Ok, so I just tried to swap the old name of Sphinx geminus, which was still active on iNat with Lintneria geminus, which is the valid name of the taxon. I put the name Sphinx geminus as input and Lintneria geminus as output, filled all the citations and proceeded with the taxon swap. What happened …

@jiri_hodecek deleting a taxon change has no impact on it. It will not change back the data to its state before the change was activated. There is no way for curators to ‘undo’ a taxon change once activated. In cases where a change done has caused major problems, then site staff can undo one, but t…

[image] cmcheatle: u remember what type of taxon swap you tried to run (split, swap etc) ? I tried to do taxon swap as mentioned. And I am quite positive I did it correctly, at least I was being very careful where I put what, because I knew it can be irreversible. I have no idea, what happene…

[image] jiri_hodecek: Lintneria geminus I’ve manually readded L. geminus: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1270261-Lintneria-geminus Because the name L. geminus was under the genus Sphinx, it seems that you must have put something in the wrong box, for sure. I concur with Chris.

Here’s a draft swap that I created for you: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/96822 I left the source empty because I do not know what source you are using for this.

[image] jiri_hodecek: Lintneria geminus It’s still not exactly clear what the taxa change you ran was. There is still an active taxon poage for S. geminus - https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/143818-Sphinx-geminus There is now a page for Lintneria geminus which was literally created minutes a…

[image] cmcheatle: I’m not really sure there is a way to see what if any observations were impacted due to the deletion of the original taxon change you made. If the original L. geminus taxon was still available as inactive, we’d be able to search for any observations with an identification o…

[image] zdanko: with an identification of it, but since it seems to have disappeared, that’s not an option I am really sorry about this. I will try to describe the situation to you as best as I can: Before I did any changes, there were both taxons active on iNat - Spinx geminus and Lintneria…

Maybe the site lagged and reverted it back to a merge instead of the intended swap? You can flag taxa to be swapped if you don’t want to do it yourself.

[image] zdanko: Maybe the site lagged and reverted it back to a merge instead of the intended swap? Even if it were somehow set as a merge, it still should have left behind an inactive taxon which doesn’t seem to be there.

[image] jiri_hodecek: Now I am afraid to do more changes to not screw up even more Still be comfortable making and adding new changes. If you feel it is safer, try and find ones where there are no observations recorded that would cause any issues to practice on, or save them as a draft and as…

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