Talk:Pseudomonadota

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I'm not sure if renaming the article to Pseudomonadota is an appropriate choice yet. Whilst this is the name officially recognised by the ICSP, the change is very recent, and the standard for most Wikipedia articles is to use the typical, common name for organisms. Proteobacteria is the name you will find in every textbook and general interest article, while a Google Scholar search for 'Pseudomonadota' returns a total of ten results; one of which is a comment from Nature Reviews Microbiology criticising the ICSP for the superfluous renaming. Significantly, tens of thousands of academic articles written after the change still use Proteobacteria.

If, in the future, the microbiology community accepts the ICSP change and this comes into general usage, the Wiki article should be changed. For as long as the renaming is ignored by most professionals, though, I think it's sufficient to mention this somewhere on the Proteobacteria page.Kaficek (talk) 19:14, 13 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 18 March 2022

It has been proposed in this section that Pseudomonadota be renamed and moved to Proteobacteria.

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Pseudomonadota → Proteobacteria – Proteobacteria was renamed Pseudomonadota by the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes only in October 2021. Whilst ICSP is the relevant authority, the standard naming convention for articles about organisms in Wikipedia uses the common name. A Google Scholar search for Pseudomonadota returns, at the time I write this comment, only 12 results, one of which is the article publishing the new name and one of which is a comment criticising the decision. By contrast, a search for Proteobacteria returns 4,630 results published in 2022. Regardless of the official name for the clade, Preoteobacteria clearly remains the most commonly used name by an enormous margin, and should remain the primary name for the Wikipedia article until that changes (as it seems to on every other language Wikipedia. 21:38, 18 March 2022 (UTC)Kaficek (talk)