This topic has been covered many times here, so it's probably worth a browse
through the archives before commenting further.
I recall in a previous conversation that someone posted a link to an article
discussing the pros and cons of using capitals vs lowercase, but I can't find
it. If someone knows of it then please post it here, as I think it covered
prety much everything.
Peter Shute
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Birding-Aus
> On Behalf Of Andy Burton
> Sent: Friday, 9 May 2014 1:43 PM
> To: Carl Clifford
> Cc: <>
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Bird names on wikipedia
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>
> Hmmm, having just read this news I came upon the following
> description of what I presume is a bird species; namely, a
> black-throated gray warbler.
>
> I have no idea what this bird is and seek help to ascertain
> its identification.
>
> Is it possibly a black-throated, gray Warbler, a
> black-throated Gray Warbler, a Black-throated Gray Warbler,
> or is it a songbird, the Black-throated Gray warbler?
>
> Wish people would leave useful grammatical rules alone :-)
>
> Andy
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> On 8 May 2014, at 10:11 pm, Carl Clifford
> <> wrote:
>
> > Cas,
> >
> > Why am I not surprised. Another cause for a cry of sic
> transit etc. i liked the way you have typed Wikipedia in lower case.
> >
> > Carl Clifford
> >
> >> On 8 May 2014, at 21:09, "Cas Liber" <> wrote:
> >>
> >> If anyone is interested/amused,
> >> A several year standoff ended on Wikipedia last month regarding
> >> capitalization of bird names. Several regulars (including me) who
> >> write on birds had kept around 9000 articles with
> capitalized names
> >> (as per IOC), however a group of editors who are interested in
> >> guidelines and conformity pushed for lower case renditions of bird
> >> names. A poll held fell firmly in favour of lower case
> names and the
> >> articles are all being rapidly de-capitalised...
> >>
> >> Cas
> >>
> >>
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