[WikiEN-l] RE: A plea for sanity in capitalisation from the coalface

Sun Apr 27 19:56:08 UTC 2003

Eclecticology wrote:
>...
> The fact that a certain cohort has currently been concentrating its
> attentions on the bird articles does not imply that it has any rights to
> insist on its own peculiar format.  We do have Wikipedia rules which, at
> least in this case, tend to be consistent with the usage of grammarians.
>  The burden of proof falls on the shoulders of those who seek to
> institute an exception to those rules.  I don't think that they have
> carried that burden, and their approach is "for the birds". ;-)
>...

Perhaps this exception can be only for the bird articles themselves... I await 
what other people have to say. I for one have /never/ used capitals for the 
common names of species but then again I haven't taken any courses in 
ornithology. 

--mav