[Taxacom] Important note Re: two names online published -onenew species

Stephen Thorpe stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz
Sun Jan 24 16:28:27 CST 2016


Laurent,
OK, I am beginning to understand you better, but I still disagree. The Code itself uses the term "published" is two different ways. Such "homonymy" may not be ideal (particularly in a Code which tries to eliminate homonymy!), but it is not strictly incorrect. Sometimes the Code means "published" in the sense of what publishers mean by "published". Sometimes, and particularly when qualified as "valid publication", the Code means made available (in that special nomenclatural sense). If you were correct (which you are not), then it would be a nonsense to say "invalidly published" or "published unavailable name or work", but these are not nonsense! They are perfectly well defined. Life and the Code are full of ambiguity, vagueness and homonymy. Get used to it! :)
Cheers,
Stephen

--------------------------------------------
On Mon, 25/1/16, Laurent Raty <l.raty at skynet.be> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Important note Re: two names online published -onenew species
 To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
 Received: Monday, 25 January, 2016, 11:20 AM
 
 ;)
 No,
 YOU confuse common language and the language of the Code.
 (And the 
 person who wrote this example did,
 too.)
 In the Code, "publication"
 is ALWAYS and ONLY what you call "valid 
 publication". What is not "valid
 publication", is not published at all.
 
 L -
 
 
 On 01/24/2016 11:07 PM, Stephen Thorpe
 wrote:
 > Laurent,
 >
 > Once again you confuse published with
 validly published!
 >
 >
 Stephen
 >
 >
 --------------------------------------------
 > On Mon, 25/1/16, Laurent Raty <l.raty at skynet.be>
 wrote:
 >
 >   Subject: Re: [Taxacom]
 Important note Re: two names online published -onenew
 species
 >   To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
 >   Received: Monday, 25 January,
 2016, 10:54 AM
 >
 >   This example IS nonsense
 >   but not for this reason. It
 is nonsense because
 >   it
 uses words in a sense that is not consistent
 >   with the Code.
 >
 >   It is
 wolly
 >   impossible that an
 "author discovers the omission after
 >   the
 >   work is published",
 because the
 >   consequence of
 the omission is that the
 >   work is not published.
 >
 >   But I
 have written this before.
 >
 >   Cheers, Laurent -
 >
 >
 >   On 01/24/2016
 >   10:18 PM, Stephen Thorpe
 wrote:
 >   > LOL!
 >   You are right, but so am I! I
 am right that the example is
 >   nonsensical! Why? Because
 registering an online work on
 >   ZooBank after it has been
 published ALWAYS means that the
 >   work is unavailable earlier
 than the registration date. It
 >   matters not one whit whether
 the author stated in the work
 >   any registration date or any
 other sort of evidence for the
 >   preregistration that never
 happened! As examples go, this
 >   one is highly misleading,
 introducing an obvious general
 >   point by way of a specific
 red herring! The Code is full of
 >   such confusing nonsense.
 >   >
 >   > Stephen
 >   >
 >   >
 >   --------------------------------------------
 >   > On Mon, 25/1/16, Adam
 Cotton <adamcot at cscoms.com>
 >   wrote:
 >   >
 >   >   Subject:
 Re: [Taxacom]
 >   Important
 note Re: two names online published -onenew
 >   species
 >   >   To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
 >   >   Received:
 Monday, 25 January,
 >   2016,
 10:04 AM
 >   >
 >   >   -----
 Original Message
 >   -----
 >   >   From:
 "Stephen
 >   Thorpe"
 <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>
 >   >   To: <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>;
 >   >   "Adam
 Cotton"
 >   <adamcot at cscoms.com>
 >   >   Sent:
 Monday, January 25,
 >   2016
 3:59 AM
 >   >   Subject:
 Re:
 >   [Taxacom] Important
 note Re: two names online
 >   >   published
 -onenew
 >   >   species
 >   >
 >   >
 >   >   >
 Adam,
 >   >   >
 >   >   > OK,
 that makes some
 >   sense.
 Note however that this isn't
 >   >   an issue
 about
 >   >   >
 "e-only published
 >   names", it is also about
 online first
 >   >   names, and
 their
 >   >   >
 effective dates of
 >   publication. Back to that
 example,
 >   >   OK, it
 seems to be
 >   >   > saying
 something along
 >   the lines
 of "if the only
 >   >   evidence
 that an author
 >   >   >
 provides, in a work, of
 >   ZooBank preregistration, is
 the
 >   >   (purported)
 exact
 >   >   > date
 of registration,
 >   but that
 date is incorrect, then
 >   >   the work
 is
 >   >   >
 unavailable".
 >   However, it would be a rare
 (I'm not sure
 >   >   that it has
 ever
 >   >   >
 happened?) and somewhat
 >   foolish choice for an author
 to
 >   >   provide
 only that
 >   >   > as
 evidence, but, more
 >   to the
 point, it still seems to
 >   >   be at odds
 with:
 >   >   >
 >   >   >
 8.5.3.3. An error in
 >   stating the evidence of
 >   >   registration
 does not make
 >   a
 >   >   > work
 unavailable,
 >   provided that
 the work can be
 >   >   unambiguously
 associated
 >   >   > with a
 record created in
 >   the
 Official Register of
 >   >   Zoological
 Nomenclature
 >   >   > before
 the work was
 >   published
 >   >   >
 >   >   >
 Cheers,
 >   >   >
 >   >   >
 Stephen
 >   >   >
 >   >   >
 >   >
 >   >
 >   >   EXACTLY!
 >   >
 >   >   The
 >   whole point of the example is
 that he stated a
 >   >   registration
 date as
 >   >   proof in
 the work, but
 >   totally
 forgot to register it at
 >   >   Zoobank
 until AFTER
 >   >   publication.
 The important
 >   word in
 8.5.3.3 is "before" in
 >   >   the last
 sentence.
 >   >
 >   >   Adam.
 >   >
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