Taxacom: Management of "unnecessary" names in databases

[Scott Thomson]

I keep them but make them redirect to the now used name thats relevant.
This way if someone searches for the term they still find the relevant
valid name.

It's kind of a combination of keeping the data in case things change and
considering all possibilities for end user usage.

Cheers Scott



On Mon, Nov 21, 2022, 9:23 AM Carlos Alberto Mart?nez Mu?oz via Taxacom <
taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

> Dear Taxacomers,
> Sometimes it happens that scientific names at a given superrank or subrank
> are subsumed into each other. For a pair of two names, this often means
> that the only remaining name becomes "unnecessary" as it contributes
> nothing to the classification.
> For example, in a family with two subfamilies, one subfamily is considered
> to be nested within the other and therefore synonymized. The result is one
> family with one subfamily, the latter being now "unnecessary" from the
> classification point of view.
>
> Sometimes it happens that a subordinal name is elevated to order, including
> a slightly different ending. No new suborders are proposed. The old
> suborder name is now "unnecessary" for the classification.
>
> How are you handling these "unnecessary" names in your databases? Do you
> keep them in the backend but make them invisible in the frontend? Do you
> tag them with some qualifier or status? Do you delete them? Something else?
>
> Kind regards,
> Carlos
>
> Carlos A. Mart?nez Mu?oz
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