I just changed Dingo to dingo. Can somebody explain why Dingo is consistently written with a capital D in the dingo article and why Kelpie is written with a capital letter in the title of this article, but not in the text. D.D. 20:03 25 Jul 2003 (UTC)

This is a very old question, but as I started answering before I noticed that - I'll leave a reply for future browsers...The problem is a long running dispute about capitalisation on Wikipedia. Generally we use lower case, except for proper nouns. The question has always been - are common names of species properly capitalised or not. This argument has extended to breed names in the dog section. In order to cool the dispute the compromise has been that both capitalised and non-capitalised are acceptable in these areas - but the redirects should always be set up from the alternative. In the dog breeds section, we decided that the convention should be that breed names are capitalised. But there are sometimes articles written with the opposite form, and we don't always catch all cases of this quickly. The Dingo is also a slightly different case in itself because it is usually regarded as a sub-species rather than a breed - and mammals usually are in the non-capitalised form. Last time I looked, the Dingo article was using "dingo" (IIRC) - looks like that's switched over again. I think all the "Kelpies" in this article are fixed now, and I've switched the "Dingo" back to the capitalised form -- sannse (talk) 11:36, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The kelpie genrally doesnt have white tips. Thes dogs are exported all over the world for their woking abillity and versitiity. They will work cattle, sheep, goats and ducks. The work in all weather climates rangeing from freezing to forty degrees c. The colours that kelpies come in are

black and tan red and tan blue and tan faun and faun and tan cream