[Zoobank-list] error reporting for ZooBank

[Frank Krell]

Hi Andy and Nigel,

people start to find errors in ZooBank/ION and want to have them corrected (see, e.g., below). I think it would be useful to get a dedicated error reporting mechanism established in ZooBank which then would help to correct ZooBank and ION.
We should make clear that this is not to correct changing taxonomies, but wrong higher classifications (sone species of Gnormius as mite instead of beetle, species of Trigonostomum as beetle instead of flatworm, etc. - those objective, obvious things which have not necessarily to be peer-reviewed but can be corrected by Zoological Record directly. This could be cone informally via an email link if Zool Record is willing to dedicate somebody to deal with this. There is a 'Contact' link in both ION and ZooBank, but it would be easier to understand if we had
a) an explanation in ZooBank why it is still full of errors (because it is based on Zool Rec and not on the up-to-date taxonomy or registered names)
and
b) a simple button to 'Report errors'
If only a part of the community is willing to help eradicating these errors, we will have a much better database although retrospective registration is the answer in the long term (which might take quite long).
Cheers

Frank

Dr Frank-T. Krell
Head, Coleoptera Division
Editor, Systematic Entomology
Commissioner, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
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From: zoobank-list-bounces at afriherp.org [mailto:zoobank-list-bounces at afriherp.org] On Behalf Of Nicole Boury-Esnault
Sent: 07 September 2006 12:08
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Subject: Re: [Zoobank-list] ZooBank prototype on-line

I would like to know how the protorype of Zoobanh will be modify when errors are found.
Example the name Leucon : it is written Porifera Animalia. If this word is used to describe a type of aquiferous system in the Porifera world , it has never been used as a genus name for a sponge.
kind regards
Nicole Boury-Esnault

At 13:02 07/09/2006, you wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>Probably you have already been informed via TAXACOM or else, but the 
>first on-line prototype of ZooBank was launched at the 10th of August:
>
>http://www.zoobank.org
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Yde
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