Editing Common name (section)

== Use as part of folk taxonomy ==
{{Main article|Folk taxonomy|Nomenclature}}
A common name intrinsically plays a part in a classification of objects, typically an incomplete and informal classification, in which some names are [[Degeneracy (mathematics)|degenerate examples]] in that they are unique and lack reference to any other name, as is the case with say, ''[[ginkgo]]'', ''[[okapi]]'', and ''[[Honey badger|ratel]]''.<ref name= "isbn0-19-861271-0">{{cite book |last=Brown |first=Lesley |title=The New shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles |publisher=Clarendon |location=Oxford [Eng.] |year=1993 |isbn=0-19-861271-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/newshorteroxford00lesl }}</ref> [[Folk taxonomy]], which is a classification of objects using common names, has no formal rules and need not be consistent or [[Logic|logical]] in its assignment of names, so that say, not all flies are called flies (for example [[Braulidae]], the so-called "bee lice") and not every animal called a [[fly]] is indeed a fly (such as [[Dragonfly|dragonflies]] and [[Mayfly|mayflies]]).<ref name= "isbn1-86872-713-0">{{cite book |first1=Alan |last1=Weaving |first2=Mike |last2=Picker |last3=Griffiths |first3=Charles Llewellyn |title=Field Guide to Insects of South Africa |publisher=New Holland Publishers, Ltd |year=2003 |isbn=1-86872-713-0 }}</ref> In contrast, scientific or [[Biological classification|biological nomenclature]] is a global system that attempts to denote particular organisms or taxa uniquely and [[Wiktionary:definitive|definitively]], on the assumption that such organisms or taxa are [[well-defined]] and generally also have well-defined interrelationships;<ref name="Hawksworth2010">{{cite book|first=D. L. |last=Hawksworth|title=Terms Used in Bionomenclature: The Naming of Organisms and Plant Communities : Including Terms Used in Botanical, Cultivated Plant, Phylogenetic, Phytosociological, Prokaryote (bacteriological), Virus, and Zoological Nomenclature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qky7_6-UcQQC&pg=PA10|year=2010|publisher=GBIF|isbn=978-87-92020-09-3|pages=1–215}}</ref> accordingly the [[International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature|ICZN]] has formal rules for biological nomenclature and convenes periodic international meetings to further that purpose.<ref>{{cite book |last=Conklin |first=Harold C. |date=1980 |title=Folk Classification: A Topically Arranged Bibliography of Contemporary and Background References through 1971 |location=New Haven, CT |publisher=Yale University Department of Anthropology |isbn=0-913516-02-3}}</ref>