They don't *need* to be capitalised, that's just the international convention. If someone went out and said" Instead of writing species as Genus species, I'll write it as GeNuS sPeCiEs" he wouldn't be wrong, but it's not the convention. We should use the typical conventions of the world. I personally think Wikipedia should try to use mostly metric measurments, only American for clarification, because that's what almost all of the world uses.
--- Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Tony Wilson wrote:
Everyone working in the area knows perfectly well that
species names are
capitalised,
Arrogant sophistry!
This is the logical fallacy of [[Appeal to common practice]]
Ec
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