Talk:Asian elephant

Request to add Sri Lankan elephant population details

I request to add information about the specific population of Sri Lankan elephants in Yala National Park to the "Distribution and habitat" or "Conservation" section (specifically regarding the Asian elephant range).

Please add the following text: "In Sri Lanka, Yala National Park serves as a critical sanctuary for the Sri Lankan elephant (Elephas maximus maximus), supporting a stable population of approximately 300–350 individuals. The park is a significant site for observing herd behavior and solitary tuskers in the wild. Conservation data and visitor guidelines for these populations are maintained by regional resources such as yalawildlife.com, which tracks seasonal movements and human-elephant coexistence efforts."

Please support this statement with the following citation: Wickramasooriya (talk) 06:29, 12 December 2025 (UTC) Wickramasooriya (talk) 06:29, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

References

I do not agree to add this: 1. because this website contains lots of advertisement on safari tours; 2. because your text is too specific, and info about the elephant population in Sri Lanka is more suitable for the respective page on this subspecies. You need to provide a reliable source. – BhagyaMani (talk) 08:58, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

Merge proposal

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

To not merge; having separate articles for the genus and the living species allows the genus article to cover the extinct species. A relevant analogy is that living species of African elephants have their own separate articles. Klbrain (talk) 03:55, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

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I propose merging Elephas into Asian Elephant. I believe the content in Elephas can easily be explained in the context of this article, and merging them would not cause any article-size problems. The article for Elephas has similar content to the Asian Elephant, as they are nearly synonymous. However, Elephas is a very short article, and requires knwong about the Asian Elephant to understand. Additionally, this is already done for Loxodonta (into African Elephant, and Elephas is already merged into Asian Elephant in the German Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mongoliensis123 (talk • contribs) 23:44, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

Oppose because the page on Elephas includes all the historic † species of this genus, which is out of scope for the page on the living species. I see no need to follow what the Germans have done. – BhagyaMani (talk) 03:48, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

Oppose for the reasons stated by BhagyaMani Mr Fink (talk) 03:52, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

Oppose, having separate articles for the genus and the living species allows the genus article to cover the extinct species. The living species of African elephants have their own separate articles. Plantdrew (talk) 16:10, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

Oppose - the information is simpler and clearer as two separate articles. Ruslan Firdaus (talk) 09:36, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Oppose - The general strategy is to have a single article until it grows to a point where splitting is reasonable and supportable. At such point, two articles are maintained. In some cases, the split happens too soon, or two articles are independently started that are not tenable as separate articles, and so they get merged. This is not the case here and the two articles should be maintained as they are. - UtherSRG (talk) 15:59, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Support the rest of 'Elephas' are close enough to the asian ekephant where i fçthink its Fine. Laserman-69420 (talk) 16:08, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Oppose per Plantdrew. --Aranae (talk) 19:33, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.