Language for taxonomic names, redux

[Philip Newton]

On 24 February 2017 at 00:19, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
> If you mean my initial edits to a few templates, improving hundreds of
> thousands of articles after a few minutes work

Is it an improvement to move from a consistent model (all taxonomic
names are uniformly non-marked-up for language) to an inconsistent one
(some taxonomic names on a page are marked up for language, others --
perhaps the majority, depending on the page -- are not)?

Cheers,
Philip