LIES. Skunks are one of the most well-know Mustelids.

Oh please, take two seconds and check even the most basic of sources.

A "mustelid" is a member of the family Mustelidae. Skunks belong to the family Mephitidae. Therefore, skunks are not mustelids, so get your taxonomic facts straight and stop saying it.

"Skunks were classified as a subfamily within the family Mustelidae, which includes ferrets, weasels, otters and badgers. However, recent genetic evidence suggests that the skunks are not as closely related to the mustelids as previously thought; they are now classified in their own family."

"The Mustelidae in general are phylogenetically relatively primitive and so were difficult to classify until genetic evidence started to become available. The increasing availability of such evidence may well result in some members of the family being moved to their own separate families, as has already happened with the skunks, previously considered to be members of the mustelid family."

Skunks are not mustelids. Skunks are mephitids. You cannot argue my stance because this is not a situation where there is a differnce in viewpoints - you cannot argue against scientific fact.

Skunks are not mustelids.

when did they change, and this is with cladistics and not leninant(?) taxonomy?

a spotted skunk is a civit and a polecat is a ferret type thing, but then people say a polecat is a skunk?

Your comment makes little to no sense. Please come back when you are literate and understandable.

I come back with sense

1) i hear the term "polecat" used for "skunk", but a polecat is like a ferret.
2) but a pole cat is also a "spotted civit" but that is a skunk?
3) wikipedia say "Mustela putorius" is the wild version of domestic ferret
4) polecat is more of a ferret, but skunks and civits are called polecats

why do they do this?

You spelled capitalized wrong.

So yea, stop harrassing other people about typing wrong, because you do too. Plus, everybody makes typos. :3

I'm British you incompetent twat. Try using Google once in a while.

"Capitalization (or capitalisation — see spelling differences)".
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americ.....2C_-ization.29

Even if it was a typo, so what? Yes, Tanner, well done, everybody makes typos. Thank you for stating the obvious. The point, however, is that there is a HUGE difference between:

1. Dave, who making the odd typo. The odd typo slips through even though he proof-reads his posts. Things happen.

When he doesn't know how to spell a word, he Googles it or checks a dictionary. It takes two seconds.

When he notices a typo, he corrects himself, if possible.

If he is routinely corrected for something (for example OH I DON'T KNOW how about the fact that common nouns are not started with a capital letter) he takes it on board and makes an effort not to make the same mistake again.

If "type properly" is the rule, he follows it, like everyone else.

and -

2. Linda, who rolls on the freaking keyboard, doesn't seem to know how to operate a freaking spellchecker, seems to never proof-read or run her posts through Word, continues to type the way she does despite being asked repeatedly to make a change, acts like the rules don't apply to her, gets uppity and stupidly indignant if you point any of this out to her, and generally types with no regard for the reader or common courtesy.

In summary, there is a difference between making the odd typo (which I do sometimes! omg!) and typing like a four year old retard with no access to Google or a spellchecker.

*makes

See? A typo. Omg I typo'd.

I don't even know where you're coming from, to be perfectly honest. It's just blatantly Not The Same Thing, at all.