Talk:Horned gopher

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An incomplete move request at Wikipedia:Requested moves indicated that there was a proposal to move this page to the animal's scientific name. Below are the comments that the proposal generated there, which generally did not support a move. If the move is still desired, please file a full request using the procedure described at WP:RM. Thank you. Dekimasu よ! 08:51, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't actually contest the move, but animal article titles are covered under WP:ToL and common names may be used, this should be removed from here and discussed on the talk page of the article, then a consensus reached. —KP Botany 19:56, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: WP:TOL says: "In cases where there is a formal common name (e.g. birds), or when common names are well-known and reasonably unique, they should be used for article titles, except for plant articles. Scientific names should be used otherwise." I don't personally have any sense of whether "horned gopher" is "well-known" enough to qualify. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 23:32, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - Comment:As far as I know, they're either known as "Mygaulids" or "Epigaulus." I've never heard of "horned gopher" being used as a common name for them until Wikipedia, especially since most of the books that mention them make a big to-do about how they're related to sewells/mountain beavers.--Mr Fink 14:43, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  For the record, I first heard of them under the name "horned gopher". DS (talk) 12:57, 22 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  An informal name is not necessarily the most commonly used name. In this case it doesn't seem to be, and it should be moved to the scientific name. It even seems horned gopher could refer to the entire family, not just this one genus. FunkMonk (talk) 09:56, 3 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
After looking a bit around, why are we even so sure that "horned gopher" only refers to this particular genus, and not Mylagaulidae overall? Seems to be various references to the entire group by this name. FunkMonk (talk) 02:55, 7 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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