Hi! I wish there were an option to change the place of use for local names already submitted. Currently, if the person who added the name of a species in some language didn’t add the place of use, the name will not show up when the page is used in that language. That deducts from the usefulness of …

@chalkberg I edited your title a bit to be more specific Further clarification – current policy is that only curators can add a Place to a common name that already exists. Anyone else is supposed to flag the taxon and ask for a curator to do this for them. Related topics: https://forum.inaturali…

[image] jwidness: current policy is that only curators can add a Place to a common name that already exists Is there any way for non-curators to see who added a place to a common name (and why)?

No. Seeing it requires being able to get into it in edit mode which only curators can do. Even then there is no comment section or explanation, and all that can actually be seen is the last person to edit it, which may or may not be associating the place.

Do you know why this should be secret information?

I don’t think or perceive it is considered secret, that’s simply how the edit history of almost everything on the site works. As an aside there are only really 2 cases for associating a common name with a place. One is regional differences in names / spelling within the same language. So for exampl…

Thanks for the explanation. My issue was more just the abrupt change of a common name from a familiar to an unfamiliar name that affects everyone in that locale, and having no way to find out why. It’s not critical for me though. I’ll just switch back so I see scientific names only.

Thanks. One of the curators messaged me offering to look into it, which is fine now that I understand this topic is intended to be about language issues.

[image] cmcheatle: Seeing it requires being able to get into it in edit mode which only curators can do. Even then there is no comment section or explanation, and all that can actually be seen is the last person to edit it, which may or may not be associating the place. for what it’s worth, t…

Allow non-curators to associate an existing common name with a Place

Feature Requests

marina_gorbunova April 5, 2020, 8:18am 9

If a new name is not the most used, then it’s better to switch them back.

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