[dinosaur] PhyloCode was Re: "Yunyangosaurus" is not available

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> > The PhyloCode â which is going to be formally published this year; join 
> > the society! â will not be retroactive. And no, the PhyloCode will not be 
> > more permissive of digital media. It will, further, require registration 
> > for absolutely all names, no matter where they're published; registration 
> > of ICZN names is currently optional if they're published on paper.
>
> It's even worse than that. The PhyloCode DOES NOT RECOGNISE electronic
publication. At all. See ythe Code itself, chapter 4, articles 4.2 and
4.3, at 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ohio.edu_phylocode_art4-2D5.html&d=DwIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=Hq_wWYCC5OaCAFNVHDpIKE9c5lQ2PWPHCeET-ucuJz8&s=8wx9B5UgXFp6fwSytUZshHnHGod4Ccspul1Rz9YyqOs&e=
 

That's version 4 of the PhyloCode, dating from 2010. Version 6, the one about 
to be implemented, _will_ allow electronic publication.

Version 5 has only been published as a pdf on phylonames.org, not as HTML, 
probably because Mike Keesey hasn't had time to convert it. Version 6, which I 
saw over a year ago, is still secret for, presumably, some reason; perhaps the 
publisher is jealous or something.

Incidentally, versions 5 and 6 explicitly declare supplementary information to 
be unpublished. In version 5, this reads:

"Note 7.2.2. Material contained only in an electronic supplement to a [...] 
journal article is not
published according to Art. 4. Therefore, the following portions of the 
protologue may not be
confined to an electronic supplement: (a) clade name to be established; (b) 
designation of clade
name as new or converted (Art. 9.2); (c) phylogenetic definition (Arts. 9.3, 
9.4); (d) reference
phylogeny or statement about the distribution of apomorphies supporting the 
existence of the
clade (Art. 9.13); (e) hypothesized composition of the clade (Art. 9.14); (f) 
for converted names,
bibliographic citations (Art. 9.16) demonstrating prior application of the name 
to a taxon
approximating the clade for which it is being established (Art. 9.15a) and 
authorship of the
preexisting name (Art. 9.15b); (g) registration number (Art. 7.2e); (h) when 
appropriate, the
recommended rationale for selection of the name (e.g., Recs. 10.1A, 10.1B)."