Talk:Derby's woolly opossum

Requested move

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 all to sentence case titles. Let me make it clear that in doing so I am not endorsing the requester's rationale that the current titles are "inappropriate capitalization", but rather to the support below and at the much larger discussion at WikiProject Tree of life. Basically, the upshot there is that reliable English sources vary on how to capitalize such titles but that sentence case is more common in sources, is leaned toward in our existing guidelines, that it would be good for us to have some consistency in how we title animal article titles and that, other than birds, which are to remain an exception, sentence case is leaned toward if we're going to go with one over the other.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 11:41, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

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Derby's Woolly Opossum → Derby's woolly opossum — inappropriate capitalization Relisting, consensus is close at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of life#English names of biological species Andrewa (talk) 19:15, 13 April 2011 (UTC) 96.251.199.126 (talk) 01:48, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

• Delicate Slender Opossum → Delicate slender opossum
• Common Opossum → Common opossum
• Common Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum → Common fat-tailed mouse opossum
• Columbian Gracile Mouse Opossum → Columbian gracile mouse opossum
• Chestnut-striped Opossum → Chestnut-striped opossum
• Chacoan Pygmy Opossum → Chacoan pygmy opossum
• Bushy-tailed Opossum → Bushy-tailed opossum
• Brown Four-eyed Opossum → Brown four-eyed opossum
• Brown-eared Woolly Opossum → Brown-eared woolly opossum
• Brazilian Slender Opossum → Brazilian slender opossum
• Brazilian Gracile Opossum → Brazilian gracile opossum
• Black-shouldered Opossum → Black-shouldered opossum
• Bishop's Slender Opossum → Bishop's slender opossum
• Big-eared Opossum → Big-eared opossum
• Bare-tailed Woolly Opossum → Bare-tailed woolly opossum
• Bare-tailed Woolly Mouse Opossum → Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum
• Anderson's Four-eyed Opossum → Anderson's four-eyed opossum
• Andean White-eared Opossum → Andean white-eared opossum
• Alston's Mouse Opossum → Alston's mouse opossum
• Agile Gracile Opossum → Agile gracile opossum
• Aceramarca Gracile Opossum → Aceramarca gracile opossum

• Support all: Proper capitalization. –CWenger (talk) 01:27, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
• Support based on WP:CAPS#Organisms, Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna)#Capitalisation of common names of species, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Animals, plants, and other organisms. - Station1 (talk) 06:42, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

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.