User talk:Wgunther

Welcome[edit]

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Your new article Cartesian monoid[edit]

Hey, I was wondering if you could add just a little bit more to the article Cartesian monoid that you created today. If only an example or two, or a bit about why these are studied. Adding a reference would be great, too. Thanks! RobHar (talk) 03:18, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sweet william[edit]

W, in this edit you capitalize Sweet William, relying on MOS:CAPS and "MW dictionary". I'm not familiar with what the latter refers to, and MOS:CAPS says "Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is a proper name; words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in sources are treated as proper names and capitalized in Wikipedia." If you look in books, you see that it's not consistently capitalized, with "sweet-william" going back to 1810 at least; not even close, though I'll grant you the William is more often capitalized than the sweet. So why the caps? In another discussion on plant name capitalization, my impression was the people were all OK with lower case sweet will, ragged robin, and jack in the pulpit, in spite of the possible connections to proper names. You want to fix the "sweet" at least? Dicklyon (talk) 22:03, 8 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Thanks for continuing the discussion. The particular policy I was referring to in MOS:CAPS was "Lower-case initial letters are used for each part of the common (vernacular) names of species, genera, families and all other taxonomic levels (bacteria, zebra, bottlenose dolphin, mountain maple, gray wolf), except where they contain a proper name (Przewalski's horse, Amur tiger, Roosevelt elk), or when such a name starts a sentence (Black bears eat white suckers and blueberries)." You are absolutely correct that sweet should certainly not be capitalized and failed to take a close enough look at your edit to notice some of those instances being changed, otherwise I wouldn't have simply undid it; sorry for that. Also, if you could link me to where that discussion was on plant name capitalization, that would be helpful. I'm not opposed in principle to the 'w' being lower-case, I was just following the manual of style as blindly as I could since I haven't seen a discussion on this that has lead to consensus. Wgunther (talk) 22:14, 8 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This edit in particular, by the main guy in favor of caps there, is what prompted me to make the edit. Dicklyon (talk) 00:58, 9 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]