Auto-importer adding taxon names with the author included

Bug Reports
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Names with the author appended have started to be imported from EOL. Appears to have only started in the past day or two.

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First one has no obs. Maybe in the process of updating taxonomy?

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None of the taxa listed above should have observations, they’ve all been fixed and swapped into the correct name by a handful of different curators. Looking back over the most recently created 3000 names the appending of the author is a recent phenomenon.

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Added to my weekly report.

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Some taxa are even coming in when there’s already a species present with that name e.g.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/98888

There was a discussion about this in a flag a bit ago here but I thought I should repost this in the forum for some potential discussion about disabling EOL imports entirely as suggested in the flag.

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I would support this.

This problem still persists. I can see a bunch of them in today’s list.

author_taxa

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This is still an issue and I can see a bunch of newly imported ones that need inactivating of swapping on top of the ones I’ve just done.

This is consuming a fair amount of volunteer curation time… @tiwane, do you have an idea of what the timeline might be to fix it? I am concerned that the ungrafted taxa list might spiral out of control once more.

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We just released an update that removes EoL as an external name provider - the downside of continuing to use it was outweighing the benefits. I understand it might be a big change for some, but please give it a few days and see how much of a negative impact there is.

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just a reminder: any curators wishing to help clean up ungrafted taxa can use https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNat_Ungrafted_taxa.html

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