- 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: Page moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) Jerm ( talk) 18:17, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
Largest living flying birds according to wingspan → Largest living flying birds by wingspan – Per WP:CONCISE and WP:PRECISE/ WP:RECOGNIZABLE. This barely comes across as proper English, as "according to" normally refers to a source of information/claims/beliefs (e.g. "according to Encyclopaedia Britannica" or "according to John Cleese" or "according to Zen Buddhist doctrine"). To the extent this particular usage has any currency at all (maybe it's common in some dialect I'm not steeped in), it's certainly unnecessary verbiage when "by" will do, and is what we normally use in articles that are lists of X that are the most/least Y by criterion Z. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 16:29, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
- Support per nom. – DarkGlow ( contribs • talk) 16:56, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
- Support per standard Wikipedia convention. — Goszei ( talk) 09:03, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Largest living flying birds according to wingspan which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — RMCD bot 18:20, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
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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: Page moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) Jerm ( talk) 18:17, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
Largest living flying birds according to wingspan → Largest living flying birds by wingspan – Per WP:CONCISE and WP:PRECISE/ WP:RECOGNIZABLE. This barely comes across as proper English, as "according to" normally refers to a source of information/claims/beliefs (e.g. "according to Encyclopaedia Britannica" or "according to John Cleese" or "according to Zen Buddhist doctrine"). To the extent this particular usage has any currency at all (maybe it's common in some dialect I'm not steeped in), it's certainly unnecessary verbiage when "by" will do, and is what we normally use in articles that are lists of X that are the most/least Y by criterion Z. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 16:29, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
- Support per nom. – DarkGlow ( contribs • talk) 16:56, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
- Support per standard Wikipedia convention. — Goszei ( talk) 09:03, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Largest living flying birds according to wingspan which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — RMCD bot 18:20, 27 March 2021 (UTC)