iNaturalist and Wikipedia

I frequently use the Wikipedia template suggestion from iNaturalist when there is not yet a Wikipedia article on the species observed. (e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/70357-Eurydema-dominulus). I am getting some pushback for the parent taxon parameter in that template https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Andrawaag#parent_parameter_in_taxoboxes. I personally like the explicitness given that there is not always consensus between resources on what the parent is, but I can also see that this can be an issue, given no reference is given in the infobox.

I am wondering if is not better to remove the parent field from the template and deal with the disagreement in the Wikipedia article itself.

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