[Cz-biology] Article names

[John Stephenson]

Hi,

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Biology_Workgroup#Tree-of-life_subgroup

I'm not a biologist or an editor, so this is just a layperson's query: 
is the Biology Workgroup really going to rename all animal articles with 
the scientific names? I see 'Giant Panda' is now 'Ailuropoda melanoleuca 
(Giant Panda)', for example. This is a bit of a mouthful, to say the 
least, and means most readers will be coming in from a redirect.

I would ask you to reconsider this policy - on CZ we tend to use common 
names, and it makes us look slightly out-of-touch to put a lot of Latin 
at the top of an article. The scientific designation is, I suspect, of 
limited interest to CZ's potential audience.

John.