In the English language, the names of species/types of animals are NOT capitalized. Exceptions include the Douglas fir, Tasmanian devil, Siberian tiger, and Norway rat. Otherwise, they are written like this: grizzly bear, bottlenosed dolphin, blue whale, potato, carrot, white-tailed deer.
Hence, the title of this article needs to be Side-striped jackal, with the capital "S" capitalized only because it is the first word of the title of this Wipipedia article. 98.67.110.23 ( talk) 22:27, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Given the growing number of papers supporting a rename of this species from genus Canis to genus Lupulella including the Canid Specialist Group, and that the Mammal Diversity Database of the American Society of Mammalogists also supports Lupulella with WP:MAMMALS supporting the use of this database as a more up-to-date source than MSW3 in its WP:WikiProject Mammals#Guidelines, I have renamed the genus of this species from Canis to Lupulella as a WP:BOLD edit. Happy to discuss. William Harris (talk) 10:29, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
@ Vasiľ: Please hold off on this. We generally wait on mammal taxonomic changes for the IUCN or the ASM's MDD to catch the update and th MDD v1.12 is coming out this week or very soon. There is no need to rush the change in while our preferred sources do not have the update; and if ASM's MDD doesn't include this change, we should have a discussion before accepting it. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:10, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
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In the English language, the names of species/types of animals are NOT capitalized. Exceptions include the Douglas fir, Tasmanian devil, Siberian tiger, and Norway rat. Otherwise, they are written like this: grizzly bear, bottlenosed dolphin, blue whale, potato, carrot, white-tailed deer.
Hence, the title of this article needs to be Side-striped jackal, with the capital "S" capitalized only because it is the first word of the title of this Wipipedia article. 98.67.110.23 ( talk) 22:27, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Given the growing number of papers supporting a rename of this species from genus Canis to genus Lupulella including the Canid Specialist Group, and that the Mammal Diversity Database of the American Society of Mammalogists also supports Lupulella with WP:MAMMALS supporting the use of this database as a more up-to-date source than MSW3 in its WP:WikiProject Mammals#Guidelines, I have renamed the genus of this species from Canis to Lupulella as a WP:BOLD edit. Happy to discuss. William Harris (talk) 10:29, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
@ Vasiľ: Please hold off on this. We generally wait on mammal taxonomic changes for the IUCN or the ASM's MDD to catch the update and th MDD v1.12 is coming out this week or very soon. There is no need to rush the change in while our preferred sources do not have the update; and if ASM's MDD doesn't include this change, we should have a discussion before accepting it. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:10, 7 January 2024 (UTC)