Okay, in the “add name section” it states: “Try to add names that have been used elsewhere. Please don’t invent new names”. I assume this is to avoid creating confusion or arguments within the community about a name that one person thought would be cool (or to avoid external confusion). I was wondering, would it be acceptable to implement this system or something similar:
For taxa with no common name mentioned anywhere, or specifically in the person’s language, someone can suggest a common name. This can then be supported through a “one-sided” voting system the same as the feature request vote system. Once a name reaches a certain amount of votes, it can be elligible for being assigned to that taxon.
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This system can also help reduce the workload of deleting names that iNat users invented and assigned to taxa themselves (as mentioned in this forum
post–>https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/common-names-invented-on-inat/27452).
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I came up with this idea when thinking about how fitting “San Franciscan Crane Fly” would be as a name for Tipula vestigipennis (as the scientific name translates to something not specific to this species [multiple species have reduced wings in some form]), which is endemic to San Francisco and San Mateo County.
