Talk:Gastralia

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Hmmm... this indicates gastralia have also been found in primitive ornithischian dinosaurs, too. Worth a mention, or has this been debunked? Firsfron of Ronchester 05:10, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

It was debunked in Claessens, 2004, but it's worth a mention. J. Spencer 14:29, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Requested move 9 March 2022

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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 20:10, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

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Gastralium → Gastralia – Even though a single element of the gastral basket is indeed called a gastralium, the bones being collectively referred to as gastralia is far more common than mention of a single gastralium, and this article is largely written to refer to the gastralia as a collective entity. Google Scholar gets 150 results for "gastralium" and 2,260 results for "gastralia", so use in the plural is more than an order of magnitude more common than the singular. "Gastralium" gets 5020 hits on Google (many of which are Wikipedia and its mirrors) and "gastralia" 44,200, providing nearly as high a ratio. Neither of the vertebrate anatomy textbooks I have ever use the singular form at all. Other than the title and lead sentence, this article itself uses "gastralia" thirteen times and "gastralium" only once, further emphasizing the rarity of use in the singular. According to WP:PLURAL, while singular article titles are generally preferred, there are noted exceptions, and I think this is a case where an exception is appropriate. Article titles listed in the exceptions such as Skew coordinates, where the article is on a system more so than the items individually, and Bacteria and Algae, where plural usage far exceeds the singular, provide appropriate precedent. "Gastralia" is clearly the most common name for the subject of the article by a wide margin, and should be favored. Ornithopsis (talk) 19:58, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

• Support per WP:PLURAL based on the Google Ngrams. Rreagan007 (talk) 19:11, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

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