Talk:Mauritia flexuosa

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: page moved to Mauritia flexuosa. DrKiernan (talk) 10:01, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

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Moriche Palm → Moriche palm – -> sentence case species common name as specified in WP:MOS. WolfmanSF (talk) 06:04, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

• Comment: This is the wrong move to be discussing: I would support a move to Mauritia flexuosa per WP:FLORA. It gets a factor of 10 more Google Scholar hits than the purported current common name title. The scientific name still gets more Ghits than the other vernacular names, such as Aguaje. The scientific name, therefore, is the most commonly used name to refer to this species in reliable sources. Rkitko ^(talk) 17:00, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

• This seems to be the smartest move. But I also support the move as proposed. --BDD (talk) 18:38, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

• Comment I also support a move to Mauritia flexuosa, since it is the most commonly used name, and oppose just changing the capitalization. First Light (talk) 15:48, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
• OK, I am happy to support a move to Mauritia flexuosa in preference to "Moriche palm". WolfmanSF (talk) 19:43, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

• Support move to Mauritia flexuosa. (I also support decapitalizing common names of plants, but I'm quite happy that, because the scientific name is preferable in this case, there's no need to have to go through that discussion again.) Tdslk (talk) 03:53, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

• Oppose proposed move, support move to scientific name. A series of Google Books searches shows that the most common common name is actually "Buriti palm", but the scientific name is most prevalent. Dohn joe (talk) 22:40, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

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anthropomorphism

may i suggest to exchange the word "elegant" in the first paragraph ("It is an elegant tree which can reach up to 35 metres in height.") against a less anthropomorphic word?--96.63.2.100 (talk) 18:15, 28 December 2013 (UTC)