Lowercase taxonomy

[egordon88]

Am I going crazy or did all of the taxonomic modifiers (e.g., Order, Family) switch to lowercase this afternoon?

[vreinkymov]

Seems like it’s case insensitive? pEnStEmOn also works…

[typophyllum]

Seems to have changed indeed on Tuesday

[chuuuuung]

Yep, I just noticed it right now, which means it happened sometime within the last 6 hours (as that was the last time I’d checked the site). Definitely more noticeable if you have your preferences set to show the scientific name first.

Edit: ooh boy, look at the Identify interface.

[anon83178471]

It’s making my eyes unhappy.

[egordon88]

Thank you for confirming. Also, thanks for all your spider IDs!

@anon83178471

It’s making my eyes unhappy.

Tad unsettling for me too

[vreinkymov]

Is whomever made the change a big fan of camel case?

Seems to affect the Taxonomy tab too, here for Laetiporus:

[fffffffff]

And what about translations? They’re gone

[w4v]

Strange. What reason to do this?

[dianastuder]

eww should be in bug report

stateofmatter Life

That is horrible.

But weirdly the Chrome tab still says what it should
State of matter Life

[jdmore]

I’m not aware of any rule that says taxonomic rank designators must be in Proper case. If anything, the opposite may be true.

[jtklein]

Thanks for the report. There have been updates with translations the last two days, and for now I assume this has been introduced erroneously.

[colinpurrington]

I think this might be a good development. When taxonomic modifiers are capitalized to adhere to a particular web/interface style, some people might assume that those words should be capitalized in sentences, too.

[owlshead-wren]

It’s happened to these tabs when opening up an observation on the “Identify” tab as well.

[tallastro]

I like it. Makes it easier to separate the level from the name.

[trscavo]

@user82793

I would indeed write ranks in lowercase unless the rank were the first word at the beginning of a string of text, as is the case here

Yes, that’s what I do while writing wikipedia articles.

[fffffffff]

That’s weird they use it in the middle of sentence, if so, definitely worth keeping it lower case. Just bring the translation back.

[KrisAtkinsonf]

Wikipedia should be cap W. A proper name.

[tiwane]

This should be fixed now. How’s it looking for you all?

(also, moved this to #bug-reports)

[chuuuuung]

Yes, it looks like it’s fixed now.