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name: Term change template
about: This template sets up a new issue with the information needed for a term change
  request.
title: 'Change term - '
labels: Term - change
assignees: ''

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## Term change

* Submitter: 
* Efficacy Justification (why is this change necessary?): 
* Demand Justification (if the change is semantic in nature, name at least two organizations that independently need this term): 
* Stability Justification (what concerns are there that this might affect existing implementations?): 
* Implications for dwciri: namespace (does this change affect a dwciri term version)?: 

Current Term definition: https://dwc.tdwg.org/list/#dwc_[term name here]

Proposed attributes of the new term version (Please put actual changes to be implemented in **bold** and ~strikethrough~):

* Term name (in lowerCamelCase for properties, UpperCamelCase for classes): 
* Term label (English, not normative): 
* Organized in Class (e.g., Occurrence, Event, Location, Taxon): 
* Definition of the term (normative): 
* Usage comments (recommendations regarding content, etc., not normative): 
* Examples (not normative): 
* Refines (identifier of the broader term this term refines; normative): 
* Replaces (identifier of the existing term that would be deprecated and replaced by this term; normative): 
* ABCD 2.06 (XPATH of the equivalent term in ABCD or EFG; not normative):