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Invalid name
For the record, there cannot be a Family named Tetrapterygidae unless it contains a genus named Tetrapteryx according to the ICZN, which Chatterjee is either unaware of or ignoring. This grouping would work ok if it were defined as an unranked clade.
Dinoguy2 (
talk) 12:34, 24 May 2015 (UTC)reply
Yes, the name Tetrapterygidae is unavailable according to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, not being based on a type genus. The main problem here is that using the name on Wikipedia is propagating the error, which can make things worse.
SEThorpe (
talk) 03:57, 25 November 2016 (UTC)reply
It's not for us to fix, nor can we ignore the problem. The classification isn't exactly fringe science, Paraves cladistics change with every new fossil study. I've added a Special Note to the text for now. Should this article exist at all? It's speculative. The taxon doesn't appear in cladograms or taxoboxes in any other articles. How about moving it to a section under
Averaptora, and redirecting the page to there? In the meantime, I don't think we should be linking to this page (i.e.
WP:orphan), because this isn't stable.
Sbalfour (
talk) 18:03, 20 December 2016 (UTC)reply
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Invalid name
For the record, there cannot be a Family named Tetrapterygidae unless it contains a genus named Tetrapteryx according to the ICZN, which Chatterjee is either unaware of or ignoring. This grouping would work ok if it were defined as an unranked clade.
Dinoguy2 (
talk) 12:34, 24 May 2015 (UTC)reply
Yes, the name Tetrapterygidae is unavailable according to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, not being based on a type genus. The main problem here is that using the name on Wikipedia is propagating the error, which can make things worse.
SEThorpe (
talk) 03:57, 25 November 2016 (UTC)reply
It's not for us to fix, nor can we ignore the problem. The classification isn't exactly fringe science, Paraves cladistics change with every new fossil study. I've added a Special Note to the text for now. Should this article exist at all? It's speculative. The taxon doesn't appear in cladograms or taxoboxes in any other articles. How about moving it to a section under
Averaptora, and redirecting the page to there? In the meantime, I don't think we should be linking to this page (i.e.
WP:orphan), because this isn't stable.
Sbalfour (
talk) 18:03, 20 December 2016 (UTC)reply
