Talk:Brants's whistling rat

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Did you know... that Brants's whistling rat (illustration shown) seldom ventures more than 30 cm (12 in) from one of the many entrances to its burrow?

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The following discussion is archived. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

No consensus to move. Ruslik_Zero 19:03, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move[edit]

Brants's Whistling Rat → Brants' Whistling Rat — Correct use of apostrophe to indicate poessive Leegee23 (talk) 12:00, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Oppose. "Brants's" is the correct use of the apostrophe. "Brants'" indicates a possessive form of more than one "Brant". "Brants's" is the possessive form of the singular word "Brants". --Aranae (talk) 12:29, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment ICUN lists both forms as being in use:http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/full/16270/0 . The question for WP purposes then is which is the most common? Mfield (Oi!) 03:12, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The animal only received a common name this decade. I guarantee that even people directly researching it have to look up what Musser and Carleton (2005) decided to call it if they have some reason to apply a common name. It's like other obscure muroids in that regard. I really think the point is what is grammatically correct (its current name). Correcting grammar wouldn't be OR. In this case the proposal is to force a name to be grammatically incorrect relative to Musser and Carleton (2005). --Aranae (talk) 11:35, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. The argument of the proposer appears to be that the current construction is incorrect. However, assuming that the person was called "Brants", then the correct possessive could be either Brants' or Brants's, depending on usage. I can see no good argument against the current name, and so no reason to change. Richard New Forest (talk) 10:05, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose. Either is correct grammatically, so no reason to change. I thought modern usage tended to towards 's even for names ending in "s", though I may be wrong. Aubergine (talk) 01:17, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – per WP:UCN the best page name for this article would be the scientific name of the species. --Una Smith (talk) 05:04, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Eponym[edit]

Its binomial name commemorates Anton Brants (1805–1862), Dutch zoologist, but I can't open this link to provide a reference. --Hanberke (talk) 20:59, 8 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. The link opened for me, so I have added the information and reference. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:40, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]