Talk:Variegated fairywren

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The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that the blue plumage of the Australian Variegated Fairy-wren (pictured) strongly reflects UV light?

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Naming conventions

Would there be any objections to renaming the article to Variegated fairy-wren? Per naming conventions and the manual of style, unnecessary capitalisation is generally avoided. MSGJ (talk) 12:37, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Erm, there are a heck of alot of bird articles, and special rules as it seems all bird names are capitalized. ~~I will post a link~~. See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Birds#Bird_names_and_article_titles Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 12:54, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting. I didn't know that. MSGJ (talk) 13:18, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why is this article at the wrong place? The name of the bird is [b]Variegated Fairy-wren[/b]. This is the [b]only[/b] correct name, and is the name by which this species is known in every authoritative reference. Tannin (talk) 12:23, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

sigh - take a look at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Birds and you'll see we've had a fair few discussions about IOC names -see Talk:Australian_Wood_Duck, Talk:Tasmanian Nativehen and Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Birds#Locked_articles.2FIOC_changes Casliber (talk · contribs) 13:02, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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