Platform(s): website URLs: see below Description of need: Volunteer curators provide the essential service of maintaining and updating the iNaturalist taxonomy. There are a number of proposed improvements that could be made to assist this effort, some of which deal with streamlining the curatorial…

Please think about how ‘search for inactives’ can be integrated. It’s been the bane of many taxon additions that an inactive already exists, then too easily misdupilicated without failsafes.

(and so probably a check when creating a new taxon is needed, if the same exact name exists somewhere)

Yes I was also thinking about that. I think that would merit its own feature request.

It would also help speed things up if the proposed “Create a New Taxon” and “Edit Taxon” buttons on flags (points 3 & 4) automatically added a link to the flag in the notes of the subsequent taxon edit page.

Working on an issue for this. Would you say that clicking these buttons should open up a new tab? Personally I like keeping the flag open in its own tab so I can go back and refer to it, but I don’t do a ton of taxonomic curation. Also, should the “Create a New Taxon” button use the flagged taxon i…

[image] tiwane: Personally I like keeping the flag open in its own tab I also do this, but I generally prefer to be able to do this myself with keyboard shortcuts. Although I imagine that the flag should probably stay open as a reminder to resolve it or add a comment. [image] tiwane: sho…

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Feature Requests

tiwane January 29, 2026, 6:56pm 5

We don’t make Github issues for things like this now, but I’ve added this request to our Product prioritization page, so the product team can discuss it.

Topic		Replies	Views
Edit a related taxon from the Taxonomy tab (curators only) Feature Requests	7	917	October 11, 2019
Include "Add a taxon swap" option on taxa I created in Edit view Feature Requests web	8	723	December 24, 2020
Add an edit button for each individual status on the Status tab for taxon profiles Feature Requests web , implemented	2	1858	March 2, 2024
Add ability to populate Taxonomy Framework data when creating a new taxon Feature Requests	1	330	August 28, 2020
Edit taxon from /flags page Feature Requests web	2	474	February 9, 2021

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