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I raised the point previously as to how this will be decided, with has more relevance now that Mav seems to be retreating from his previous position. If it is a straight numerical thing, the American view is bound to prevail, despite the fact that the proponents of lower case contribute so little to actually writing the wildlife articles. <BR>
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Are we also going to insist on standardising names, so that the lead article has to be Common Loon, rather than as at present, Great Northen Diver (with a redirect).. and as for spelling! ( incidently, the group article is Loon - I wouldn't want to be chauvinist about this).<BR>
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The problems with using scientific names for the article titles have I think been adequately dealt with, but in any case wouldn't help in the text. You can't really write about Anas platyrhychos instead of Mallard. <BR>
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yours in deep gloom<BR>
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Jim<BR>
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