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Some context from Emu, perhaps about changing Australian ecological approaches to Emus would be better. Hard to see why this is separate. --Wetman 07:15, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

It's pretty much a duplicate of the information I added to emu years ago. I see no pressing need to merge it, but have no objection either. Tannin 01:22, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

1 Capitalization
2 Iraq War?
- 2.1 Removed
3 Why do you hate America?

[edit] Capitalization

To the user who keeps wrongly capitalizing the word "emu" in this article - stop it. This is the English - not German - Wikipedia. In English nouns are only capitalized when they are proper nouns or the first word of a sentence. --Centauri 23:32, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Incorrect. You also capitalise in a range of other circumstances. For example, the first letter of a scientific genus name is always captialised (and the first letter of a specific name never capitalised). Of more relevance to our discussion here, the common name of a species is always capitalised, so as to indicate that this is a particular exact species we are talking about. So, for example, you write Black Rat if you mean Rattus rattus but write black rat if you mean a dark-coloured rat of unspecified species. A little egret could be any of many smaller birds in the heron family (egrets are a form of heron), but a Little Egret is Egretta garzetta and no other.

Note, however, that a group of species is not capitalised - so we write wombat (because there are 3 species) or kangaroo (because there are 3 to 5 different species). Similarly with egrets, rats and herons above. "Emu" can be tricky, as the word "emu" has two distinct meaninmgs - it is both the group name and the name of one of the species within the group. Uncapitalised, "emu" means any of the several emu species (all bar one of them now extinct) - it is the name of the group; capitalised, it means Dromaius novaehollandiae, and not Dromaius baudinianus the Kangaroo Island Emu or Dromaius Ater the King Island Emu.

Follow? Tannin 01:22, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Scientific and unique names are proper nouns and should be capitalized, as I have already stated above. Generic descriptions of animals are not proper nouns and should not be capitalized. See my post on the Emu talk page for further detail.--Centauri 01:27, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Iraq War?

This section seems a bit POV and like an opinion, not a fact not to mention it just seems completely out of place and a nonsense inclusion (no offence, but you can almost cmpare the Emu War to anyway if you think about it):

" Australia lost the war because they didn't "stay the course," and they decided to "cut and run" instead of "supporting the troops." Some argue that this war is analogous to the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States. If you "cut and run," you support the Emus and hate Australia. "

I'm not experienced with Wikipedia, so I'm not sure what I should do.

Why do you hate America?

[edit] Removed

I agree, it's either a Bush supporter who's upset that they are losing public support, or a Dem. trying to be funny. Either way it's just stupid. Won't someone think of the emu's? --Ceaser 09:12, 6 September 2006 (UTC)