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It is a punch. It is made specific to refer to a particular punch because the root noun is being modified by an attributive noun "donkey". Specificity is not ipso facto a rationale for capitalisation. Cinderella157 (talk) 22:40, 22 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Ditto. Here goes a regurgitated version of something I noted here:
User:Roman Spinner mentioned "donkey punch" being "the name of a specific [cocktail]", but a better term would be that it is "the name of a type of cocktail". Use pens and grammar here to form an analogy: "Pens are for writing." – generic; "I have a pen on my desk." – specific but indefinite; "The pen on my desk doesn't write." – specific and definite. Whether generic or specific or definite or indefinite, pen remains an uncapitalised common noun. I can replace "pen" with a type of pen (e.g. ballpoint pen, quill, fudepen), and the three sentences would remain viable. The same with types of drinks (e.g. Beer is good for health; Yesterday I drank a beer; The beer that I drank yesterday was India pale ale → Donkey punch is not so good for health; Last night I had a donkey punch; The donkey punch I had last night was horrible). On the other hand, you could not make sentences like these with proper names like Wikipedia or Tsar Nicholas II. So in short, being a type of something or being specific does not make it proper.
The intro of Wikipedia's proper name article says uniqueness is a factor as is the idea of being a single entity. There is not one unique donkey punch or Long island iced tea or green tea or India pale ale. All have been drunk millions of times. (But I'll admit these issues are not always clear cut especially when related to capitalisation—there have been innumerable Mays and autumns.) — AjaxSmack02:34, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]