[CPN] Can we implement the PhyloCode immediately?

[David Marjanovic]

The companion volume seems to make this impossible, of course (hence 
item 6 of the Preamble and Art. 7.1). But how about we

1) make a list of the names that are to be defined in the companion volume,
2) write an Article that says any names on this list as well as 
homonyms, homodefinitional synonyms and likely heterodefinitional 
synonyms must not be published before the companion volume (we could 
even temporarily exclude entire clades from the scope of the Code just 
to make sure),
3) write another Article that says everything in the Companion Volume 
has precedence over everything else (which we should do anyway, see below),
4) and then launch the mother*ucking Code already -- if not immediately 
after we're done discussing the current round of amendments, then on 
January 1st, 2013?

Is RegNum up to that task?

What else have I overlooked?

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...In any case, I just noticed, Art. 7.1 needs to be reworded, because 
it declares the companion volume unpublished by definition: 
"Establishment of a name can only occur after the publication date of 
Phylonyms: a Companion to the PhyloCode, the starting date for this 
code." The companion volume can't be published after its own publication 
date!

How about:

"Establishment of a name can only occur on or after the publication date 
of Phylonyms: a Companion to the PhyloCode, the starting date for this 
code. Names and definitions in Phylonyms that have not been suppressed 
by the Committee on Phylogenetic Nomenclature (Art. 15) have precedence 
over all others."

The second sentence would still apply if my suggestion above should be 
accepted. An insertion "(see Art. 7.1)" in Art. 12.2 would also be a 
good idea in any case.

Compare how the ICZN establishes its order of precedence of 1) Svenska 
Spindlar/Aranei Svecici (a consistently binominal book on Swedish 
spiders from 1757), 2) Systema Naturae 10th edition (1758), 3) 
everything else (1758 or later):

"Article 3. Starting point. The date 1 January 1758 is arbitrarily fixed 
in this Code as the date of the starting point of zoological nomenclature.
3.1. Works and names published in 1758. Two works are deemed to have 
been published on 1 January 1758:
- Linnaeus's Systema Naturae, 10th Edition;
- Clerck's Aranei Svecici.
Names in the latter have precedence over names in the former, but names 
in any other work published in 1758 are deemed to have been published 
after the 10th Edition of Systema Naturae.
3.2. Names, acts and information published before 1758. No name or 
nomenclatural act published before 1 January 1758 enters zoological 
nomenclature, but information (such as descriptions or illustrations) 
published before that date may be used. (See Article 8.7.1 for the 
status of names, acts and information in works published after 1757 
which have been suppressed for nomenclatural purposes by the Commission)."