Thread:ARamirez 19/@comment-1618941-20120409023341/@comment-1618941-20120426220135

According to the grammar rules, the names of animal species are common nouns, and are therefore not capitalised. This extends to include fictional races of fantasy worlds. I linked to a Wikipedia policy page, that you yourself indicated was the guideline, which gave several clear examples, and yet you responded by presenting a proper noun in a discussion on common nouns.

You might accuse me of going in circles on this issue, but honestly all I see you doing here is shifting the goal posts. Not only that but the tendency to bring straw man arguments into the discussion just rehashes the same mistake that ARamirez 19 made earlier and prolongs the dispute.

Frost giants are quite clearly a species, not a cohesive society. As are trolls, ogres, pixies, and so forth. Jotuns I can't prove are a single tribe, a unified group, so I'm sticking with the opinion that it's a species name until proven otherwise. Jotuns might reasonably be capitalised under those grounds, but frost giants never should be.