[Taxacom] multiple authors new species

[Stephen Thorpe]

Multiple authorship is getting ridiculous in some cases. Just "et al" them all out (apart from the first) for being such @#$%wits on a citation grab! At any rate, it doesn't matter one bit how you cite a reference if it has an identifier (like a doi). That's the whole point of an identifier, i.e. so citation variants can be linked to the same reference.

Stephen

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On Mon, 10/10/16, bayshark at exemail.com.au <bayshark at exemail.com.au> wrote:

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 I have a feeling that if you use paper with multiple authors
 for reference,
 is the best to cite all authors.
 If you use just for an identification label , use "etal"
 Regards
 Vratislav
 
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 On Behalf Of Paul
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 Better a punctuation error than substituting with the
 'trendy' ... & al.
 
 Paul
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 > Many thanks to everyone 'et. al.' for the feedback.
 >
 > John Grehan
 >
 >
 
 John,
 
 It seems no-one has pointed out the punctuation error -
 there is no '.'
 after 'et', only after 'al'. Et is not an abbreviation,
 unlike 'al', so does
 not need a '.' after it.
 
 The correct citation for the species should be Thitarodes
 biruensis (Fu et
 al., 2002).
 
 By the way, I see this is a Chinese Hepialid. I remember
 last time I was in
 the BMNH in 2006(temporarily in Wandsworth at the time) I
 was talking to my
 old friend Gaden Robinson (RIP) and he was complaining about
 the new
 Hepialid volume of Fauna Sinica that had just arrived. It
 was full of
 synonyms and taxonomic issues, and he was really frustrated
 having just
 finished a revision of the family. He said "If I had any
 hair left I would
 be pulling it out right now".
 
 Adam.
 
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