Talk:piprites

RFV discussion: June–July 2023
Can't find lower-case English word in GBooks, just the Translingual genus name. Equinox ◑ 04:43, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't quite know what to make of the IP who created this: their definition says "Any of the tropical birds in the  ". Since they're mentioning only the one genus, they should have written "genus", which is the singular, rather than "genera", which is the plural. The fact that they wrote the plural but linked to the singular makes it look like they know better. They also have been referring to genera as "species" in some entries and "genus" in others. I'm not sure whether they're clueless, really careless or deliberately screwing things up just to be annoying- but I doubt they knew anything about these birds they're creating entries for until they saw them on Wikipedia.
 * At any rate, the Wikipedia articles link to sources that use the capitalized common names as English- but they seem to capitalize all common names referring to specific taxa, so one can't rule out the possibility that the underlying names are lowercase. Chuck Entz (talk) 06:07, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I can find the lower-case sometimes used in the vernacular species names. DCDuring (talk) 00:48, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Cited, barely. The upper-case form is much more common in the species vernacular names. The lower-case also appears in indices, but most seem to believe that doesn't count as "running text". DCDuring (talk) 01:17, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

RFV-passed. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 11:58, 17 July 2023 (UTC)