[Taxacom] Open review as a wiki

[Edwards, G.B.]

Following the general trend of this thread, why not take the next step
and link this citation to a centralized bibliography, to accompany the
centralized journal.

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G. B. Edwards, Ph.D.  [Your Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman] 
Curator: Arachnida (except Acari), Myriapoda, Terrestrial Crustacea,
Thysanoptera 
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Richard Pyle wrote:

> We should also pressure our non-taxonomist brethren to do the same,
even for
> works on ecology, behavior, etc.  If taxonomic authors had been
properly
> cited as such all along, we would be among the most cited biologicts
in any
> fields.

* as an unemployable, I don't have any personal experience with concern 
for promotion or salaries, but it seems to me that when the author, and 
especially the author and date, of a name is given with the name, that's

a citation to the original publication. It's an older format, from an 
era when there were fewer publications to be confused among, but if the 
taxonomic literature is to be online, it should be possible for 
citation-scrounging programs to parse the publications indicated by the 
author and date of a name.

fred.
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