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0000-0002-5417-9208
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University of Pretoria
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Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-10-2009
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-05-2022
DOI: 10.1002/TAX.12742
Abstract: In a recent article electronically published in Taxon as a “Point of View” in 2021 (and subsequently in hardcopy as a “Perspective” in 2022), Gideon F. Smith and Estrela Figueiredo commented on the undesirability of the continued commemoration of people of severely questionable ethics, including the imperialist Cecil John Rhodes (1853–1902), in botanical nomenclature. Independently addressing a similar topic at around the same time, Timothy A. Hammer and Kevin R. Thiele published proposals to amend Articles 51 and 56 and Division III of the Code , to allow the considered rejection of culturally offensive and inappropriate names. Subsequently, widely circulated responses to Smith & Figueiredo (2022) and Hammer & Thiele (2021) severely misrepresented our positions and views. We here respond to allegations that what we proposed will damage plant nomenclature, and clarify and further substantiate our views.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-11-2016
DOI: 10.1111/EVA.12436
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-10-2022
DOI: 10.1002/TAX.12821
Abstract: Recent proposals to amend the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (the Code ) to allow the rejection of names that honour historical in iduals who committed crimes against humanity has sparked a counter‐reaction that we believe misrepresents both the intent and mechanism of the proposals. In this short paper we point out errors and fallacious reasoning in this counter‐reaction, and again make the case that an open, balanced, modest, structured, and defensible way to deal with this issue is now, through sensible and reasonable proposals to amend the Code , within the grasp of the taxonomic and nomenclatural community. Adopting these proposals would represent a small but significant contribution to helping address some egregious historical wrongs.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-2011
DOI: 10.1038/475036A
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2016
DOI: 10.12705/653.42
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2016
DOI: 10.12705/653.41
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-02-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2017
DOI: 10.12705/663.10
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-2019
DOI: 10.1002/TAX.12123
No related grants have been discovered for Gideon Smith.