WCVP issues

[alrichardbollans]

Here I highlight some potential issues within WCVP, in particular the 'string issues' below hinder name matching. These are by no means exhaustive, but may indicate areas to explore further.

• Some records in WCVP are not given accepted information
• Sometimes POWO and WCVP don't agree (mostly due to short lag in POWO updates?)
• Accepted names are not always unique (without author information) e.g. Helichrysum oligocephalum
• Some taxa are not given ipni ids, including some accepted taxa
• Some (accepted) taxa are not given any author information e.g. Caralluma adscendens var. adscendens

String issues

These issues are mostly resolved when matching with the automatchnames package

• Some taxon names and author strings include double spaces:
  
  
• Some taxon names end in full stops and have other issues:
  
• Some entries have strange use of full stops:
  
  

[alrichardbollans]

Some issues with first publication formatting in V12: publication_year_issues.csv