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== Rationale for capitalisation? == |
== Rationale for capitalisation? == |
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According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_%28fauna%29#Capitalisation_of_common_names_of_species, where we read, "In general, common (vernacular) names of flora and fauna should be written in sentence case — for example, "oak" or "lion". This means names are written in lower case except for proper nouns or words that start a sentence." shouldn't it be written "European black pine", i.e. uncapitalised? I am having real trouble finding the proper conventions, never mind establishing whether they have been adhered to or if not, as in this case, what the rationale is. |
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_%28fauna%29#Capitalisation_of_common_names_of_species, where we read, "In general, common (vernacular) names of flora and fauna should be written in sentence case — for example, "oak" or "lion". This means names are written in lower case except for proper nouns or words that start a sentence." shouldn't it be written "European black pine", i.e. uncapitalised? I am having real trouble finding the proper conventions, never mind establishing whether they have been adhered to or if not, as in this case, what the rationale is. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/188.2.186.231|188.2.186.231]] ([[User talk:188.2.186.231|talk]]) 11:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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Removed pending verification of the valid scientific publication of the name:
- Pinus nigra subsp. nigra var. italica Villetta Barrea Pine
- Pinus nigra subsp. nigra var. italica Villetta Barrea Pine
MPF 22:32, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
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ха ха ха)) Пинус —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.120.152.103 (talk) 15:20, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Edit to improve sort order in category Pinus
I edited this to change the sort order on the page for the Category:Pinus. It had been set to alphabetize under Pine. That might make sense for categories where there are a lot of trees and a few of them are pines; then all the pines group together. But on the page where everything is a pine, it made more sense to alphabetize under European Black. 140.147.236.194 (talk) 12:53, 13 April 2010 (UTC)Stephen Kosciesza
Rationale for capitalisation?
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_%28fauna%29#Capitalisation_of_common_names_of_species, where we read, "In general, common (vernacular) names of flora and fauna should be written in sentence case — for example, "oak" or "lion". This means names are written in lower case except for proper nouns or words that start a sentence." shouldn't it be written "European black pine", i.e. uncapitalised? I am having real trouble finding the proper conventions, never mind establishing whether they have been adhered to or if not, as in this case, what the rationale is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.2.186.231 (talk) 11:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
