[Cz-biology] Article names

[Larry Sanger]

Interesting data point.

I wouldn't mind switching the order (common name first, then Latin name),
but I leave it to the biologists to settle this.  You may have to take a
vote.

--Larry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cz-biology-bounces at mail.citizendium.org 
> [mailto:cz-biology-bounces at mail.citizendium.org] On Behalf Of 
> David Goodman
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:15 AM
> To: Biology Workgroup List
> Subject: Re: [Cz-biology] Article names
> 
> 
> 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_subgr
> > oup
> >
> > 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. 
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