General :microbe: Recruit more active curators (see backlog of taxon flags ) Improve the Curator Guide by making it more user-friendly. Separate “policies” from “how-tos”? More useful Curator dashboard - adding taxa, creating taxon changes, creating taxon framework relationships Develop a better loc…

Improvements to taxonomic curation on iNat - wiki

jdmore July 29, 2019, 6:45pm 7

@tigerbb You are not alone, and you might find this ongoing discussion of interest too.

Topic		Replies	Views
Allow taxon curators to edit taxon names, reducing "pointless" taxon changes for fixes like epithet ending changes or adding hybrid symbols Feature Requests web , under-review	45	4975	October 3, 2025
Limit curators' right to make taxon swaps of taxa they have observed or identified a few times Feature Requests	60	1872	June 3, 2025
New Curator with Questions Curators question	47	2362	November 30, 2022
Curating taxonomy? Anyone there? Curators	17	1187	September 16, 2025
Plans for 2019 Clements bird taxonomy updates Curators	59	6172	September 17, 2021