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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jim M." data-source="post: 3633828" data-attributes="member: 60675">Why would you hope that?  While I'm all for vigorous taxonomic debate, I'm not sure I see the benefit of having all these competing “standardized” global checklists.  (And I don't personally much care whether IOC becomes a version of Clements or Clements becomes version of IOC).  It creates confusion and requires a lot of resources by the taxonomic committees, researchers, and birders.  I personally spend a lot of time having to “translate” from one checklist to another in a host of contexts.</blockquote>