Talk:Loriini

message: It might make more sense to roll the Lory and Lorikeet articles together under the title "Lories and Lorikeets". Many reference books use 'Lory' to refer to both lories and lorikeets (ie. Handcock House Encyclopedia of the Lories, Mivart's Monograph of the Lories.)Individuals searching Wikipedia for Lory, Lorikeet, or Brush-tounged parrot should be redirected to this article. The Alice in Wonderland reference should be handled in the same way as the other fictional animals in the book. 
In the pet industry, the term 'lorikeet' is used to refer to members of the loriidae family with long tails. In aviculture, is quite common to see the two terms used interchangeably when describing the long-tailed members. For example, Stella's Lory is also referred to as Stella's Lorikeet, Green-naped lory is the same as Green-naped Lorikeet.
Does anyone else agree with this? Voodlecat 13:54, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Most links go to "Lorikeet" at the present time, and there are only a few links going to the "Lory" page.  Perhaps the page could be called "Loriinae", but it is a wiki guideline to use the most widely used name as page names.  I think that a consensus is needed before someone does a lot of work changing all the links.  Your suggestion of "Lories and Lorikeets" is a good idea.  I will make it a redirect at the present time to make it linkable.  A page can be moved over a redirect. Snowman 10:51, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah yes, determining which is the most commonly used term is the rub. In my circle (owners of various species of this subfamily) the term "lory" can refer to either the long-tailed or short-tailed species (Edward's Lory/lorikeet), but "lorikeet" is never used to refer to the short-tailed species (ex. Balck Lory). In that sense "lorikeet" is a subset of "lory". Also, I did a quick analysis of the common names within the subfamily and it was 67% lory over lorikeet. On the other hand, most individuals encounter these types of parrots at zoos or pet stores where the majority of species are of the trichoglossus genus (green-nape, blue mountain or Swainson's) which are referred to as "lorikeets" in their native land of Australia. And to further the confusion, Rosemary Low uses the terms interchangably. I still think that "Lories and Lorikeets" is the best suited title.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Voodlecat (talk • contribs) 22:43, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps, "Lories and lorikeets" and they are not proper nouns. Snowman 19:04, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Now moved and redirects fixed. Snowman 22:41, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Lorikeet"- a subset of "Lory" 

message: Can we ask why the historical discovery of the Lorys was removed by snowman?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.142.130.46 (talk) 14:23, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lory discoveries? 

message: Not sure how to add an external link to the diet part of this article.  It is information I know from owning lorikeets but it seems support for statements is desirable.  Supporting info from http://birds.about.com/od/feeding/tp/poisonousfoods.htm
I have permission from the original author to use her article.
Hi Ilja,
Thanks for writing, and thanks for reading About Pet Birds. Of course you
may link to my article on Wikipedia. I'm glad that you found it
informative and flattered that you would like to include it in your entry.
Thank you!
Best Wishes,
Alyson Burgess
Guide to Pet Birds
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About.com is part of the New York Times Company  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Azuron (talk • contribs) 09:45, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference

message: From loro (Spanish), roro (Cariban origin)?--达伟 (talk) 22:21, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Word etymology 

message: The photo has the species name as H.t. moluccanus. Should be T.h. moluccanus. And I saw that error propagated to a photo in National Geographic 2012 Photo contest.
208.61.97.117 (talk) 12:59, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo correction 

message: The lead, category and navbox call this tribe "Lorini", while the infobox has "Loriini", which sounds more convincing to me given the subfamily name "Loriinae" and the genus "Lorius". Could someone clarify this? Thanks, ἀνυπόδητος (talk) 20:45, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lorini vs. Loriini 

message: Traditionally, they were considered a separate subfamily (Loriinae) from the other subfamily (Psittacinae) based on the specialized characteristics, but recent molecular and morphological studies show that the group is positioned in the middle of various other groups. 
should this be genetic? ∈Sensorsweep (talk) 04:08, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  molecular? 

message: Perhaps there should be a note at the top of the page for those looking for the truck—especially if there's a redirect from "Lories" to this page.  Granted, the spelling is different, but some people using mobile devices will get it wrong. Will (Talk - contribs) 22:51, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: as you may have noted since writing this comment, some time ago now, articles titles are usually singular [lorry, not lorries], and this exception is something I propose to rectify. Regards, cygnis insignis 15:11, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  &ldquo;Lorries&rdquo; are also a term in the UK for a truck.