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Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Contesting this. It remains Olive-backed Sunbird in IOC (version 13.2), which, as an international authority, is wikipedia's preferred ornithological authority. Ebird doesn't have any juristiction here. Please revert. - MPF (talk) 22:44, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 7 months ago3 comments2 people in discussion
These birds range from Southern China across SE Asia and Northern Australia. We had a pair breed successfully on our porch this year in N Qld. They are not limited to the Phillipines, and the article should describe the full range of the species. Charles Randles (talk) 12:26, 8 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
We had an article on the Olive-backed sunbird, a species that has a range across South-east Asia and Northeast Australia. That article has been repurposed, reduced, and edited down to a subspecies in the Phillipines.
The Olive-backed Sunbird still exists (we had a pair investigate our shrubbery for nesting today!) without a Wikipedia article.
May I suggest we roll back a while to a page that covers all subspecies of the Sunbird - not just the Philippines subspecies -- and then let the ardent Filipino Sunbird fans make their own page?
I feel that this narrowing of scope of a good, broad article to a regional subspecies has made our coverage less encyclopaedic.
I welcome other thoughts.
tl:dr: We had an article for a bird with a range across the whole of SE Asia and NE Australia. That article was repurposed to apply only to a regional subspecies. This was not a helpful change. Charles Randles (talk) 14:52, 10 May 2024 (UTC)Reply