<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div>I approve of the changes to Art. 6. At this opportunity, though, I notice that the rest of the article always says "names" instead of "clade names". Maybe it should be changed to "clade names" throughout for clarity? "Names" is probably clear enough in context, but seems to be a relict from the times when we wanted to cover species names as well as clade names; the current Art. 6.4 through 6.6 even say "taxon" a total of four times, a term we hardly need anymore.</div>
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<div>The proposed Art. 20.4 is not needed: it merely repeats the better worded Note 19.1.1; Art. 20.1 already refers to Art. 19.1. Instead of the proposed Art. 20.4, I propose to modify Art. 20.2:</div>
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<div>Current wording:</div>
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<div class="para"><span class="label">20.2.</span> Authors' names are to be cited after the clade name. Nominal authors of any name, whether preexisting or new, are to be cited without enclosing symbols. Definitional authors are to be cited within enclosing symbols. The author of the original definition (i.e., the definitional author of a new or converted name) is to be cited in square brackets ([ ]; <a href="http://www.ohio.edu/phylocode/art20.html#art20.4-example1">Art. 20.4, Example 1</a>). The author of an emended definition is to be cited in braces ({ }; <a href="http://www.ohio.edu/phylocode/art20.html#art20.6-example1">Art. 20.6, Example 1</a>).</div>
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<div class="para">Proposed wording (additions and replacements in boldface, deletion marked by <strong>XXX XX</strong>):</div>
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<div class="para"><span class="label">20.2.</span> Authors' names are to be cited after the clade name. Nominal authors of any name, whether preexisting or new, are to be cited without enclosing symbols. Definitional authors<strong>, if different from the nominal authors of the name in question (Note 19.1.1),</strong> are to be cited within enclosing symbols<strong>: t</strong>he author<strong>s</strong> of the original definition (i.e., the definitional author<strong>s</strong> of a <strong>XXX XX</strong> converted name) <strong>are</strong> to be cited in square brackets ([ ]; <a href="http://www.ohio.edu/phylocode/art20.html#art20.4-example1">Art. 20.4, Example 1</a>)<strong>; t</strong>he author<strong>s</strong> of an emended definition <strong>are</strong> to be cited in braces ({ }; <a href="http://www.ohio.edu/phylocode/art20.html#art20.6-example1">Art. 20.6, Example 1</a>).</div>
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<div class="para">While I am at it, I note that some other parts of Art. 20 also assume that each nomenclatural act is performed by a single person, which is actually a rare situation nowadays. It should be possible to reword them without getting too clumsy. As an example, I propose the following for Art. 20.3 (additions in bold):</div>
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<div class="para"><span class="label">20.3.</span> If more than one <strong>set of</strong> author<strong>s</strong> is cited, they are to be cited in the following order: nominal author<strong>s</strong> of the preexisting or new name (including a replacement name); author<strong>s</strong> of the original definition; author<strong>s</strong> of an emended definition.</div>
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<div class="para">On a completely different note, I was recently sent a manuscript for inofficial review where the authors misunderstood Rec. 11G: as part of a hypothetical example, they created clade names from the names of zoological families by randomly adding Eo-, Eu- and Neo- to them (from Note 11G.1), wrongly implying the existence of genera that have names with these prefixes. I think Rec. 11G should be reworded to clarify that this is not what it means, because it is meant to apply mostly or entirely to preexisting names, but I haven't figured out how to do that yet.</div>
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