual capitalization of "Pig".)
- "Dorset Down Sheep". DorsetDownSheep.org.uk. Dorset Down Sheep Breeder's Association. (After the homepage, they just use "Dorset Down", suggesting that "Dorset Down Sheep" is a natural disambiguation/explanation (capitalized for no particular reason). The "Breed Qualities" page[16] gives it as "Dorset Down", but it is not a formal breed standard, just an overview.
- Vorwald Dohner, Janet (2001). "Breed Profiles: Sheep: Dorset Down". Yale University Press. p. 128 //Books.Google.com/books?id=WJCTL_mC5w4C&pg=PA128&lpg=PA128&dq=%22Dorset+Down+sheep%22+-Wikipedia&source=bl&ots=OQG9IIitef&sig=tIHlCP3qrnwDvyih-iqVXOzos3Q&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rYwuVMLUGorxoASO9IKIAQ&ved=0CFkQ6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=%22Dorset%20Down%20sheep%22%20-Wikipedia&f=false.
Dorset Down sheep were exported around the world.
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(help) (Source typically uses just the breed names, e.g. "Dorset Down", but regularly also uses the longer constructions (e.g. "Dorset Down sheep"), and lower-cases the species name when doing so.) - "Description of a Dorset Down Sheep". HeritageSheep.org.au. Heritage Sheep Australia. October 18, 2010 [last updated]. "Dorset Down" page.
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(help) (Source typically uses just the breed names, e.g. "Dorset Down", but regularly also uses the longer constructions (e.g. "Dorset Down [S|s]heep"), but usually in headings that are title-cased.)
This convincingly shows that breeds have formal names ("Asturian Mountain", " Asturian Valley", "Finnish Ayrshire", "Dorset Down", etc.) to which capitalized species ("Cattle", "Pig", "Sheep" etc. are usually not appended, yet that they are regularly WP:NATURALly disambiguated by reliable sources in the real world, by appending lower-case species. This proves beyond any shadow of doubt that such a practice is not weird here, "a made up name", unnatural, etc. Natural disambiguation is a natural feature of the English language. THat's why it's called that. There is abosolutely no case make here for using unnatural, parenthetical disambiguation. Closing this RM, against prior agreement to not do a status quo ante revert, with a result that leads to just such a status quo ante revert, is simply going to lead in turn to a large number of renewed on-the-merits RM requests to put the articles at naturally disambiguated names, since both policy and reliable sources support this, and no argument backed by either can be or has been made for parenthetical. I'm prepared to make an RS list like the above for every single case on this list if that's what it takes to put a stop to this "let's make up random rules as we go along that are different for geese and for guineapigs and for ferrets". Enough of that nonsense. We have an article titles policy for a reason. WP:AT + WP:RS > WP:ILIKEIT, and there's no way around that, so let's stop stalling. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 18:07, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
is all that fuss really about reading "sheep" in brackets as individual sheep?
[edit]// as implied with that edit// later added by PigeonIP (talk) 20:10, 24 September 2014 (UTC) so what does (sheep) mean?
- individuum of the species sheep
- kind of sheep?
I'd love to see the policy on "how to read a bracket".
- an example directly from WP:NATURAL: Turkey (bird) is an individual bird named "Turkey"?
--PigeonIP (talk) 17:33, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
- The best I have seen on offer is: Bracket#Specific uses. You have mentioned WP:NATURAL which shows the extent of instruction in relation to Wikipedia:Article titles#Disambiguation. Otherwise there is a notable absence of mention of brackets in the guidelines. This absence of information may, in itself, say something. Gregkaye ✍♪ 11:54, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
- Well, the fact that the one example the policy gives of an animal term followed by a more general animal term is explcitly stated to refer to an individual animal, and hundreds of such animal articles exist using precisely this kind of parenthetical disamiguation (e.g. on racehorse articles) is a very strong indication that the RM contemplated here, to move numerous breed articles [back] to parenthetical disambiguation is a really bad idea. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 06:06, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
- The best I have seen on offer is: Bracket#Specific uses. You have mentioned WP:NATURAL which shows the extent of instruction in relation to Wikipedia:Article titles#Disambiguation. Otherwise there is a notable absence of mention of brackets in the guidelines. This absence of information may, in itself, say something. Gregkaye ✍♪ 11:54, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
- Did I read this right? "Otherwise there is a notable absence of mention of brackets in the guidelines".
