Well, I looked at [[Red-winged Blackbird]]. It follows the usual convention, capitalization in title but not in text, until you "tidied it up" and changed the instances in the text to capitalized. The problem is that red-winged blackbird is not a proper noun. Not sure how many of these you did and it does seem unfair to ask you go back and try to find all of these that you changed, but the "fait accompli" seems to be of your own making.
Fred
From: JFrost8401@aol.com
Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 07:06:04 EDT
To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] naming convention for birds and others
In a message dated 04/06/03 11:48:07 GMT Daylight Time, fredbaud@ctelco.net writes:
The only problem I can see with this policy (which is that in titles the proper name in English of a species is capitalized) is that links from text, to link directly, would have to also be capitalized in that text. This is contrary to the usual usage, as species names are not proper nouns and ought not to be capitalized in text.
Fred
If you look at the majority of the fauna articles, the text links are there, or potentially there if a link has not been made. Try [[hummingbird]] or [[whale]] for example. One practical problem with reverting from the current policy is that literally thousands of text changes would have to be made (with the additional problem that some would still be partially capitalised, eg Wilson's Phalarope, because of the proper name.
hope this helps
Jim (jimfbleak)