[Cz-biology] Article names

[David Goodman]

Looking at the title of articles listed in Biological abstracts ,
there are  150  instances of Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca). 181
of just Giant pandas, 3 of just  Ailuropoda melanoleuca, and zero of
Ailuropoda melanoleuca (Giant Panda)


On 10/24/07, John Stephenson <citizendium at linguistics.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.
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David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.