<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3>One other point with regard to the everlasting capitalisation debate is that it is usually argued that non-specialist encyclopedias use lower case, and only specialist handooks like HBW, HANZAB and BWP use capitals.<BR>
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If it is being seriously suggested that Wikien should be the same as a paper encyclopedia (or on-line version thereof), can I suggest the following to bring other aspects into line.<BR>
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1) Standardise spelling and names as American English (this solves the capitalisation problem too, since you lose the European and Australian contributors who write 90% of the animal/bird articles at a stroke. <BR>
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2) Get rid of articles you wouldn't find in a "proper" encyclopedia, such as lists of people called Fred, album play lists, articles on "fisting" , lists of famous Hungarians etc. (I'll help on this.)<BR>
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3) If you do item 1, then you can also revert the many US-centric articles, which just assume there are no other countries that matter, back to their original unsullied versions.<BR>
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Hope this is (sort of) helpful<BR>
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Jim</FONT></HTML>