User:Frostly/Moving pages related to monotypic fauna

Pages about genera with only one child species within them (monotypic fauna) should be moved to the name of the genus, not the species. You can help!

Why?

Policy

The article titles policy says that Article titles should be recognizable, concise...and consistent. Moving monotypic fauna pages helps titles to be more recognizable as the title is made into a word that is recognizable if you were looking for either the genus or the species, but with the species name as a title it is harder to recognize if you were looking for the genus. Moving makes page titles more concise because the title is shortened from two words to one. Finally, these name changes assist in making article names more consistent since generally article titles for monotypic fauna already follow this convention (see Guideline section below).

Guideline

The section for naming conventions for monotypic fauna suggests that pages should go under the scientific name of...the monotypic genus. Redirects should be created from the other ranks to the actual article. The guideline also lists exceptions that are important to read, however, including how to deal with disambiguation pages.

How?

Let's say that:

Page A is the original page (e.g. Telephirca quadrifariella)

Page B is the page we want to move to (e.g. Telephirca)

• Get page title of page A
• Remove text after space and the space itself to get page B
• Check if page B is a single-revision redirect (rare because of redirect categorization)
• If so, move the page over that redirect, while leaving a redirect
  • Then, with the previous page name (now a redirect), add the {{R to monotypic taxon}} redirect category
• If not, follow the round-robin page moving instructions. Do note that you need page mover permissions to do this step (sorry!)
• Then, with the previous page name (now a redirect), add the {{R to monotypic taxon}} redirect category

And we're done! This might seem hard and complex at first, but it gets much easier with time. This search finds potential move candidates; what I usually do is look for page titles with spaces in the search, but sometimes they can be space-less. Happy editing!