Talk:New World blackbird

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question the notability and usefulness of this article

At present, this article is a list of birds in the Americas with the name "blackbird", which the article states "do not correspond with a formal taxon", and which is redundant with a portion of the list of birds in the article Blackbird. I question the notability. If birds sharing the name "blackbird" are not a formal taxon, what is notable about them? A reader interested in reading about the family of birds that includes Brewer's blackbirds should be directed to the Icterid article. Otherwise, I imagine anyone not already familiar with the fact that Brewer's blackbirds are in the same family as grackles, orioles, and meadowlarks would be vanishingly unlikely to type in "New World blackbirds" as a search. He or she would type in "grackle", "oriole", or "meadowlark", and from there would learn that these birds are all icterids. On the other hand, if a reader was interested in reading about Old World blackbirds, he or she would type in "blackbird" and would go to the Blackbird article, and from there could find articles of interest. In what scenario does a reader benefit from a simple list of birds in the Americas with the name "blackbird"? Indeed, I think this article is actually misleading to the uninformed and casual reader who does not carefully comprehend the first sentence, because a simple glance a the list would give someone the impression that this is a formal taxon, and then they would be unlikely to continue on the Icterid article, and thus be cheated of learning something new.--Brambleshire (talk) 13:39, 5 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]