Inventing common names redux

[alesbucek]

@pmeisenheimer

I was annoyed by yet another arbitrary, dreary and misleading common name being applied to a unique and interesting animal by an arbitrary process and puzzled that iNat does not recognize that it’s model presents opportunities to do the job better. If the resources and the interest aren’t there, so be it.

Why do you think that iNat users will be generating better common names than biologists? Did you try to do any research on this? For example, ask curators which names they removed because they were created on iNat and whether they think these were good names? Or compare how good on average are names suggested by biologists versus names created by iNat users?