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 _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org
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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 _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org
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 On 8 May 2014, at 10:11 pm, Carl Clifford <carlsclifford@gmail.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org
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 _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org