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NOTE: this change in NomenclaturalCodeEdition should not affect the name of historic code editions which where originally published as ICNB. These names must be retained.

Andreas Kohlbecker wrote:

NOTE: this change in NomenclaturalCodeEdition should not affect the name of historic code editions which where originally published as ICNB. These names must be retained.

NomenclaturalCodeEdition entry names are pure enum "names" not used for anything else. So we can rename them but there is no big need for this as they should never be shown to the user in anyway. Having all the same prefix has a certain advantage for sorting. Needs discussion.

This differs from NomenclaturalCode, where the abbreviation is also used as a title that is shown to users (but there we only use the current code abbreviation for pratical reasons.

This ticket is about NomenclaturalCode not NomenclaturalCodeEditon

please consider the discussion in #9618 before closing this ticket, as the question there is highly related.

Andreas Kohlbecker wrote:

please consider the discussion in #9618 before closing this ticket, as the question there is highly related.

As explained in #9618 the need for an historic abbreviation (if required by users) should be handled as separate parameter, not by using enum names.
Also this ticket is about NomenclaturalCode not NomenclaturalCodeEditon.
The remaining discussion should be done at #9618. IMO there is no need to keep 2 tickets open for this.

But if phycobank (the only DB using the above mentioned feature) handles also names from ICNP we can temporarily revert the changes in NomenclaturalCodeEditon related to this ticket.