Talk:Northern three-striped opossum

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: All Moved Alpha Quadrant ^talk 01:46, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

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Northern Three-striped Opossum → Northern three-striped opossum — inappropriate capitalization Relisting, consensus is close at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of life#English names of biological species Andrewa (talk) 19:19, 13 April 2011 (UTC) 96.251.199.126 (talk) 01:43, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

• Northern Red-sided Opossum → Northern red-sided opossum
• Northern Gracile Opossum → Northern gracile opossum
• Neblina Slender Opossum → Neblina slender opossum
• Narrow-headed Slender Opossum → Narrow-headed slender opossum
• Mexican Mouse Opossum → Mexican mouse opossum
• McIlhenny's Four-eyed Opossum → McIlhenny's four-eyed opossum
• Lutrine Opossum → Lutrine opossum
• Long-tailed Gracile Mouse Opossum → Long-tailed gracile mouse opossum
• Long-nosed Short-tailed Opossum → Long-nosed short-tailed opossum
• Linnaeus's Mouse Opossum → Linnaeus's mouse opossum
• Kalinowski's Mouse Opossum → Kalinowski's mouse opossum
• Isthmian Mouse Opossum → Isthmian mouse opossum
• Ihering's Three-striped Opossum → Ihering's three-striped opossum
• Heavy-browed Mouse Opossum → Heavy-browed mouse opossum
• Handley's Slender Opossum → Handley's slender opossum
• Guianan White-eared Opossum → Guianan white-eared opossum
• Guajira Mouse Opossum → Guajira mouse opossum
• Grayish Mouse Opossum → Grayish mouse opossum
• Gray Slender Opossum → Gray slender opossum
• Gray Short-tailed Opossum → Gray short-tailed opossum
• Gray Four-eyed Opossum → Gray four-eyed opossum
• Emilia's Short-tailed Opossum → Emilia's short-tailed opossum
• Emilia's Gracile Opossum → Emilia's gracile opossum
• Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum → Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum
• Dwarf Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum → Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum
• Dusky Slender Opossum → Dusky slender opossum
• Dorothys' Slender Opossum → Dorothy's slender opossum

• Support all: Proper capitalization. –CWenger (talk) 01:28, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
• Support based on WP:CAPS#Organisms, Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna)#Capitalisation of common names of species, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Animals, plants, and other organisms. - Station1 (talk) 06:40, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose: I prefer the status quo, as they are all proper names. In the mean time, I have moved Dorothys' Slender Opossum to Dorothy's Slender Opossum, as the apostrophe was in the wrong place. If moved again it should be to Dorothy's slender opossum. Moonraker2 (talk) 20:35, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Fixed RM. — kwami (talk) 22:12, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

• Support, based on the conventions cited by Station1, above. I've had to deal with issues with this inappropriate capitalisation on conservation articles I work on. Rennell435 (talk) 13:43, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
• I think it's time to do this, given that there's only one objection here, and no sign at the Tree of Life talk page that people consider opossums subject to different rules than ordinary animal species. Any reason not to close and proceed with the moves?--Kotniski (talk) 16:25, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

  Also note that two nearly identical other move requests were initiated at the same time: Talk:Derby's Woolly Opossum#Requested move and Talk:Virginia Opossum#Requested move. I'm not sure why it wasn't all one rm. Both of the others were closed as move. ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 17:13, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

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