<DIV>I think the rule of capitalising things for scientific purposes would work well.<BR><BR><B><I>Ray Saintonge <saintonge@telus.net></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">daniwo59@aol.com wrote:<BR><BR>> Where was the discussion for the naming convention for animals. A new <BR>> user is reverting the Canada goose, and I really don't want to get <BR>> into that whole fight again.<BR>><BR>> Danny<BR><BR>It was never resolved.<BR>According to the The Globe and Mail Style Book: "The generic English <BR>names of animals and plants, and common adjectives attached to them, are <BR>lower-case". Certainly the provisions of a Canadian style book should <BR>apply to a Canadian species.<BR><BR>Also the Style Manual for Biological Journals as "Prepared by the <BR>Committee on Form and Style of the Conference of Biological Editors of <BR>the American Institute of Biological Sciences" states at page 68, <BR>"Generic names used as vernacular names are neither italicized nor <BR>capitalized"<BR><BR>In all fairness one on-line site (also Canadian) <BR>http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/courses.hp/biol335/Lecture8-9.html does <BR>note "that the common names of birds are now usually capitalized". <BR>"Usually" is important here; it is not in the form of a rule, but <BR>appears to reflect a custom.<BR><BR>This exception applies only to birds. The material is at best <BR>contradictory <BR><BR>Eclecticology<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>WikiEN-l mailing list<BR>WikiEN-l@wikipedia.org<BR>http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><p><hr SIZE=1>
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