Following up from a discussion at https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/42317/duplicate-harvard-styles/, I’d like to propose removing two duplicate "Harvard" styles from the github and Zotero CSL style file repositories:
harvard1.csl is a almost-duplicate of harvard-anglia-ruskin-university.csl; both are based on http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.htm, <http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.htm> harvard7de.csl (German) is a almost-duplicate of harvard-institut-fur-praxisforschung-de.csl; both are based on http://www.institut-praxisforschung.com/app/download/6167762784/Harvard-Zitierweise.pdf?t=1410296308 resp. http://www.institut-praxisforschung.ch/Portals/0/Jonas/Harvard-Zitierweise.pdf (the second link is dead, redirecting to http://www.institut-praxisforschung.com/, <http://www.institut-praxisforschung.com/> so this is/was clearly the same guide). My proposal is to keep only those with the more specific style names - harvard-anglia-ruskin-university.csl and harvard-institut-fur-praxisforschung-de.csl - and to remove harvard1.csl and harvard7de.csl entirely. Huge bonus: Getting rid of styles with overly generic names such as harvard1.csl and harvard7de.csl would reinforce the important message that there is no such thing as a single, official Harvard style, removing a very common source of confusion among students and, sadly enough, librarians and certain brands of commercial library and referencing software, too. See also http://docs.citationstyles.org/en/stable/primer.html#author-date-author-styles: “Note that many style guides use the confusing term “Harvard” to refer to *author-date* formats, even though most of these styles have no connection to Harvard University. There is also no such thing as a single official “Harvard” style.” Any platforms where harvard1 seems popular would have to inform their users that they should switch to harvard-anglia-ruskin-university.csl (or some other author-date style) instead. Are there any objections?
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