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Revision as of 12:22, 15 February 2003 by Mintguy (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Misplaced Pages:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149
There seems a fair deal of confusion about namimg animals and plants. The normal convention is that English names of species begin with capitals, eg--Magnificent Frigatebird, but groups are lower case and, usually, plural as in the frigatebirds.
Binomial scientific names are written with a capitalised generic name and lower case specific name, Fregata magnificens. Higher taxonomic groupings are always capitalised.
Should these guideline be part of the Misplaced Pages conventions, assuming that they are not already? jimfbleak 16:28 Feb 14, 2003 (UTC)
What about raptor/raptors or bird of prey/birds of prey jimfbleak 14:54 Feb 14, 2003 (UTC). Some 40 group monographs advertised in a birders' magazine used the plural invariablly for the title, eg Owls of the World. It is standard practice to use the plural for groups, eg woodpeckers, and capitalised singular for species, eg Great Spotted Woodpecker Jimfbleak
- I didn't move it. I did make a link to frigatebird more direct, and remove a self-reference. It is standard practice in Encyclopaedias to name things in the singular and not the plural. Look at raptor in Encylopaedia Britannica . Mintguy
Ok jimfbleak 17:00 Feb 14, 2003 (UTC)
Your picture of a vulture Image:Flvulture62.jpg was very nice, but it was a bit big (in both pixels and bytes) and also a bit washed out, so I made it smaller and brought the colour/brightness levels up. Mintguy
One more thing, please don't make redirects to pages that don't exist yet. You end up with a broken link (i.e. one that looks like it works but doesn't e.g. Common Loon. Mintguy