Different opinions of how to handle default common names

[thebeachcomber]

@birdwhisperer

I think it’s be worming into curator’s heads that anything goes now for taxonomy.

This doesn’t really seem to be a fair or accurate assessment of many deviations. Broadly deviations tend to be added for a good reason, not for any random frivolous reason. Are there exceptions? Of course. But I don’t think people are just en masse adding bogus names. What is important is that these deviations are formally logged. Also, external authorities can and do make mistakes or bad decisions, so just blindly following them for the sake of stability isn’t always the optimal decision