Re: *Dalianraptor cuhe* and *Sinornithosaurus haoianus* (short!)

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

David Marjanovic (david.marjanovic@gmx.at) wrote:

<It apparently allows wrong gender endings of nouns that contradict the sex of
the honoree. It does apparently not allow wrong gender endings of adjectives
that contradict the gender of the genus name. I think Articles 34.2 and 31.2
are unambiguous:>

  Sure that these rules are valid, but if not followed, it is not thus reasoned
that the name MUST be changed to follow suit, save where the situation
coincides with the clauses in Article 32.5. Article 32.2 tells us what a
correct original spelling is, while Article 32.5 tells us the only reasons why
such a name can be changed (and thus why the correct original spelling is NOT
correct):

  "32.2. Correct original spelling. The original spelling of a name is the
"correct original spelling", unless it is demonstrably incorrect as provided in
Article 32.5."

  "32.5. Spellings that must be corrected (incorrect original spellings).

  "32.5.1. If there is in the original publication itself, without recourse to
   any external source of information, clear evidence of an inadvertent error,
   such as a lapsus calami or a copyist's or printer's error, it must be
   corrected. Incorrect transliteration or latinization, or use of an
   inappropriate connecting vowel, are not to be considered inadvertent errors.

  "32.5.2. A name published with a diacritic or other mark, ligature,
   apostrophe, or hyphen, or a species-group name published as separate words
of
   which any is an abbreviation, is to be corrected."

  Since these rules argue how gender is applied, as well, given correct
original spellings and how they can be changed, the name *S. haoiana* does not
agree with either of these rules. Though Article 34 states the name should be
changed accordingly, the only way to do so appears to be through either first
revisorship, and thus the applications of the rules regarding subsequent
mispellings, or a published name change and subsequent prevailing use of the
other name.

  Cheers, 

Jaime A. Headden
http://bitestuff.blogspot.com/

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)

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