[Cz-biology] Article names

[Juan Carlos Diaz]

Common names of different species may vary among languages and 
countries, and sometimes even within the same country . 

For accuracy, I support the idea of using the common name followed 
(in parenthesis and once is enough) by the latin or scientific name 
of all animals and plants.  

Regards,

Juan Diaz
Department of Horticulture
University of Georgia





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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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> 
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