Thread:Bluesonic1/@comment-1036245-20151009214518/@comment-1738746-20151015032827

Just because something is different to what you're used to, you shouldn't assume it's wrong :) Try understand and learn from it instead, this is what will help grow your skills on wikis. I had a hard time adapting to the Manual of Style set by the Elder Scrolls wiki- a lot of what they did seemed very wrong to me. But considering how large it is, and how respected it is by Wikia in general, I stayed to learn and changed my habits accordingly (they're a massive wiki and extremely successful being 3rd on Wikia's list with 37,000+ articles- they must be doing something right).

The page you linked me to redirects to "Common butterfly" so I'll take it that is the title the wiki goes by. I can see that at the start of the article, the article is referred to as "common butterfly" instead. This is a grammatical error, as that particular phrase is referencing the article name rather than the butterfly itself. While the common butterfly may be a standard noun, the article's name is a title and therefore proper noun, and the capitalization should follow the same as that of the article's title i.e. "Common butterfly". That aside, the word 'butterfly' there is being used as a common noun, which is akin to our usage of "dragon" within articles. In our article titles, "Dragon" is used to refer to the breed's full name. It's like the difference between creating an article on a character using just their first name or using their full name. "Dragon" is considered part of the full name because that's the name given to us in the official description- not all dragons include "dragon" at the end of their official names in their description (example Sweetlings). That's why the ones who do have it, have it capitalized- it's part of its official reference name. Originally, "Dragon" wasn't capitalized on articles here in the past but the community ended up going with changing this for the reasons I've just explained (and more I presume).