Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website, possibly others App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About): Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Chrome URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: One example, it seems to be across the …

are you sure they existed in the past for the taxa that you’re looking at? they’re not all gone. for example, see https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/48662-Danaus-plexippus : [image]

I’ve noticed the same thing, that taxa that formerly had bugguide links no longer have them.

Perhaps this is not related, but I also noticed that for most (all?) plants I look to, the link to POWO is also missing. It seems that before I could get to POWO easily through iNat. Maybe the link to POWO was removed because you can get to it through the IPNI link?

Previously, if there was a BugGuide page, there was a link. And Diaphania indica definitely has a BugGuide page: https://bugguide.net/node/view/867668 . Also, since the queen butterfly (in the same genus as the monarch) is also missing its BugGuide link [image] and has a BG page ( https://bugguide…

This has happened before and I restored the BugGuide link then. It should be investigated if there is a reason the BugGuide link just disappears on some taxa or if someone is unhelpfully deleting the link or editing it to apply to different taxa than before. The lost link was applied to all arthro…

[image] treichard: I have recreated the BugGuide link. the Monarch page now has 2 BugGuide links: https://bugguide.net/node/view/540 https://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&keys=Danaus%20plexippus&edit[type][bgpage]=on is this the expected result?

There was the single general BG link – applied to numerous taxa – that disappeared and which I have recreated. And then there are a handful of single-species links that others have added, which I have not touched. These latter species have both links. I still want to know: How can one see a list o…

[image] treichard: These latter species have both links. i guess my question is whether this is desired? could that be maybe why the generic link was removed?

[image] pisum: could that be maybe why the generic link was removed? Yes, this has happened with generic taxon links I have created for plants in the past. In an attempt to thwart this issue, I have left behind a comment similar to the following on each link I have created: PLEASE DISCUSS …

Since this does not appear to be a bug per se, but instead a case of different curators using existing functionality at cross-purposes, I am moving this topic to the Curators category.

BugGuide links have disappeared?

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BugGuide links have disappeared?

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