There’s clearly a need for something like an “observation history”, or making it easier to maintain IDs of deleted accounts, so that laborious methods like this would not be needed. As has been pointed out elsewhere on the forum, a botanist who has annotated museum labels with species doesn’t have any sort of ownership over those IDs, and can’t take them with them if they decide not to work in botany any more. Something similar could be implemented here with an observation history, that would record all IDs added, or at least changes in the observation ID, without having to say who added them.
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