Category talk:Races and Species
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Do you think I should change the names into plural form? I think it might make more sense for a species. Azes13 01:08, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
- Using singular names for races and species is a naming convention used by just about all the wiki projects, including Memory Alpha, the Star Wars wiki, and of course Wikipedia. The same practice is used by hard copy encyclopedias. You don't, for example, try to find out what a tiger is by looking up "Tigers;" you look under "Tiger." And some races have referred to themselves with a singular pronoun, like the Xeraphin in "Time-Flight." Even if someone types the plural form in the search box, articles containing the singular form show up in the search results anyway. I see no reason to break convention and make the change.
--Freethinker1of1 17:26, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
