Talk:Mammuthus africanavus

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On 12 April 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved from African mammoth to Mammuthus africanavus. The result of the discussion was moved.

2 concerns

1.Why a geology tag? 2.No data on its size? That's allUndead Herle King (talk) 03:01, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 12 April 2023

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

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Material Works (contribs) 23:52, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

African mammoth → Mammuthus africanavus – Looking at google scholar, there is almost no use of "African mammoth" to refer to Mammuthus africanavus. Most of the 20 results are false positives, not referring to this species. When there is no common name, the species name should be preferred, as it is clear and unambiguous. The current title is ambiguous as Mammuthus subplanifrons is also endemic to Africa, and indeed one source even refers to it as the "African mammoth". [1]. Hemiauchenia (talk) 22:50, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Agree - based on the nominators findings, I agree with this. Sincreator (talk) 05:02, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Agree - In situations like these, it would be best to go with the scientific name than with a dubious or ambiguous common name that isn't that commonly used.--Mr Fink (talk) 05:17, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support - sounds reasonable. FunkMonk (talk) 08:39, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
yeup - that seems like a very decent solution to the issues suggested. --Licks-rocks (talk) 16:15, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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