[Ontology-editors] historical synonyms

[Midori Harris]

I'm not sure I fully understand the question, because I don't quite see 
how marking "historical" synonyms will help. If a synonym looks like it 
would cause more confusion than benefit, shouldn't it be removed or have 
its scope changed no matter when or why it was added?

(Also, in my experience the most confusing synonyms were the obsolete term 
names ...)
m

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark) wrote:

> Hi,
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> Do you think it might be possible for us to have a way to mark which term 
> synonyms are there for historic reasons and which are considered to be 
> current and correct? I am working through the old sensu terms just now and 
> looking at synonyms to get clues to which terms correspond to which taxa, and 
> some of the synonyms are quite confusing. It would be much easier if it was 
> clear which were there for historic reasons.
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> Thanks,
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> Jen
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