Talk:Magnificent frigatebird

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: moved to Magnificent frigatebird. No consensus to treat it differently from other birds. Favonian (talk) 17:46, 24 May 2014 (UTC)


 * This move was requested in a long list of routine decapitalizations, but this seems to be a special case: ref old discussion quoted here. Some say that the Magnificent Frigatebird is not the same as any frigatebird which happens in someone's opinion to be magnificent. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:37, 17 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Mav. That was an incorrect move. It's the Magnificent Frigatebird, not a magnificent frigatebird. Like the Brown Rat isn't the brown rat. Mintguy
 * Ok. I'm wrong. I understand now (probably), I've always been confused about when to use capitalization. Mintguy
 * Actually it's Magnificent Frigatebird and brown rat. The capitalization of common names rule only technically applies to birds. --Aranae 05:22, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)


 * Support move to Magnificent frigatebird. Species names are not capitalised. See Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 156 and Manual of Style. Coreyemotela (talk) 20:34, 17 May 2014 (UTC).
 * this should really be move to the technical request section since there have been at least dozens of articles of this type moved in the last few days and I don't see how this one is different.--70.49.80.26 (talk) 01:13, 18 May 2014 (UTC)


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