- Parenthesis is covered at Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Naming the specific topic articles. #2) "A disambiguating word or phrase can be added in parentheses" but adds "but it is usually better to rephrase such a title to avoid parentheses (for instance, Vector (spatial) was renamed to Euclidean vector).". This is followed by "Natural disambiguation is generally preferable to parenthetical disambiguation;". Usually better to rephrase could be confusing. Adding "If natural disambiguation is not available, a parenthetical is used", might clarify things and possibly mean to use parenthesis as exceptions. I am not sure how we can wikilawyer this to exclude sheep, chicken, and pigs, attempting to add parenthesis to 92 out of 97 articles, but it will be interesting to see how it will play out. Otr500 (talk) 08:14, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
- Support restoring all to their original titles (except those for which Anthony Appleyard has raised objection) per experienced editors in this area including Richard New Forest (here), Steven Walling and BlindEagle above, and particularly PigeonIP whose detailed analysis and careful rationale at Talk:Strasser pigeon is completely convincing. SMcCandlish writes above that WP:NATURAL "requires" us to use his preferred format. It doesn't do anything of the sort. It specifically enjoins us to avoid made-up names, and most certainly does not suggest that we ignore WP:COMMONSENSE to the point of creating titles with mixed capitalisation such as White-faced Black Spanish chicken. What next, Harvard university (possible rationale: " ... the word 'university' is just a disambiguator and is not part of the common name of the institution")? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:52, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
- Note. The outcome of this discussion may affect other recent move requests by SMcCandlish including:
- Black Hereford (hybrid) → Black Hereford cattle (British)
- Blue Grey → Blue Grey cattle
- Anglo-Nubian → Anglo-Nubian goat
- Dutch Landrace → Dutch Landrace goat
- Asturian Mountain → Asturian Mountain cattle
- Corsican Cattle → Corsican cattle
- Canadian Speckle Park → Speckle Park cattle
- Harz Red mountain cattle → Harz cattle
- Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:49, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
- You seem to have missed the critique of the reasoning by PigeonIP, et al., above. You're also making a bogus argument to authority and to tenure, in suggesting that "experienced editors in [the topic] area" know more about WP article titling policy that the rest of Wikipedia (see the essay WP:Specialist style fallacy for an exploration of why that's not reasonable [note: I'm not "citing myself" - it's not a guideline, it's simply a page in which some reasoning has been laid out so it can be referred to without re-re-re-repeating it]). You're next engaging in a straw man; no one has suggested anything at all like "Harvard university", much less on the irrational basis that "university" is a natural disambiguator; it's a false analogy. Finally, the outcome of this this RM is unlikely to affect other RMs at all, because it's a request for a status quo ante mass revert of moves from over two months ago, and does not address the merits of any of the names. I've broken them out into groups for discussion on the merits, and most responses to have have been in favor of the moves as they are, or suggestions that each article should be discussed individually. As noted above, there was already an agreement between me, yourself, and the admins most likely to be performing any such moves that we would not be doing a status quo ante revert, but rather discussion the names on their merits. Why is it that you're now so insistent on status quo ante reverts you already agreed not to pursue, and avoiding the substantive discussion of the names? — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 06:06, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
- Note. The outcome of this discussion may affect other recent move requests by SMcCandlish including:
- It would be highly irregular to host an RM discussion on the talk page of a wikiproject in which participants are already taking sides in the debate, because every single !vote will trigger watchlist notices for most participants in the project, and this will lead directly to project members dog-piling any comment they don't agree with. It would be blatant vote-stacking and simply lead to a WP:MR dispute. Multi-article RMs are normally (actually, almost universally) hosted at the talk page of one of the articles proposed for moving, and the RM bot will notify the talk pages of the rest. This is standard operating procedure. It's also SoP to group RMs when the issues raised by them are the same or similar, as I've done with Blue Grey and the other small-group RMs noted immediately above. On multiple pages now, you've been venting in an ad hominem manner about this RM format as if it's some kind of wrongdoing on my part, but its the normal and expected method. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 06:11, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.