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{{u|Enwebb}} Please show me where 'Caribbean white tent-making bat' is cited? Also, most "other names" in articles are not cited on Wikipedia. Simply do a search for Cotton Ball Bat and you wil come up with over 23 million results. I would say that qualifies, as the name has been used for a long time regarding this bat. [[User:Battykin|Battykin]] ([[User talk:Battykin|talk]]) 19:39, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
:{{u|Battykin}}, we follow reliable sources. I added the citation that supports "Caribbean white tent-making bat". Just because flying foxes are colloquially called "sky puppies" doesn't mean that that should necessarily be introduced to the lead of the article, for example. An exact Google Scholar search for "cotton ball bat" and "cottonball bat" has no results. [[User:Enwebb|Enwebb]] ([[User talk:Enwebb|talk]]) 19:51, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
::{{u|Enwebb}} Hi. I'm well aware that we do not include any old nickname. "Sky puppy" is a recent nickname that some everyday people use to describe a bat, and because it's quite new, it is not really considered a nickname for bats. Maybe in the future it will be. I personally do not like that name, but that is irrelevant to the point. Cotton ball bat has been used by zoologists and people in media when talking about the Honduran white bat. The source you added refers to them by their latin name. They loosely use the words Caribbean white tent-making bat, but that is their own choice of words to describe it. If you actually click on the sources they cited in that very same source, they do not use that term. Instead, they refer to it as a Honduran white bat. This type of bat is a tent-making bat, but one can argue that it's not called a "Caribbean white tent-making bat". Cotton ball bat can be argued the same way. I am okay with not including it, but the bottom line is that it is a term used for a long time, unlike "sky puppy" which is loosely used to describe bats in general. There is no comparison with the two terms, in my opinion. [[User:Battykin|Battykin]] ([[User talk:Battykin|talk]]) 20:34, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
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