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Message: <blockquote data-quote="plessey" data-source="post: 113492" data-attributes="member: 373">Well not quite. The WSC actually has no more authority than you or I do in deciding whether or not a paper is valid. It used to be that it listed all proposed changes then it started listing only those that it felt met the criteria of the ICZN so a lot of poor Schmidt papers were ignored (no bad thing IMO). Bizarrely now it seems they think that they can cherry pick changes from individual papers (not accepting the moving of L. violaceopes to Omothymus but accepting the other changes in the Smith & Jacobi being a prime example).In the case of the Avicularia revision, it is a really solid, well written paper published in a peer reviewed scientific journal that has been years in prep, not some badly written rushed article published in a hobby journal.So there will be no doubts over the proposed changes.</blockquote>