Information for inclusion in Night Parrot
By Birding-Aus, on April 10th, 2013
Just as a matter of interest, there have been massive policy battles over this issue on Wikipedia (Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Archive_127#Cha nge_proposal_with_regard_to_common_names). Basically those editing bird related articles want the capitalisation, but nobody else does. I don’t think the capitalization convention is very common outside ornithology. Newspapers or the ABC, for example, usually don’t capitalise common names.
And tehn on a samilir ntoe, it has been swhon that as lnog as the fsirt and lsat ltetres are cerocrt, the barin can siltl uasdntenrd what is bineg siad!
So we can do away with spelling as well if we want.
I agree with Steve, capitalisation gets my vote (as done in Simpson and Day). That way there is no doubt as to whether it is a common name or a description or instruction.
Cheers
Bob
My laugh for the morning. Thanks Carl Denise Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow 1/7 Songlark Street, Bakewell, NT 0832 043 8650 835
On 10/4/13 9:00 PM, “wildlifeexperiences@gmail.com” wrote:
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Goodonya Carl, Painful it was…..
Yours in all things “green”
John Harris Croydon, Vic Owner – Wildlife Experiences Ecologist/Zoologist Nature Photographer Wildlife Guide wildlifeexperiences@gmail.com 0409090955
President, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (www.fncv.org.au)
Iamsurprisetheyhavnttriedtodoawaywithpunctuationandspacesbetweenwordsaswellyoucanstillunderstandwhatiswrittenprettywellthoughitmightbeapainafteracoupleofhundredpagescarlclifford
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