At 06:02 AM 6/4/03 -0600, Fred Bauder wrote:
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.
It may be relevant that I, rather than Jim, wrote that article. I have no strong opinion on the capitalization issue, but my impulse, based on how the rest of English works, is toward lower-case. That is, if I don't stop and think either way, I'll write "I saw a red-winged blackbird", no caps.
It's not a proper noun, but it is a species name.
And can everyone *PLEASE* turn the HTML off. I don't care if you want to read your email in black-on-yellow, but send it in plain text and let me make my own choices.