When reading about Acris blanchardi I noticed that on the suggestion page it’s described as a subspecies of Acris crepitans.. though thats no longer the case and they are considered distinct species. How would I get this reviewed and corrected?
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I replicated your issue on the new iOS app, but I noticed that if you then tap the “read more on Wikipedia” link on the app, it goes to the current version of the Wikipedia page which refers to Acris blanchardi as a species. So your app must be using a stored outdated version of the Wikipedia page. I don’t know how this works on the app, but I would guess that the next time it updates, it will get the current Wikipedia page.
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I get the same results on the suggestion page on desktop aswell so it can’t be the app itself.
I re-worded the post to better suit the issue, I misunderstood.
The old version of the article may be cached for a bit, I’m pretty sure that’s what’s happening.
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A very old version of the article? That text is more than 6 years old. On October 29, 2018, “darkly” and “is seen” were changed on Wikipedia to “dark” and “can be found.” (And the change to its own species was in November 2019.)
Googling the full sentence starting with “It is seen throughout” in quote marks, the only results are guide pages on iNaturalist, such as this one: https://www.inaturalist.org/guide_taxa/776154
Is the app getting the text from the deprecated guides feature somehow? If not, where is the guides feature pulling from?
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The very old summary was still cached on iNat, no one had refreshed it apaprently. Here’s a screenshot of the taxon edit page a few minutes ago:
I just refreshed it, and it’s looking good to me:
It’s almost certainly not pulling the summary from a Guide.
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Looks correct now, thank you all for your help!
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Sorry, I didn’t answer your original question.
If you find an issue with a taxon, the best thing to do is to flag the taxon. Go to its page on iNaturalist’s website, make sure you’re logged in, and click on Curation under the graph. Then select “Flag for curation”.
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