Talk:Australasian Gannet
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Query "The Australian Gannet (Morus serrator or Sula bassana)..."
Sula bassana is the Northern Gannet. Should this be Sula serrator, or is it a view that this is a subspecies of Northern? jimfbleak 12:53, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
[edit] 203.122.223.104
203.122.223.104 added false information, as some kind of joke or experiment in wikipedia trustworthyness.
http://ozlabs.org/people/cyeoh/diary.cgi/2004/09/28#wikipedia
Removed.
[edit] Moving to Australasian Gannet
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the debate was (seems to be) Move Duja 11:14, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- Australian Gannet → Australasian Gannet —(Discuss)— seems more neutral as these gannets also occur in New Zealand. Although a name doesn't necessarily have anything to do with where a creature is found, if there are two common names and one is more location neutral I feel the more location neutral one should be preferred. Also although I don't like use Google to establish prevalence "Australasian Gannet" does have more hits then "Australian Gannet" — Nil Einne 07:58, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
- BTW, one of the major reason I don't like using Google is because it tends to have a pro-US and pro-Western bias even cf the number of English speakers. This probably doesn't really apply to this case Nil Einne 07:58, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
- Move the bird project has a good set of rules for the common names of birds see this; the HANZAB lists this species as the Australasian Gannet so the article should be moved there. --Peta 02:38, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- Comment - what are the official bodies etc for naming birdies? I would recommend that you use the official name. (and I say that as someone with both New Zealand and Australian citizenship) --Midnighttonight remind to go do uni work! 03:08, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- Comment - AFAIK there are no real official bodies (true with most organisms). Rather there are books etc published and often one or several of these are considered 'authorities' on the subject by most of the scientific community. In some cases, one specific book is so significant it accepted as the authority by most scientists but this is often not the case. In any case, scientists tend to be primarily interested in the scientific name and taxonomic relationships, common names are often partially ignored. But the link provided by Peta is very helpful (I should have looked for something first) and IMHO anyway it's pretty much settled since no one disputes the change and the de facto authority we use supports the change Nil Einne 10:50, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- Move as per Peta. Pizzey and Knight "The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia" also uses Australasian Gannet. --Bduke 03:32, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
