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: FWIW, I support the proposal to amend the MoS. Using "Human" is so different from normal modern English usage that I notice the rule is rarely been applied across this wiki in any case; it is a bit like capitalising "Animal" or "Plant". If editors really want to avoid ambiguity and provide galactic perspective, they could use "Terran" or "Tellurian" or "Earthling", all of which derive their capital from a proper noun indicating planet of origin; or for additional precision "from/on Earth". We also have a category "[[near-Human]]" (unsourced) to consider, but in many cases it's safe to call characters simply "human", since we don't know about, say, [[Morestran]]s. In general, there's a tendency here to overcapitalise: for example, [[Weed Creature]], which doesn't seem to deserve to be a proper noun: it's not a title, and it's not a civilization, just the two English words "weed" and "creature". [[Special:Contributions/93.96.136.249|93.96.136.249]] 13:50, February 22, 2011 (UTC) | : FWIW, I support the proposal to amend the MoS. Using "Human" is so different from normal modern English usage that I notice the rule is rarely been applied across this wiki in any case; it is a bit like capitalising "Animal" or "Plant". If editors really want to avoid ambiguity and provide galactic perspective, they could use "Terran" or "Tellurian" or "Earthling", all of which derive their capital from a proper noun indicating planet of origin; or for additional precision "from/on Earth". We also have a category "[[near-Human]]" (unsourced) to consider, but in many cases it's safe to call characters simply "human", since we don't know about, say, [[Morestran]]s. In general, there's a tendency here to overcapitalise: for example, [[Weed Creature]], which doesn't seem to deserve to be a proper noun: it's not a title, and it's not a civilization, just the two English words "weed" and "creature". [[Special:Contributions/93.96.136.249|93.96.136.249]] 13:50, February 22, 2011 (UTC) | ||
Er...sentient species are nearly always capitalised in ''Who''.----[[User:Skittles the hog|Skittles the hog]]--<small>[[User talk:Skittles the hog|Talk]]</small> 19:33, February 22, 2011 (UTC) | |||
