Talk:Eoörnis pterovelox gobiensis
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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 moved by Altenmann. --BDD (talk) 02:42, 2 December 2012 (UTC) (non-admin closure)
Eoörnis Pterovelox Gobiensis → Eoörnis pterovelox gobiensis – Standard capitalization for biological names, but since this is technically a nomen nudum that does not even pertain to any actual organism, wrong capitalization would have to be kept if it is "Eoörnis Pterovelox Gobiensis" in the original (i.e. primary) source, where the name was invented. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 17:50, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
- Support Don't take this the wrong way, but if a member of WikiProject Birds wants to move a bird article to sentence case, it's almost certainly not controversial. --BDD (talk) 20:19, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
- Support - I am flattered that my amateur text attracted attention of professionals :-). - Altenmann >t 23:20, 1 December 2012 (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.
More on name edit
The move discussion inspires the following amplification. The authors of this piece were scrupulous in their adherence to scientific convention, if not to the scientific facts. Thus, they very intentionally used standard capitalization for the Latin trinomial and set the text in italics. Readers who stray to this Talk page might appreciate what the authors themselves wrote. "The name by which the organism has long been known is that given it by Linnaeus: Micropteron asiatica. Since Linnaeus definitely states that he did not actually see a specimen, and since he further expressed doubt as to the credibility of reports concerning it, the author has ventured to select as a more appropriate name, that suggested in an obscure Persian journal by his esteemed colleagues Francois-Villon and Sugamora, Eoörnis pterovleox gobiensis." Citing The Teheran Oölogist 7:876-880. 1926.