[tcs-lc] Next 4 days...

[Roger Hyam]

Hi Paul,

Maybe I should say that clearer. I am not proposing that these things be 
thought of as nomenclatural Names (with a capital) but we do need to 
have them as some sort of object so that we can say "This is an 
authographic variant of that".

So every combination of letters is a name but only some of them are 
Names if that makes sense.

Roger



Paul Kirk wrote:

> 'fraid I disagree Roger. Under the ICBN there can be only one form 
> (spelling) of a name - the others are orthographic variants of that 
> ONE name. It is critical that we can 'account for' (track) these names 
> variants but to define them as different names is not the logical way 
> to do that. Under your definition I assume that Homo sapeins and Homo 
> spaiens and Homo sapens (ad nauseum) are 'new' names? Sounds dangerous 
> to me. Index Fungorum will eventually assign LSIDs to each name it 
> indexes but will track orthographic variants outside this function (as 
> it will missaplications of those names).
>
> There are two responses to your last question - "Hey, you should have 
> spelt it correctly in the first place" or "The change was mandated by 
> the current Code".
>
> Still undecided on an option until we reach a decision on what is a name.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Hyam
> To: tcs-lc at ecoinformatics.org
> Sent: 16/03/05 08:04
> Subject: Re: [tcs-lc] Next 4 days...
>
>
> Hi Rich,
>
> I go for C. - Different letters or same letters in a different order are
>
> a different name.  But... and this is important. The fact that something
>
> is an authographic variant of another name is a matter of opinion. It
> might be an opinion that everyone would agree with but I think it is
> still an opinion and should be modeled as such. Some one could come
> along at a later date and say "Hey! What happened to my species name?"
>
> Roger
>
>
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