Talk:Phyllobates bicolor

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significant figures

It is erroneous to take "150 micrograms" and restate it as ".0000004 ounces", because the first figure is only stating a value to an accuracy of two significant figures. The second purports an accuracy of seven, or in other words, five orders of magnitude more accurate (see 'spurious accuracy' in the significant figures article). This is a common error made by people converting units. --Leperflesh 21:59, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 16 June 2015

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The result of the move request was: moved. Jenks24 (talk) 14:00, 24 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Black-legged dart frog → Phyllobates bicolor – The commonest common name for this species seems to be "black-legged poison frog" (the one used by IUCN), but AmphibiaWeb uses "black leg poison dart frog", and many other names are also in use. However, even frog hobbyists commonly use the scientific name, which WP:NCFAUNA also endorses as the page title when no common name is clearly dominant. Micromesistius (talk) 12:33, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support per WP:COMMONNAME; the name most commonly used in reliable sources is the scientific name. Search engine tests have their flaws, but Google reports 29,500 hits for "Phyllobates bicolor" and 2,470 for "black-legged poison frog" (and less than that for the other vernacular names). It's not clear where the current title, "black-legged dart frog" came from; it may have been made up for Wikipedia as I have been unable to find any reliable sources (not sites scraping Wikipedia) that say that "black-legged dart frog" is a common name for this frog. Plantdrew (talk) 17:30, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support: I agree with what's been said. Also, from personal experience, scientific names are always preferred when species that share names are involved. As far as species are concerned I'm of the notion that we should standardise all names, but that's a different matter! It makes our work much easier as well. I'd be happy to move; perhaps a disamb for Black-legged is also in order? Regards, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 02:39, 17 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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