Comment on "Effective Q-Q interactions in constituent quark models" - art.no. 019803

In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. C 57, 3406 (1998)] the performance of some qu ark potential models formulated in terms of effective interactions between constituent quarks has been studied. From this work the authors conclude th at the quark models considered, including one-gluon exchange forces, fail i n describing the baryon spectra. In this Comment we want to state precisely the working scheme followed in the above-mentioned paper to arrive at thei r conclusions, in order to show how the followed procedure makes some some of their statements invalid.