Revise NomenclaturalStatus

Open mdoering opened this issue 8 years ago • 0 comments

The NomenclaturalStatus enumeration is missing an entry for a correct/valid name and uses confusing terminology in some places. There should be 2 clear entries for a correct name and a validly published/available name.

As botanical and zoological terminology is using the same term valid for different things we should avoid it.

Botanical / Zoological terms:

correct (incorrect) / valid (invalid)
valid (invalid) / available (unavailable)

Suggest to use:

CORRECT & INCORRECT
AVAILABLE & UNAVAILABLE

All other more specific status values should have two methods to indicate whether that more specific status is correct and available in the above sense: isCorrect(), isAvailable()

Jan 20 '17 11:01 mdoering