[Taxacom] Author inclusion or non-inclusion with species names

[Stephen Thorpe]

Tony Rees wrote: hahahahaha

What I mean is that it takes only a "Wikispecies simple" database structure to handle synonymy, and thereby to solve the specific problem associated with the same species going under different names (recombinations, subjective synonyms, replacement names). Other problems will require other solutions, but this specific problem is fairly easily solved, and best handled in the context of a comprehensive database, rather than trying to add authors/dates everywhere in the (non-taxonomic) literature where names are mentioned.

I still think that people have lost sight of what I thought was the most basic premise of taxonomy sensu lato, namely: keep your voucher specimens safe so that they can be revisited if anybody needs to verify published statements about them, and "if you can't verify it, don't stake much on it being true!" ...

Stephen

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From: Tony.Rees at csiro.au [Tony.Rees at csiro.au]
Sent: Friday, 2 October 2009 8:11 p.m.
To: Stephen Thorpe; p.kirk at cabi.org
Cc: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Subject: RE: [Taxacom] Author inclusion or non-inclusion with species names

Stephen Thorpe wrote:

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So again, we need a centralised database of synonymic information, but it needn't be anything very complex ...
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hahahahaha

That's solved then...

- Tony