Message 2004-10-0197: Re: Article 5

Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:05:53 -0500

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Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:05:53 -0500
From: [unknown]
To: David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
Cc: phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu
Subject: Re: Article 5

David,

This is a good suggestion, which I will take up with Kevin.  Article=
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21 of the ICZN provides a  model.

Phil


>Article 5 establishes what the date of publication is. It fails to=
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>regulate, however, how it should be interpreted when a publication=
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>just bears a month or even just a year as the date.
>        Often a day is given somewhere in such publications; for=
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>example, the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(4) says "December=
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>2000" throughout the issue, but "19 January 2001" on the title page,=
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>so it is clear that 19 January 2001 would be the publication date.=
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>But what if there's no such indication?
>        I think the preexisting codes have rules that interpret thes=
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>as the first, 15th or last day of the month or year. I think we=20
>should introduce some rule along these lines.
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>Current full text of Article 5:
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>5.1. The publication date is the date on which publication, as=20
>defined in Article 4, took place. More specifically, it is the date=
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>on which the publisher or publisher's agent delivered the printed=
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>matter to a carrier for distribution to the public. In the absence=
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>of proof establishing some other date, the one appearing in the=20
>publication itself must be accepted as correct.
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>5.2. When separates are issued in advance of the work (periodical or=
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>book) that contains them, the date of the work, not of the separate,=
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>constitutes the date of publication.
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Philip D. Cantino
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Department of Environmental and Plant Biology
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