Talk:Anemone ranunculoides
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[edit] Capitalisation
In removing (for the second time!) capital letters from the common names I have followed common practice as used, for instance, in the publications of the British Royal Horticultural Society. This practice is also acknowledged (though not universally followed) on Wikipedia. Below I quote from a Wiki page on naming conventions: Wikipedia:Proper_names#Biological common names
- Ornithologists also depart from tradition followed by most other biologists (my italics) in insisting that the common names of birds be first-letter capitalized where the reference is to a particular species. Thus one can write about a penguin, or specifically about the Emperor Penguin, the latter being the proper (common) name of the species, Aptenodytes forsteri. Non-specialists may have difficulty determining which form to use in some cases (for example, is it mallard or Mallard?), but it is likely most references to bird species will eventually be seen and edited by an ornithologist.
I take this to mean that any articles which are about species other than birds should not use capitals for common names. SiGarb 01:19, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
