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Requested move 7 January 2022

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved. Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 04:51, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]


– Wiki uses Latin transliteration for Ancient Greek proper nouns, per WP:GREEK. Furius (talk) 20:16, 6 January 2022 (UTC) Furius (talk) 20:16, 6 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Lennart97 (talk) 10:24, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I do a lot of work with insect articles, and conflicts between genus names and non-taxonomic articles is moderately common. Personally, I follow this rule of thumb: if the non-taxonomic article is (A) more than a paragraph or two, AND (B) the *main header* of the article is the source of conflict (i.e., not an alternate spelling or such), then it is preferable to have the genus name article with a sub-header, as in the case proposed here - "Cibyra (moth)". There are relatively few exceptions to this general rule, mostly when the genus name refers to a really well-known insect, or when there are simply so many different articles that essentially ALL of them have sub-headers, or the insect uses its common name as the article header rather than its genus name (e.g., Apis). The present case fits the criteria, I'd say - which it would not if the preferred spelling for the city was Kibyra. As such, I'd support the move, assuming caution is taken to ensure the links aren't badly disrupted, as is discussed above. Dyanega (talk) 16:27, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.