In a message dated 04/06/03 14:14:45 GMT Daylight Time, fredbaud@ctelco.net writes:

One of the counter-intuitive things a new Wikipedian has to adjust to is the convention on capitalization of titles: Only the first word is capitalized unless it is a proper noun. This is not natural as all words in a title are conventionally capitalized. We do that so that links from within text do not need to be capitalized.

In the case of species names we are now making an exception, creating another counter-intuitive requirement: in text all words in the name of a species must be capitalized. Again in contradiction to expected usage. Having adopted the convention that in titles all words in a species name are capitalized we are now forced to have them capitalized in text in order that links work.

So we have three choices: put the titles of species in the usual first word only capitalized format; capitalize all words of a species name in text; or made a redirect for each species to the all caps format.

This is not a major issue with me. I guess I only want to see a definite convention established.

Fred

it has been and I'm following the agreed policy until a new agreed one replaces it.

Jim