Talk:Lesser yellow bat

Requested move
Consolidated discussion to Talk:Western Sucker-footed Bat Apteva (talk) 21:59, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Lesser Yellow Bat → Lesser yellow bat – -> sentence case mammal species common name as specified in WP:MOS. WolfmanSF (talk) 08:36, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Support While WikiProject Birds treats species names as proper nouns, this is contrary to other practices within and without Wikipedia. --BDD (talk) 18:36, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
 * despite the fact that a bat can fly they are not actually birds but mamals so that WikiProject does not even apply.--174.95.111.105 (talk) 20:45, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes—my point was that the proposed capitalization is appropriate for most species, even if you'll find a prominent counterexample with birds. --BDD (talk) 21:11, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
 * My mistake, I assumed that you mistook a bat for a bird based on the fact that they fly and was concerned that the Bird WikiProject would apply--174.95.111.105 (talk) 02:32, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 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) 19:54, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 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)

Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Western Sucker-footed Bat which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 22:00, 2 October 2012 (UTC)