How do we deal with the thousands of highly contested GLOVAP new combinations?

[bobby23]

@bouteloua

I’m not very familiar with this. Does it look like POWO is blindly accepting these changes? Or does it appear to be a selective process?

@cmcheatle

does anyone have insight to why POWO is apparently implementing this? Do they feel they ‘have to’ because of the current ‘rules’ regarding nomenclature changes? Have they reviewed them and agree ? Do they see the effort as a competitor and are simply trying to remove them as a viable threat by absorbing their work?

@mftasp

It is difficult to know what process POWO undergo before they decide to accept or reject a change. I’m not involved in the process and so I can’t say for sure.

@jdmore

My sense is that most if not all of the GLOVAP changes were not required for reasons of priority, effective or valid publication, or other nomenclatural rules. They were just mass taxonomic changes based on questionable criteria.

Has anyone tried to actively contact POWO? Their email is available here. According to their “About” page they encourage questions and feedback. I feel like it would provide some much needed insight.