# Do not overwrite placeholder text

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-not-overwrite-placeholder-text/4095>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [June 12, 2019, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-not-overwrite-placeholder-text/4095 "2019-06-12T13:39:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![kiwifergus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/kiwifergus/32/1904_2.png) [@kiwifergus](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/kiwifergus)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 8:24am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-not-overwrite-placeholder-text/4095/9 "2019-06-13T08:24:40Z")

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I experimented recently, not intensively though, and it seemed to replace the placeholder with the vernacular of whatever you ID it as, and deleting that ID didn’t restore back the previous (first) placeholder.

[https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/searching-placeholders/3496/10?u=kiwifergus](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/searching-placeholders/3496/10)

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