Talk:Western sucker-footed bat

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Requested move[edit]

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was move per request per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters#Animals, plants, and other organisms.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:18, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

– sentence case mammal species common name as specified in WP:MOS. WolfmanSF (talk) 08:14, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support While WikiProject Birds treats species names as proper nouns, this is contrary to other practices within and without Wikipedia. --BDD (talk) 18:37, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Despite the fact that a bat can fly they are not actually birds but mamals so that WikiProject does not even apply. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.95.111.105 (talk) 20:46, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Given the level of support, in the future I will make similar mammal species name change requests as technical (uncontroversial) requests, which will obviate the need for discussion and speed things up a bit. WolfmanSF (talk) 19:55, 29 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Some editors have expressed an opinion that species names are proper nouns and should be capitalized, although this seems to be a minority view. If I were you, I'd want to see a few more uncontroversial RMs in this field before moving on to technical requests. You could do multiple page moves to process them in batches, at least, as the issues and arguments are likely to be the same. --BDD (talk) 20:46, 29 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

From my research on proper names of species, I found lots of references to birds being capitalized, and one that fish are, though not much to corroborate that - and one that said that most animal species only capitalize the first word (other than birds and fish). I did find some flowers that capitalize the third part of the scientific name to indicate that they were of human cultivation as a convention that is sometimes used, and that x was used in the middle to indicate that it was of natural origin. Capitalization following the x struck me as almost random. Apteva (talk) 20:03, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.