Talk:Phoenicopterus

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Replacement of a redirect with a short article

I replaced a redirect to the page Flamingo/Phoenicopteridae with a short article describing the genus Phoenicopterus. This change was reverted with the comment "Included in target". I believe that having a separate page on the genus Phoenicopterus is worthwhile - and this is the convention on English wikipedia (and is adopted on all the bird genera articles known to me)- if a family contains more that a single genus then there are separate articles for the family and for each genus. See the page WP:WikiProject_Tree_of_Life#Article_titles: "A useful heuristic is to create articles in a "downwards" order, that is, family articles first, then genus, then species.)

The family Phoenicopteridae contains 3 genera Phoenicopterus, Phoeniconaias and Phoenicoparrus. There is already a short article for the genus Phoenicoparrus and for the monotypic genus Phoeniconaias the genus is included with the species article (this is the convention for monotypic genera see: WP:WikiProject_Tree_of_Life#Article_titles)

My Phoenicopterus article contained information not present in the family article such as the original description of the genus by Linnaeus, ~~the etymology of the genus name~~ and the type species for the genus. Clearly more could be add to the Phoenicopterus article such as the distiguishing features (flamingos in the genus "have a relatively primitive feeding apparatus" (HBW)) -Aa77zz (talk) 14:45, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]