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Canadian goose Canadian geese Canada geese

At least in American spelling, the "goose" is not capitalized -- see the Columbia Encyclopedia Article about geese, goose. The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th Edition, which does not capitalize the second word. I think the Columbia Encyclopedia is as reliable a source as any, and I have not seen any encyclopedia but Wikipedia that capitalizes both. Bobburito 06:11, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Its spelt both ways:Canada Goose (if its a title of a book or section ie chapter, encyclopidia topic, and canada goose, but Canada goose could mean any kind of goose that origenated from canada, and canada Goose is improper spelling, relly all this stuff is confusion with the diferent forms.

  • Please, we've been through the capitalization discussion. This is the convention we reached after much discussion. Both terms are capitalized. Danny
    • Where is this discussion? Is this only for titles? All dictionaries I've reviewed (including Canadian Oxford) do not capitalize the "goose". Jade Squirrel
      • No, it is for all appearances. I did not take part in the discussion, but it is in one of the naming convention articles. Danny

I just reviewed the Wikipedia naming conventions. It states:

"Unless the term you wish to create a page for is a proper noun, do not capitalize second and subsequent words." (my emphaisis) http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(capitalization) Jade Squirrel

An exception was made in the case of animals. You might want to check the Australian animals, becauzse that is where the discussion took place. It was not too long ago. Please don't start it off again. Danny

I didn't find any relevant discussion on this. If that decision was made, the naming conventions have not been updated. I noticed most of the Australian animals follow the convention you stated, but there are a few other animals where only the first word is capitalized. Since the Wikipedia is inconsistent, I'm not going to bother with this issue. Jade Squirrel

Tannin has informed me:

"You'll find several discussions of the naming conventions for animals around the place, but (for complicated reasons I won't go into) there isn't a naming conventions page that sets them out yet. Sorry abut that. The heat has gone out of the debate now, and the compromise that was hammered out is working well, so I'll see if I can attend to that over the next few days. But in the meantime, you will find the essentials at Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds. That's bird-specific, but the same rules apply to mammals." Jade Squirrel

These geese also occur in the City park of [[de:F%FCrth|Fuerth]] (Germany); this year the population grew remarkably - the last days I observed 50 or more. There are also some with white or red-orange heads. A picture is here; I can add some more, if wanted: http://de.wikipedia.org/upload/1/15/Wildgans-schwarzer-kopf-fuerth.jpg

Thats because(The geese are in gemany) the geese were raised in captivity and then they flu allong side a plane to europe

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