Platform(s): web
Description of need:
Allow curators to analyze unintended disagreements before committing taxon merges.
Feature request details:
When drafting taxon swaps, curators can analyze unintended disagreements to see the parent should also be split. It looks like this:
A taxon merge functions like committing a batch of taxon swaps that all have the same output, but there is no option to check for unintended disagreements. I would like to be able to search for unintended disagreements of all inputs when drafting taxon merges. It could look like this:
This tool should be run for each input separately, but the results could all appear in the one pop-up window. In the case where some inputs are children of other inputs (as in my screenshot example), the child inputs can be skipped as they will already be included in the parent input.
This feature would be helpful for expediting curatorial work. Taxon merges are helpful for committing multiple changes at once. However, we currently have to draft a taxon swap for each input to see unintended disagreements, which defeats the purpose of a taxon merge.