Talk:Porcelaine Tigre

RFD discussion: October 2020–March 2022
French. Tagged by Languageseeker today (“erroneous spelling. tigre should be lowercase”), not listed. See. J3133 (talk) 10:00, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Everything should be lowercase, not just "Tigre". Please stop this user from creating more entries. 2A02:2788:A6:935:351D:18F4:E607:A40 10:05, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I've merged the page histories of Porcelaine Tigre and Porcelaine tigre and then moved the result to porcelaine tigre. —Mahāgaja · talk 11:08, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
 * In the 19th century, Porcelaine was capitalized and tigre was lowercase. It's not appropriate to move it to porcelaine tigre because the current lowercase French spelling is porcelaine tigrée because an orthographic revision to agree tigre with porcelaine in gender. When you moved Porcelaine Tigre to Porcelaine tigre, you seemed to have overwritten the part on Alternative Spelling that I think I put in Porcelaine tigre. tl;dr porcelaine tigre does not exist in French. It's either Porcelaine tigre (old) or porcelaine tigrée (new). Languageseeker (talk) 12:51, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Maybe it's less common, but I am finding instances of (and  with a hyphen), lowercase, in recent French texts. —Mahāgaja · talk 13:14, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
 * True, I found both and . To resolve this, I'm going to add a section for alternative spellings.

Porcelaine de Madagascar
2A02:2788:A6:935:351D:18F4:E607:A40 10:04, 11 October 2020 (UTC)


 * If these are real, they can be moved to the proper spelling instead. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 10:12, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
 * In 19th century naturalist books, Porcelaine is capitalized. Languageseeker (talk) 12:36, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
 * We don't waste time and space on alternative capitalizations of an initial letter. Move to porcelaine de Madagascar, no redirect necessary. DCDuring (talk) 16:14, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, in ancient books capitalization was very inconsistent, trying to respect it would be rather Sisyphean. But maybe the actual spelling could be mentioned alongside each reference when we correct it. -- Olybrius (talk) 10:34, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, move to porcelaine de Madagascar, the normal spelling. All animal French names may be used capitalized (and all words as well, when beginning a sentence). Lmaltier (talk) 15:06, 14 March 2022 (UTC)