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Talk:Boar
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- Was that a dead boar that Locke & Charlie discovered in the Jungle in Further Instructions? -- C¯ _Santa_ ¯T03:40, 19 October 2006 (PDT)
Rename
- I propose we rename the article "Wild Boar" as that is the official name for the ungulate known as Sus scrofa.--Overworkedirish 21:12, 28 April 2008 (PDT)
- Rename. To Wild Boar.--Overworkedirish 21:12, 28 April 2008 (PDT)
- Don't. (Cross-post) This is the convention Wikipedia has come up with when referring to a whole variety of animals. (I say "variety" because, the way Wikipedia uses it, it's not limited to species; all dogs are of the same species and subspecies Canis lupus domesticus, but Wikipedia capitalizes dog breeds, as when referring to "the German Shepherd" or "the Mastiff".) It's not standard practice (you'll never find "polar bear" or "boar" or "mastiff" capitalized in a dictionary) and it can lead to all sorts of contradictions and confusion about when proper to capitalize or when not to. I say this is one crazy conformity convention we let be limited to Wikipedia. There's just no sense in it. Robert K S (talk) 18:40, 29 April 2008 (PDT)
- Don't rename: As per Robert K S. You wouldn't say "wild polar bear" etc, and if you wanna get pedantic, the boar in the Psychology Test Video mentioned in the article might not have been wild! As we don't know this boar's back-story yet, simply calling them boar is a better approach. --Nickb123 (Talk) 09:53, 6 May 2008 (PDT)
