Talk:Crex

Crex was one of the Natural sciences good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
September 17, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed
October 22, 2011	Featured topic candidate	Promoted
September 30, 2020	Featured topic removal candidate	Demoted

Current status: Delisted good article

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Merge proposal[edit]

So the IOC has changed taxonomy for Crex. It is now a monotypic genus for corn crake. Looking at the current Crex article, it now looks like it should be merged with corn crake, which I did, but an editor suggested I discuss it first before moving....thoughts???Pvmoutside (talk) 8:24, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

With the placement of the African crake in its own monotypic genus Crecopsis, it leaves the corn crake as the only species in the genus Crex. For monotypic genera English wikipedia merges the genus article into the species article - see WP:MONOTYPICFAUNA. Thus this article should be a redirect to corn crake. I see no reason to make an exception in this case. -Aa77zz (talk) 15:37, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. This combo article would be somewhat superfluous in any case, as both corn crake and African crake are very well developed and duplicate everything here. With the genus becoming monotypic, it's an obvious redirect. I put up a merge template because there might be material here that should be moved over (haven't checked in detail, it's a bit long for a diagonal read). --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 23:19, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]