I vote NO -- retain Rec. 11.4B. I don't have a strong opinion either way, and my default in such situations is to take no action (or, in this case, to vote for taking no action). I don't see the harm in retaining the recommendation, especially if it helps encourage "sensible nomenclatural practice". Cheers, Andy On Sep 24, 2012, at 9:59 AM, Cantino, Philip wrote: > Dear CPN members, > > I am following up on my Sept. 17 message (copied below). Since no one commented further on the question whether Art. 11.4 should be deleted, I am calling for a vote. Please send your vote to this listserv < cpn at listserv.ohio.edu > by FRIDAY (Sept. 28). > YES=Delete Rec. 11.4B > NO=Retain Rec. 11.4B > >> Recommendation 11.4B. If a specimen that is not a type is used as a specifier in the first situation described in Rec. 11.4A, and a species that includes this specimen is subsequently named under the appropriate rank-based code, this specimen should be chosen as the type of the species name. > > > > Pro and Con arguments, respectively: >> 1) The PhyloCode should not recommend that specific actions be taken under the rank-based codes. What Rec. 11.4B recommends is simply sensible nomenclatural practice and therefore likely to be done anyway. >> 2) Sometimes it's a good idea to spell out the obvious. A Recommendation is just a recommendation; it is by definition unenforceable -- we even say, in item 5 of the Preamble, that other people shouldn't try to enforce Recommendations for us: "editors and reviewers should not require that they be followed". ************************************************** Frank E. (Andy) Anderson Associate Professor, Department of Zoology Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901 USA www.zoology.siu.edu/people/anderson.html ************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/cpn/attachments/20120924/a2bde4f2/attachment-0001.html
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