On Sunday 29 February 2004 22:38, John Knouse wrote:
I seem to be having an editing conflict with [[user:MPF|MPF]]. He is insisting on changing "tuliptree" to "Tulip tree" and "cucumbertree" to "Cucumber tree". We had a big discussion about the capitalization issue last year, though I don't think we discussed the compounding issue. Does anyone remember this? Didn't we decide for plants NOT to capitalize? In any case, all the authorities either compound or hyphenate; none of them use two separate words. See [[talk:Tulip tree]] for more.
I don't much care whether it's [[Tuliptree]] or [[Tulip tree]], as long as the other is a redirect, which it isn't right now (both pages have substantially identical content), and as long as they don't cut it down as they did the sycamore. (The Bradford pear, which was a few trees up, fell apart in the great ice storm.)
phma