Topic on User talk:Daimajin1966
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I did what I did because, in a scientific name, specific names aren't capitalized, only generic names. Everyone with even a modicum of scientific knowledge knows this. Properly speaking, it's T-rex and V-rex; no capital "R". |
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This is simply not true. If you had a "modicum" of scientific knowledge, you'd know the abbreviated form of Tyrannosaurus rex is "T. rex" with a period and lower-case R. "T-Rex" is common parlance that doesn't strictly follow binomial naming conventions, so the R is often capitalized. It's even written that way in the Wikipedia article for the species. You could confirm this if you took two seconds to Google it, but you would rather sass me and flaunt your bloated sense of self-importance. Not to mention that we're talking about a fictional dinosaur, whose name should be dictated by the people that created it. There are quotes in the article where it is clearly spelled "V-Rex."
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And another thing: it was a "family group of three V-rexes", so why change that? No one in the scientific world calls a young animal a "youth", it would be a "young one" (the term "youth" is only used for people), Skull Island reptiles#Unnamed carnivore is capitalized because that's the way it is in the list itself (just look it up and you'll see it is) and what's wrong with "the official tie-in game to the 2005 film"? One wouldn't know that by looking at it the way it's written now. |
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When you click the "rollback" button, it reverses the whole burst of changes made by a person. When you publish tens of edits in a row, over half of them entirely useless and arbitrary, it is far easier to just roll the whole thing back and start from scratch.
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Besides, there's a few examples of the name V-rex in that same article that aren't spelled with a capital "R". They're in Books (King Kong (2005)) and Comics (King Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World). Does this mean they have to be changed, too? |
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...yes. I don't know why on Earth you would come to the conclusion that the way it's spelled the minority of times is the way it should be on the entire article. It being capitalized inconsistently is an error, but your solution was to come to a wild conclusion about how it ought to be written that isn't even accurate to the way the filmmakers stylize it.
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And btw, where exactly does it say in the rules of this website that one has to ask someone in charge to do what was done here? |
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I think these two policies describe the situation pretty well:
- Wikizilla:Civility - "Civility is a standard of conduct that editors should follow. In short, it means treat people politely and with respect even if you are disagreeing with them. [...] Uncivil behavior consists of any behavior designed or intended to create stress or conflict. [...] Disruptive editing is closely related to not being civil, although it is possible to edit tendentiously without being uncivil."
- Wikizilla:Edit warring - "Situations will inevitably arise where editors have differing views about some aspect of a page's content. When this happens, editors are strongly encouraged to engage in civil discussion to reach a consensus, and not to try to force their own position by combative editing[.]"
Our job as moderators is to maintain the site's pages and reverse edits that are harmful or unhelpful. When you repeatedly make these types of edits that you are told time and time again not to, refuse to fact-check anything you add or change and then end up apologizing for not knowing, and get mouthy with us when we tell you that punishments will be levied against you, there doesn't need to be one rule to spell out that that's a problem. You can protest all you'd like, but I'm telling you the next time it happens, you're out of here.
