Hi, I flagged the cranefly genus Gonomyia to add the subgenera. Now there is only one added. As it a very large genus subgenera are pratical. I waited 9 months already but I don’t know how or who I can ask to speed it up. Thanks, Micha

Hi @ mdoliveira . I am not familiar at all with this genus so I can’t do anything directly but I did tag in the comment section of your flag asking a curator of fly species to see if they could take action, enlist help from another curator more directly knowledgable about this genus or provide commen…

If you have specialist knowledge, e.g. some diptera families and would like to regularly update taxonomy and add new species, consider becoming a curator yourself

Also, @ mdoliveira Here is the iNat curator guide, if interested, https://inaturalist.ca/pages/curator%252Bguide

In general, there are a lot of unresolved curator flags - all non-staff curators are essentially volunteers (and staff generally don’t curate taxonomy much except for large actions that only they can do). Mentioning potentially knowledgeable curators on a flag (as done above) is a good way to start. …

Thanks for the help! Let’s see if there is a reply. So it would also be possible for me to become a curator of only the craneflies (Tipulomorpha) for example?

Curators aren’t split up by taxon groups, but yes, if approved you could choose to only curate craneflies.

@mdoliveira There is some discussion in both flags opened for Gonomyia including some questions for you about the requested change. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47991/flags

It was nice to see some informative answers here finally given to this user. I’ve directly made the initial requested curatorial steps on this taxon. Waiting 9 months on a taxonomy flag without response reflect very poorly on iNat. If it were exceptional, i would suggest that, but it’s not, i’d sadl…

[image] sjl197: Anyway, just for context on the scale of “flag(s) not being resolved”, i can only speak to the scope of flags arthropods which this falls under. Indeed there’s a backlog. Currently there’s about 1000 unresolved taxon flags for arthropods as a whole, and notably more than half of …

“Would you say”. Well, any view i suspect will be very subjective. Right now (and limited to those remaining for arthropods), then i’d say the vast majority has some sort of response. However, i contextualise that by saying i suspect over the last year, much of the backlog clean-out has favored thos…

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