Board Thread:Manual of Style/@comment-1187034-20151130020127/@comment-25238001-20151130220213

BastionMonk wrote:

MarkJira wrote:

It's a pretty widely used fan name, and I think most people  in the JP community will know what you're talking about when you say V. Nublariensis. I can remember ever1 @ JPLegacy used that name. However, I haven't visited that site for years now. I never met anyone outside JPLegacy or in real-life that used/knew that name. I never needed the words nublaris or sornalis to explain which raptors I ment.

They actually used to call it Velociraptor antirrhopus nublablabla. The antirrhopus part ment that it was actually a Deinonychus. Now that JurassicWorld.com states that the JP raptors came from Mongolia (no Deinonychus there), this name has been proven erroneous.

This shows another reason why we should not make up names. If fans decide that a film dino belongs to one species, and film producers decide another, the fans will have to rewrite ALL their articles containing the erroneous names. I had to do that many times. Not fun. You do not have that problem if you use neutral names like "Jurassic Park III Velociraptors". If we don't have better or more widely accepted names to change the current ones to, then what would be changed at all?