In the case of questioned genus and/or
species, use of separate fields in a database is not being purist as much
as being practical. Too often the question marks are dropped or lost in
subsequent citations, which can result in misleading, incorrect conclusions
by subsequent workers.
JR
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Re: paleonet question marks in taxonomic
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Yet another comment on question marks
When preparing and using digital databases, adding question marks before
the relevant name (or using quotes in some cases) makes it more
difficult to do quick alphabetic sorting.
In my own database, I push the question mark after the genus or species
as appropriate.
Of course, a purist would use a separate data field(s) for using queries
of the various types, but the design then becomes a lot more complex.
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