Board Thread:Manual of Style/@comment-1187034-20151130020127/@comment-25238001-20151130121436

BastionMonk wrote: I really object against this. We should not make up names and stories to explain what an animal looks like in the films.

I think we should live by this rule: We know something or we don't.

The raptors that appear in the films. We should just refer to them as "the Velociraptors from JPIII" or "the Jurassic World Velociraptors". Because that is all we know.

Sure, JPLegacy is keen to make up entire theories about the dinos. I remeber reading there that the JPIII raptors, sornalis, were the original raptors and that Wu modfied them into the nublaris breed, JP and TLW raptors, to fit more in a theme park. Nice idea, but you REALLY should not present fan theories like that as a fact. Because it is made up. Appears nowhere in official JP media.

We had a long argument back then about how to call the raptors in JP based on which species it looks like most. However, it is a debate with no end; and it is completely unnecessary. We are a wiki about a franchise, not wikipedia. If the films refer to them as just "Velociraptors"; we should do just that. Sure, raptors look different in each film, it spares us a lot of debate and time if we just refer to them as "JPIII raptors" or "JW raptors".

Sure, we can put into the articles a section that informs the reader that they are not scientifically accurate and how this image of raptors came to pass. 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. That being said, the films refer to them as Velociraptor even though they aren't. That's widely known as well. Everybody tknows the raptors in the films aren't scentifically accurate, and everyone has a good idea of why: Because paleontology in 1990 and 1993 was very different from today, and new informaion has come to light, but the JP movies remain with their raptors for continuity's sake.