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[edit] Name
Looking at what links here, I think this page should be moved Ploceidae. — Pekinensis 02:50, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Social or Sociable Weaver
I changed the common name given for Philetairus socius to "Sociable Weaver" because
- Philetairus "Sociable Weaver" gets 81 hits at Google Scholar; Philetairus "Social Weaver" gets 10 hits, of which at least three call it the Sociable Weaver too (and include the phrase "Social Weaver" in reference to Pseudonigrita). In a similar search at Google Books, "Sociable Weaver" wins 50 to 27; again some of the hits with "Social Weaver" use "Sociable Weaver" for Philetairus socius.
- Birds of Southern Africa by Sinclair, Hockey, and Tarboton, as well as the book of the same title by van Perlo, call it Sociable.
- The IUCN calls it Sociable.
Against this, HBW and Clements call it Social. But "Sociable" is clearly the more familiar name to both ornithologists and birders, so I think we can overrule HBW. —JerryFriedman 05:06, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
