Re: Registration

[Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

David Marjanovic wrote:

> > Never is this apparently more true than in governments who's
> > systems are run essentially by committee, as many Americans can tell 
> you.
>
> Can't be possibly worse than in Austria. :o)

I would go out on a limb and say that, for all its imperfections, 
"government by committee" is a vast improvement on how Austria was run 
before 1945.

;-)

>         In the current situtation, *Avgodectes* would either be registered
> or not, and that would preclude the discussion we're having.

> From this perspective, registration is a good idea.  Too much time is spent 
debating whether a name is nomenclaturally valid or not: Avgodectes, 
Allosaurus whitei, Tyrannosaurus stanwinstonorum, Archaeoraptor, Otogosaurus 
etc etc etc.  Registration would remove this perennial bugbear.  We've come 
along way with taxonomic and phylogenetic methods, but the rules of 
nomenclature keeping on hitting the same road bumps over and over again.



Tim


(It couldn't
> get registered without having a phylogenetic definition, however -- _even 
> if
> registered before publication_.)

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