[Taxacom] taxonomic resistance? (was Re: Phylocode vs Linnean)

[Kim van der Linde]

Stephen,

Yeah, cage match between Drosophila melanogaster and Sophophora 
melanogaster!

Kim

On 4/15/2011 8:49 PM, Stephen Thorpe wrote:
>  >adherence to The Code [ICZN] is voluntary as far as I know (if not,
> please send me the forms that I need to sign),
> this is true, *but* risky to ignore the Code - for one thing there is a
> substantial bioinformatics community working on cataloguing all taxa.
> They will likely ignore any work that *doesn't* adhere to the Code. So,
> you run the risk of having your work ignored and/or having your taxa
> renamed by someone else who may become the author of the new names
> despite doing less actual work that you have done. So, it all depends on
> how big the "ignore the Code" community gets relative to the Code
> conformist community, and that, at present, is far from clear ...
> Stephen