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I think we've agreed (somewhere ...) that we would retain the letter ''j'' when it is part of a scientific name, because this is the standard scientific orthography and we shouldn't change it. So I've reverted Xaverius's move today. If I'm mistaken, please tell me!
:Whether anybody agreed or not, it seems the right thing to do; otherwise, biologists & others unfamiliar with the convention that J = I will be confused. If, however, Vicipaedia decreed that ''all'' jays would become eyes (giving us oddities like President ''[[Andreas Jackson|Andreas Iackson]],'' the writer ''[[Henricus James|Henricus Iames]],'' the unit of measurement known as the ''[[Joulium|ioulium]],'' and that famously untranslatable dance the ''iitterbug''), then maybe it'd be OK. [[Usor:IacobusAmor|IacobusAmor]] 13:44, 13 Novembris 2009 (UTC)
::The way I would put it is: Letter J is a Latin letter, though this particular letter, which was added late in the middle ages, aquired a great variety of correct ways to pronounce it in Latin ranging from "dz" to "i-consonant". This wide range of correct pronounciation makes it convenient when writing foreign and technical words whose sounds do not correspond exactly to the sounds of classic latin speech; on the other hand J is superfluous for spelling words of purely latin origin.--[[Usor:Rafaelgarcia|Rafaelgarcia]] 15:10, 13 Novembris 2009 (UTC)
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