[Taxacom] GENERAL CALL TO BATTLE

[John Grehan]

My understanding that the code is just an informal agreement, not an
imposed law. Taxonomists are at liberty to follow it or not. Same for
journals. At least some journals require code conformity, but others
apparently do not. I have no problem in principle with the idea of
published objections being made to procedures used in the papers cited, but
there is no threat of 'overthrow' of the code in the sense of imposing an
alternative set of conditions. If some want to publish that bypass some
(all?) of the current code then there is nothing to stop that unless
journals object. At least that is my impression.

John Grehan

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 12:06 PM Carlos Alberto Martínez Muñoz via Taxacom <
taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:

>  ***GENERAL CALL TO BATTLE***
> Calling all Zoological Taxonomists to Battle!
> Dear friends and colleagues,
> We are going to need as much help as possible to fight the attempts of
> Michael Sharkey, Daniel Janzen, Paul Herbert, and others to override the
> ZooCode and to overwrite 250+ years of Zoological Taxonomy.
> If you are willing to contribute your arguments and expertise to a response
> paper, please contact me.
> Those of you who might not be aware of this serious issue, please check:
> 1) Meierotto et al. (2019): A revolutionary protocol to describe
> understudied hyperdiverse taxa and overcome the taxonomic impediment.
> Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 66 (2): 119-145.
> https://doi.org/10.3897/dez.66.34683
> 2) Sharkey et al. (2021): Minimalist revision and description of 403 new
> species in 11 subfamilies of Costa Rican braconid parasitoid wasps,
> including host records for 219 species. ZooKeys, 1013: 1-665.
> https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1013.55600
> See also a reply to Meierotto et al. (2019):
> 3) Zamani et al. (2021): The omission of critical data in the pursuit of
> ‘revolutionary’ methods to accelerate the description of species.
> Systematic Entomology, 46: 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12444
> We need as much help as possible! Please, share widely and invite others to
> contribute! Let this be the hour when we draw swords together!
>
> Carlos A. Martínez Muñoz
> Zoological Museum, Biodiversity Unit
> FI-20014 University of Turku
> Finland
> Myriatrix <http://myriatrix.myspecies.info/>
> ResearchGate profile
> <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Martinez-Munoz>
> Myriapod Morphology and Evolution
> <https://www.facebook.com/groups/205802113162102/>
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