[Taxacom] unflagged classification change question

[Derek Sikes]

All,

For those of you who keep track of one or more taxonomic classifications on
which you are an authority...

I'd like to know how you'd react to the following (all too-realistic)
hypothetical scenario:

*You find a publication by Smith in which a species name that you feel had
been justifiably made a junior synonym some years earlier, was treated as a
valid species with no explanation for the change. *

In the next publication you produce on the group do you:

A) list it as a valid species citing Smith's publication

B) re-synonymize it, cite Smith, and explain that there was no evidence
offered by Smith for the change

C) ignore (don't cite) Smith and list it as a junior synonym

D) something else? (& for this hypothetical, imagine Smith recently died)

Thanks,
Derek

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