The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature is the protocol by which scientific names are validated and properly formed. It also is pretty broken. There are issues with grammatical agreement of species names, for one, and other issues with how names which are set by it differ because of different lists made by different people using different interpretations of the Code. Having conflicting names in your data makes life difficult. In this talk, I cover briefly how the Code works, and then I go on to discuss how to reconcile different taxonomies using Wikidata and code, so that you can know what bird or fish you're looking at when you're doing your research.