Hi everyone, I’m a bit puzzled by why what I’m doing is not working. Is this a bug or am I doing something stupid? The genus Flammulina is used for both a snail and a fungus and on Wikipedia the page “ Flammulina ” is the fungus and “ Flammulina_(gastropod) ” is the snail. The iNat taxon page for the…

the issue here (and in a lot of similar cases) was on wikidata, where the iNat taxon ID for the snail was mistakenly linked to the wikidata item for the fungus; i’ve fixed that on wikidata, and it should update accordingly on iNat soonish

Ah! Thanks! I didn’t think to check Wikidata. I appreciate your help.

Fixing a mis-directing Wikipedia page (for Flammulina the snail not the fungus)

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thebeachcomber May 17, 2025, 9:17am 2

for many of these, there’s an extra underlying issue. @sjl197 deals with a lot of these and can explain more

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Fixing a mis-directing Wikipedia page (for Flammulina the snail not the fungus)

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