As a curator of locked taxa, it’s not uncommon for me to run into this scenario: someone types in a scientific name, but doesn’t find it in our taxonomy they search external name providers and get a hit the taxon comes in ungrafted but we already have a senior synonym in the system Now I have to …

[image] jwidness: plus curate the ungrafted taxon into the synonym. If by this you mean adding the ungrafted name as a Scientific Name synonym of the accepted taxon, I think that is a good thing to have to do, since it will help direct future name searches to the accepted taxon. When I have …

[image] jdmore: But once they are dealt with the first time, I would be all for having the system not allow them to come in again from external sources, at least for locked taxa. Once the name already exists on iNat (active or inactive) doesn’t the external search fail when it tries to add it…

I would hope so, but I don’t know that for a fact. Given the number of duplicate ungrafted names I have seen in the past, I kinda doubt it.

I recently deleted several duplicate taxa (Orders maybe) that all appeared to come from the same source ID from the Catalog of Life, so I agree there seems to be room for improvement here.

[image] jwidness: If any of our locked taxa (mammals, birds, etc.) are ancestors, do not allow the import. Should I re-submit this as a feature request? I’m getting pretty frustrated with cleaning up failed name imports into locked taxa. Asking individual users to use flags instead of the e…

Locked taxa and Search external name providers

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Prevent external name provider from attempting imports into locked taxa Feature Requests curation	1	559	June 29, 2020
Search external name provider creates taxa that are both grafted and ungrafted simultaneously Bug Reports web , curation	1	408	November 16, 2021
New taxon change page - prompt before importing from external provider Feature Requests	0	423	June 8, 2019
Linking TFR info with not currently accepted scientific names Curators	3	439	February 23, 2020
Creation of multiple copies of already existing taxa Bug Reports web	21	2039	November 27, 2020

Locked taxa and Search external name providers

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