User:Andrew~enwiki/Tree of Life caps conventions

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WikiProject Tree of Life: ''Many of the WikiProjects listed above have defined standards for the capitalization of common names, which should be used when discussing the groups they focus on. There is currently no common standard, so no particular system should be enforced overall.''

Animals

 * WikiProject Animals Convention at Naming conventions (fauna): "Insofar as there is any consensus among Wikipedia editors about capitalisation of common names of species, it is that each WikiProject can decide on its own rules for capitalisation. In general, common (vernacular) names of flora and fauna should be written in sentence case."
 * Molluscs:
 * WikiProject Gastropods Convention at WikiProject Gastropods/Guidelines: "There are some obvious conventions, according to the Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna). See also for example Wikipedia:WikiProject_Birds#Names_and_titles." (ambiguous)
 * WikiProject Cephalopods Convention at WikiProject Cephalopods: No explanation and points to WikiProject Birds
 * WikiProject Arthropods Convention at WikiProject Arthropods: Nothing mentioned for handling common names.
 * WikiProject Insects Convention at WikiProject Insects: Nothing mentioned for handling common names.
 * WikiProject Lepidoptera Convention at WikiProject Lepidoptera: Nothing explicit, but samples use uppercase.
 * WikiProject Spiders Convention at WikiProject Spiders/Style guide: points to WikiProject Tree of Life
 * Vertebrates:
 * WikiProject Fishes Convention at WikiProject Fishes: sentence case
 * WikiProject Aquarium Fishes Convention at WikiProject Aquarium Fishes: refers to parent (sentence case)
 * WikiProject Sharks '''Convention at WikiProject Sharks: refers to parent (sentence case)
 * WikiProject Sea Monsters: thought to be inactive
 * WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles Convention at WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles: "This project follows guidelines discussed at WikiProject Tree of Life/article titles [undetermined: dependent upon project] and Naming conventions (fauna) [dependent upon project]."
 * WikiProject Dinosaurs Convention at WikiProject Dinosaurs: sentence case
 * WikiProject Pterosaurs Convention at WikiProject Pterosaurs: binomial name preferred, otherwise not specified, though example uses uppercase.
 * WikiProject Birds Convention at WikiProject Birds: In general, use the formal common name for article titles... The common name of a species is always capitalised to differentiate it from more general terms (their emphasis).
 * WikiProject Mammals no project-specific convention given: links to Naming conventions (fauna)
 * WikiProject Monotremes and Marsupials inactive, but refers to WikiProject Birds
 * WikiProject Cetaceans no convention: featured content appears to use sentence case, but some links on the project page text use upper case
 * WikiProject Primates Convention at WikiProject Primates/Article format: the project's guidelines changed on March 2011 after a consensus selected the use of sentence case...
 * WikiProject Rodents Convention at WikiProject Rodents: Binomial name preferred, sentence case otherwise.
 * WikiProject Cats no convention: recognized content (when not about fictional cats) appears to use uppercase.
 * WikiProject Dogs no convention: most recognized content is fictional dogs or dog breeds (see next), but a handful of other canids appear to use uppercase.
 * WikiProject dog breeds Convention for this task force at WikiProject Dog breeds: suggests uppercase, I think—"The article for each breed shall be titled based on the apparently most-common official breed name from the major registries."
 * WikiProject horse breeds (shares parentage with WikiProject Agriculture) Redirects to WikiProject Equine/Horse breeds. Convention at WikiProject Equine/Horse breeds says nothing directly about caps, referring to names in registries, but practice in Category:Horse breeds shows them capitalised.

Plants

 * WikiProject Plants Convention at WikiProject Plants: Article naming for flora articles differs from standard Tree of Life policy in the following ways:... There is currently no consensus regarding capitalization of common names in articles.
 * WikiProject Banksia No explicit convention
 * WikiProject Australian biota Under construction, defers to other Wikiprojects for conventions, see WikiProject Australian biota
 * WikiProject Carnivorous plants Not overly active (project page last update February, talk page last update November 2010), no explicit convention
 * WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening Possibly inactive although not tagged as such
 * WikiProject Plant Evo Devo Inactive since 2008
 * WikiProject Pteridophytes Convention at WikiProject Pteridophytes: Titling of pages according to scientific, not common, names.

Others

 * WikiProject Fungi No explicit convention, however their list of featured and good articles seems to use scientific names exclusively
 * WikiProject Prokaryotes and Protists Possibly inactive WikiProject, last activity June 2010
 * WikiProject Viruses No explicit convention
 * WikiProject Marine life No explicit convention. WikiProject Marine life lists some other Wikiprojects already in the tree.
 * WikiProject Algae No explicit convention
 * Taxobox task force No explicit convention

Other stuff
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tree_of_Life&oldid=423524387#Scope_and_descendant_projects is the initial source of the above tree