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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3086550" data-attributes="member: 24811">Who has the burden of proof here is a good question... If you want to use a word as a name, I would say that you have to show that the criteria of availability are fulfilled--they are not fulfilled by default. Here they are not fulfilled unless the word was effectively treated as a name by Pallas.[My bolds.]Once more: Everything in the Code applies to names, and to names only.The above article does not apply unless there is a name (following a binomen) in an original text somewhere. If there is one, it determines the rank of the entity denoted by this name, which in turn may result in this name being excluded from the scope of the Code, despite always having been, and still being a name. If there is no name, there is no denoted entity, no rank to associate to anything, and nothing to exclude from the scope of the Code.I keep seeing no trinomen and no fourth name. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> I just see a text, that means in essence "Description of the variation in rocky areas of Dauria".</blockquote>