[Taxacom] Open review as a wiki

[faunaplan at aol.com]

What about the issue of manuscript names becoming visible on the internet? 
Wouldn't they add to the heavy load of "phantom names" (data entry misspellings, collection label names, etc.) that already made their way into online databases? 

Just one of so many examples: 
"Somatrichus" is a subsequent misspelling of Somotrichus.
It may have first occurred in the NODC database, was harvested from there by ITIS, from where it went to uBio, Species2000, GBIF, ZipCodeZoo, etc. A search via Google now reveals several more usage instances, we can search it via iSpecies, it has got it's own LSIDs in uBio and Species2000, flagged as "accepted name" without reference to the correct name Somotrichus, which itself is treated as a different accepted name in all those databases....

How can we avoid that MS names will escape in the same way?
Are not projects like ZooBank (official registers taking care of the "nomenclatural realm") the first priority steps when we talk about setting up things like standard classifications or open-access review mechanisms?

Cheers,
Wolfgang
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Wolfgang Lorenz
Faunistics & Environmental Planning
Hoermannstr. 4
D-82327 Tutzing, Germany


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