[Taxacom] Article 16.2 of the ICZN

[Dick Jensen]

No code regulates the behavior fo editors or reviewers.  That's a given.  But, journals could adopt a policy that no manuscript will be published until matters involving the code have been dealt with and have passed muster by at least one reviewer familiar with the code.  Some journals have nomenclature editors to ensure that nomenclatural matters are properly dealt with.  Why wouldn't such a system work?  Is it that editors/reviewers can't be, or don't want to be, bothered with such minutiae?

Cheers,

Dick J

Richard Jensen, Professor
Department of Biology
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN 46556

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----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen Thorpe <s.thorpe at auckland.ac.nz>
To: Bob Mesibov <mesibov at southcom.com.au>, Dick Jensen <rjensen at saintmarys.edu>
Cc: TAXACOM <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
Sent: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:21:49 -0500 (EST)
Subject: RE: [Taxacom] Article 16.2 of the ICZN

... and no Code which regulates the BEHAVIOUR of taxonomists! To quote one (anonymous) coleopterist: "I don't care if someone comes along in the future and redesignates my types ..."

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From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Mesibov [mesibov at southcom.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 25 November 2009 2:09 p.m.
To: Dick Jensen
Cc: TAXACOM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Article 16.2 of the ICZN

Dick Jensen wrote:

"How about this: reject any manuscripts that are not in compliance with the code.  Or, is that just too radical and idea?"

The predicate 'reject' is missing a subject there. If it were *my* journal, I wouldn't have let those invalid lectotypifications get published, and if it were Stephen Thorpe's journal, the new family wouldn't have been erected without a type genus designation. If we had been the reviewers, we would probably have insisted that changes be made to ensure Code-compliance, but papers do get published over the objections of reviewers... by the subjects of your predicate. There is no Code which regulates the behaviour of editors and publishers.
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