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Why do so many contributors fail to capitalize locality names?

Going forward, can we all please try to ensure that county names and other proper nouns are capitalized in the database?

We're hoping that in the new BugGuide some of the editors
will have the ability to make batch changes in the database for such things. We received a spreadsheet from Mike Boone a number of years ago indicating entries with misspelled or wrong or missing county names but it was just too tedious to change them one at a time. If we could find for Florida, for example, all 26 entries with Miami for the county and all 418 with Dade for the county and change them all to Miami-Dade at once, that would be great. Plus search shows there are 43 with Miami listed as the city and no county has been entered. The ability to batch change these would be great. Keeping our fingers crossed

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