Oliver wrote If the majority of experts on fauna call an animal the "Aardvark", and the majority of non-experts call it the "aardvark", then the majority of our potential *readership* call it the "aardvark". So that's what our usual naming convention says that *we* should call it, too. We shouldn't make special cases just for one particular group of people without a better reason than just because that's how they do it themselves.
The thing is, we are an ENCYCLOPÆDIA. (BTW, I am not shouting. I just can't do italics here!!!) As such we should strive as much as possible for accuracy and that includes accuracy in capitalisation. We can use redirects to deal with commonly understood names/titles/use of capitalisation, etc. But we should as an encyclopædia aim to be an accurate factual source of information, not aim simply to produce commonly understood but inaccurate information. For example, millions of people think Queen Elizabeth II is 'queen of England'. In fact she isn't and couldn't be as England ceased to exist as a separate kingdom in 1707. So we have a redirect page based on the wrong but commonly understood title, but the actual page is on the correctly titled page. So someone coming to the page is able to go away knowing the 'correct' facts, including the correct title, knowing more when they leave than when they came to it.
That is what an encyclopædia is, a source of factual information that educates people looking for information. If the grey-haired longtail buzzard is correctly called the Grey Haired, Longtail Buzzard of Ohio, then a person coming to wiki should be able to find that out and know that leaving wiki. We aren't a tabloid newspaper that can aim for a general low-brow standard. Encyclopædias have to aim to produce the highest standard of educational information. People should come to wiki to get more information than they possess, not simply to reflect the standard they came with. The very fact that they are searching for more information means they are not satisfied they have enough and need more. If wiki gets a reputation for not being accurate, just being there, what is the point of wiki? Accuracy involves such basic facts as correct spelling and correct capitalisation. So Tannin is correct to try to get things as accurate as possible in the area of capitalisation.
JT
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