# Curator contact? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** taxonomy\ **Created:** [April 28, 2025, 9:09am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/curator-contact/64477 "2025-04-28T09:09:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![umehlig](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/umehlig/32/41795_2.png) [@umehlig](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/umehlig)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 9:09am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/curator-contact/64477/1 "2025-04-28T09:09:12Z")
Dear all, I’ve a couple of questions regarding some taxa of neotropical plants I’d like to ask a curator. How does one find a curator who is interested in certain (plant) families? The iNat People/Curators page is not especially helpful in that respect, and to tag someone (as recommended in the FAQ and in several form posts), you need a username, as far as I can see? Sorry if this is not the right place to ask! Cheers, Ulf ---
**Author:** ![thebeachcomber](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/thebeachcomber/32/12748_2.png) [@thebeachcomber](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/thebeachcomber)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 9:22am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/curator-contact/64477/2 "2025-04-28T09:22:15Z")
welcome to the forum the best thing to do is, for each case, to flag the parent taxon and start a discussion there. You do this by going to the profile for the taxon, and clicking curation → flag for curation under the seasonality chart ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/b/a/baf27ee320db6d2d1b36b20eb9df80db59410153.jpeg) all curators will then be able to see the flag(s) and respond ---
**Author:** ![umehlig](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/umehlig/32/41795_2.png) [@umehlig](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/umehlig)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 10:39am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/curator-contact/64477/3 "2025-04-28T10:39:05Z")
OK! Have done that now, many thanks! ---
**Author:** ![jdmore](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jdmore/32/1116_2.png) [@jdmore](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jdmore)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/curator-contact/64477/4 "2025-04-28T18:03:03Z")
> [@umehlig](#): > > How does one find a curator who is interested in certain (plant) families? Since curators are not automatically notified of taxon flags, you might also want to take the extra step of looking through the top identifiers for the family(ies) of interest, looking at their profiles, seeing which ones are labeled as curators, and specifically tagging those folks in a comment on your flag. It’s little more involved process, but might get faster and more targeted results. For example, here are the top identifiers for Family Proteaceae: [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?taxon\_id=64517&view=identifiers](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?taxon_id=64517&view=identifiers) Just substitute whichever family is of interest using the filter box. ---
**Author:** ![DianaStuder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dianastuder/32/43358_2.png) [@DianaStuder](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/DianaStuder)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 10:13am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/curator-contact/64477/5 "2025-04-29T10:13:04Z")
but not until after CNC IDs are done. 4 May. Back to my protea backlog then. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2025, 10:13am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/curator-contact/64477/6 "2025-06-28T10:13:48Z")
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