Over and over again, a small number of good, decent Wikipedia contributors are causing difficulties for those of us who are actually doing the hard yards in the fauna articles. All the major contributors to the bird entries, for example, have complained about this on the talk pages, but nothing is ever done. People keep claiming that, for example, the Common Raven should be written as "common raven". One need only reach to the bookshelf and pick up a reference work to discover that this just ain't so. All we ask is that we follow our own naming convention:
I quote: "Unless the term you wish to create a page for is a proper noun OR IS OTHERWISE ALMOST ALWAYS CAPITALISED." Species names for the higher orders (and possibly the lower ones too) are indeed "almost always capitalised" and rightly so, as to do anything else is to court ambiguity and lose clarity.
We, the people WHO ACTUALLY WRITE THE ENTRIES have had a gut full of it. Please stop before the real contributors in this area get sick of the whole damn thing and take their effort elswhere.
Tony Wilson (Tannin) list@redhill.net.au