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Latest comment: 10 years ago4 comments3 people in discussion

The following discussion is an archived discussion 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 proposal was moved by Materialscientist. --BDD (talk) 18:29, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Curlew Sandpiper → Curlew sandpiper
Green Sandpiper → Green sandpiper
Least Sandpiper → Least sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper → Pectoral sandpiper
Purple Sandpiper → Purple sandpiper
Red Knot → Red knot
Semipalmated Sandpiper → Semipalmated sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper → Solitary sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper → Spotted sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper → White-rumped sandpiper

– Invert the redirections as the consensus and guidelines recommend not to capitalise the common (vernacular) names of species. See Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Bird common name decapitalisation and Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Animals, plants, and other organisms. Coreyemotela (talk) 09:12, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Support, finally. If this is proceeding according to some category-walking patterns, be it taxonomic or geographical, that seems like a good idea. Anyone who's taking on the downcasing in the actual article text, please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Birds#The conversion is challenging; there are devils in the details. There's talk elsewhere of using bots or AWB scripts to move a lot of these articles and decapitalize within them, but I suspect this will be difficult to sort out, and the work might as well get started manually while that is worked up. A deeper question is how many of these are at IOC names that are not actually the WP:COMMONNAMEs, and thus need a different kind of move, for article titling policy reasons (many IOC names are made up by IOC and are unattested outside their own materials. Sometimes the scientific name is most common, in other cases other English-language or assimilated non-English names are common and the IOC ones are neologisms. In most cases the IOC names are fine. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼ 19:49, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
Y Pages were moved by Materialscientist (talk · contribs). Coreyemotela (talk) 17:32, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. 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.

Image from this article to appear as POTD soon

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Calidris ferruginea, winter adult, Pak Thale.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on 21 January 2019. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2019-01-21. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 13:10, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

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The curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) is a small wader that breeds on the tundra of Arctic Siberia. It is a strongly migratory bird, wintering mainly in Africa, but also in Australia, New Zealand, and south and southeast Asia. The curlew sandpiper is similar to the dunlin, and has a length of 18–23 cm (7.1–9.1 in) and wingspan of 38–41 cm (15–16 in). In breeding season it has a bright red underside. This picture shows a curlew sandpiper in Thailand, with its winter plumage.Photograph: JJ Harrison

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