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I examined the content of this separate page on Binominal nomenclature very carefully alongside the content of the much longer page Binomial nomenclature, and it was clear that the only differences were
For all ordinary visitors, and for the academic world at large, there is no difference between these terms except the above, and really both are trivial. Ther is a lot to say about the system; it was all said very well on the other page; and it made no sense to expand this page by saying it all twice.
All the English dictionaries I have in printed form (including many large recent editions) and the online ones I've seen treat both spellings as perfectly synonymous in biological taxonomy contexts, and there was no real scientific, semantic, linguistic, or even cultural reason to have a separate page of coverage here.
I have revised, expanded and clarified the Binomial... page to reflect the sensitivities of any zoologists who object to omission of the -n- and trust that nobody out there is going to destroy these efforts by reverting or vandalism! Iph 18:05, 31 May 2007 (UTC)iph
Binary name should also be merged and redirected to this one. MrDarwin 16:56, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
This page says nothing that isn't in Binomial nomenclature; has almost no links to it; isn't referenced. So I've made it a redirect to Binomial nomenclature. Peter coxhead ( talk) 00:01, 9 June 2011 (UTC)