[WikiEN-l] naming convention for birds and others

[JFrost8401 at aol.com]

One other point with regard to the everlasting capitalisation debate is that 
it  is usually argued that non-specialist encyclopedias use lower case, and 
only specialist handooks like HBW, HANZAB and BWP use capitals.

If it is being seriously suggested that Wikien should be the same as a paper 
encyclopedia (or on-line version thereof), can I suggest the following to 
bring other aspects into line.

1) Standardise spelling and names as American English (this solves the 
capitalisation problem too, since you lose the European and Australian contributors 
who write 90% of the animal/bird articles at a stroke. 

2) Get rid of articles you wouldn't find in a "proper" encyclopedia, such as 
lists of people called Fred, album play lists, articles on "fisting" , lists 
of famous Hungarians etc. (I'll help on this.)

3) If you do item 1, then you can also revert the many US-centric articles, 
which just assume there are no other countries that matter, back to their 
original unsullied versions.

Hope this is (sort of) helpful

Jim
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