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How is the Honshu wolf a legendary creature of a shinto Kami?
I disagree. It includes animals cited "outside their normal range." This includes putatively extinct creatures being sighted. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 12:04, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
Can anyone advise me as to why this article is titled the Honshu wolf? Every reliable citation that I have found so far refers to Canis lupus hodophilax as the Japanese wolf. The background is that the Hokkaido wolf article commenced in 2004, it appears to have eventually covered both wolves, then on 15 FEB 2007 the Honshu wolf article was spun from it, and separately a Japanese wolf disimbag was put into place that points to both the Honshu and Hokkaido wolves. Why this article was called the Honshu wolf remains unclear, apart from administrative convenience at that time, and it is a misnomer as the wolf was found on more than just Honshu island. Unless there is a compelling reason not to, I propose that this article be relocated under the present redirect titled Japanese wolf, which is its common name, and the Honshu wolf page becomes a redirect to it. The Hokkaido wolf is a separate canid altogether and can stand on its own. Canis lupus lupus is still referred to as the Eurasian wolf, even though there are other subspecies found across Eurasia, and we have not given it a separate name; the Japanese wolf should be treated no differently. Regards, William Harris • talk • 22:10, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
I propose that the name of this article on Canis lupus hodophilax be WP:MOVED from Honshu wolf to Japanese wolf. The reason referred to in WP:MOVE is that "The subject of the article has changed its name and the new name has come into majority use." Rather than "Japanese wolf" being a term just used in Japan, NCBI/GenBank uses the "Japanese wolf" as the common name of for this subspecies:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=188536 and the authoritative The Lost Wolves of Japan has referred to the "Japanese wolf" since its first edition back in 2005. The Taxonomy section of this article will show a number of modern sources referring to the "Japanese wolf", including scientists from Japan: Ishiguro (2009, 2010, 2016), Matsumura (2014) and elsewhere: Pang (2009), Deluba (2015) and Lee (2015). Regards, William Harris • WikiProject Mammals • talk • 21:44, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: MOVED - thanks for your participation and comments William Harris • talk • 09:16, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
Honshu wolf → Japanese wolf – The subject of the article has changed its name and the new name has come into majority use. Rather than Japanese wolf being a term just used in Japan, NCBI/GenBank uses the Japanese wolf as the common name of for this subspecies:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=188536 and the authoritative The Lost Wolves of Japan has referred to the Japanese wolf since its first edition back in 2005. The Taxonomy section of this article will show a number of modern sources referring to the Japanese wolf, including scientists from Japan: Ishiguro (2009, 2010, 2016), Matsumura (2014) and elsewhere: Pang (2009), Deluba (2015) and Lee (2015).William Harris (talk) 22:03, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello oknazevad, 7&6=thirteen, FunkMonk, RGloucester and SMcCandlish. Thank you for your support in renaming the Honshu wolf to the Japanese wolf. The page once had less than 30 watchers and approximately 75 visits per day. Over the past week since the renaming, it now has 43 watchers and between 200-250 visits each day. I regard this as having been a successful move.
Regarding the other wolf of the Japanese archipelago, I have proposed moving the Hokkaido wolf to the Ezo wolf, refer Talk:Hokkaido wolf#Requested move 23 April 2016. This is a much more complex issue, was proposed 5 days ago but with no response at all. I am now promoting the move more widely, so if you have a position either way, please vote. I would like to bring the issue to a close either one way or the other. Regards, William Harris • talk • 10:15, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
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