Taxacom: on the inordinate unpopularity of changing eponymous bird and other organismal names, ver2

[Kevin Winker]

 Hi, all. I have updated my preprint manuscript posted a month ago here:

https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fosf.io%2Ftnzya&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C931cdc16caaf4a060f5a08db8e39be8b%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638260150880619787%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=wWY9wI4Nt2as%2FenF7eboREk3CI5C1JV7sl%2BbHodFRKM%3D&reserved=0

I've added:

1) Sentiment analysis of ResearchGate comments on Guedes et al.'s (2023)
proposal to eliminate all eponymous organismal names. There is an
eye-watering 95% opposed reaction among RG scientists.

2) Consideration of the gateway effects of eponymous names -- e.g., their
popularity and continued use in medical science and their positive values
in education.

3) A useful perspective showing how a stable English bird name opens a vast
literature compared to its scientific names and how changing would create
an instant linguistic barrier -- using Swainson's Warbler as an example
viewed through history using Google Books Ngram Viewer.

4) The example from medical anatomy showing that a top-down standardization
of nomenclature *without* eponyms was still not being accepted after 20
years.

Best, K.