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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
– Move to capitalized titles, per MOS:COMMONNAMECAPS. Amazon parrots, per our article - "The genus name is a Latinized version of the name Amazone given to them in the 18th century by the Comte de Buffon, who believed they were native to Amazonian jungles". Therefore, as the name of a geographical area, I think "Amazon" is a proper noun and should thus be capitalized when used in a species name. Note that not all Amazons are found in *the* Amazon, but a lot of them indeed are. Looking back through the talkpage archives of WP:BIRDS, I see that this issue has been raisedmultipletimes (one of those times was by myself) and several people have made similar points to mine above, but nothing ever seems to have been decided and no-one has ever started a move request. I thought it was about time now. Iloveparrots (talk) 18:46, 17 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I have amended two lines of the proposal to use "Saint" rather than "St." since those two pages were redirects rather than articles. {{replyto|SilverLocust}} (talk) 06:32, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, my vote is to keep amazon parrots lower case as it is a type of parrot, not a bird with a proper name. Although amazon parrots were named that way because they were originally all thought to be from the Amazon jungle, many species are found beyond there and would look unordinary if Amazon parrots were capitalized. Amazons are parrots and should only be capitalized if it's the first word in a title or the first word in a sentence, as it is now..PVMoutside — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pvmoutside (talk • contribs) 00:39, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Lots of things that are ultimately eponyms are lower-cased. There is no one-to-one relationship between "has some relationship to a proper name way back when" and "capitalize this". — SMcCandlish☏¢ 😼 06:35, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
