Talk:Chlorogalum pomeridianum

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Could whoever keeps changing "commonest" to "most common" please go out and buy a dictionary? Both these forms are acceptable in English, and in this particular sentence using "commonest" expresses more clearly that "common" and "widely distributed" are both being put into the superlative, and that they are logically independent. seglea 06:54, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Why has this page been shunted to its systematic name? We generally use common names for reasonably well-known plants, for a number of good-ish reasons. It's not that there are no arguments the other way, but we oughtn't to randomly move things aroudn without discussion at, e.g., WikiProject Tree of Life. There's no special case for moving this one - it has one dominant common name, which is unambiguous and regularly used. I'll move it back in a few days if no cogent reason appears here. seglea 23:06, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm perfectly happy with it being listed under the scientific name (for reasons I explained at Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants#Plant article naming conventions, but what I want to know is why was the talk page moved without moving the article. I'd move the article, but (1) I'd seek consensus first, and (2) it would be a bit of work to change all the wording.--Curtis Clark 23:17, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

There seems to have been a glitch - I found it with the article moved but a talk page under the old name. All very odd. I agree about the work involved in changing the wording (one of the reasons for not doing a lot of changing of articles to systematic names) seglea 23:41, 22 June 2006 (UTC)