Talk:Garlic chives

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[edit] Requested Move debate

A revert war over chinese chives vs garlic chives? This seems childish, though I see no reason for the move having been made in the first place. Chinese chives is not "more accurate", simply one of the alternatives, and not the most common one. A googlebattle gives "chinese chives" 36,900 hits, versus 102,000 for "garlic chives" (yes, the quote marks were in the search, or I would be including garlic and chives). Further, it is not just part of chinese cuisine. When I first encountered it, it was as "nira" and used in Japanese cooking. Later a chinese friend of mine (from China) referred to it as garlic chives, and told a great story about how it was worse than garlic for stinking the breath. Rather than continue this revert war, I would encourage editors to chime in on their preference so we can get a consensus (or just a majority). I am in favor of moving it back to garlic chives. -- WormRunner 03:26, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Support

Support I know these as garlic chives too, and have never heard them called chinese chives. I therefore support the move to garlic chives because it is the more common name. skorpion 03:55, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
Support I've not heard of either, but your rationalisation seems sound. Dead 06:55, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oppose

[edit] Neutral

I would like to see proper evidence that this is more commonly know as garlic chives. Google is NOT good evidence as has been discussed many times previously due to the fact it's highly biased to the US (and the Western world to a less extent) for one. (What this is referred to in English in countries such as India etc is just as important). Nil Einne 11:19, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

A google search with "site:.uk" added still gives a clear lead to garlic chives, as does "site:.ca", "site:.au" and "site:.nz". When this is changed to "site:.in" for india, there are fewer than 10 citations for each and no clear winner. Are there other english-speaking countries we should check? A US bias does exist for google as a whole, but refined searches can be very informative. The article was at garlic chives since march of 2004 to june of 2006 and I was questioning whether the move to chinese chives was reasonable, since no justification was given other than that it was "more accurate" and this was unreferenced. -- WormRunner 18:54, 3 July 2006 (UTC)