Need help understanding taxonomic change to Lithophragma bolanderi

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This is an old observation of mine, that I identified as Lithophragma bolanderi: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5713826

One person agreed with my ID, but that person’s ID was affected by a taxon swap that resulted in an inactive taxon. The current taxon is Lithophragma bolanderi. Shouldn’t the inactive taxon be updated automatically to the current taxon?

I didn’t flag for curation because I don’t disagree with Lithophragma bolanderi. Is it a bug that the inactive taxon doesn’t automatically change?

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I’m not really sure what’s going on here. First step would be to just tag the user and request they fix the ID. I think this is a bug.

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I’m pretty sure kemper has opted out of having the system automatically update IDs after taxon changes.

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So I think it’s intended behavior for the ID to stay there, but the taxon to be inactive.

I’m guessing when the species to subspecies swap happened (2018), kemper’s ID was auto-updated, but during the more recent subspecies to species swap (2020), it was not.

@saturnring do you know why your original L. bolanderi ID didn’t get moved to the subspecies ID at the same time as kemper’s? Did you opt out of auto-updates maybe? Or delete the ID later?

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I haven’t looked at this observation for a long time. It’s very possible that I could have deleted an ID of mine that was of an inactive taxon. I don’t think I have ever been opted out of auto-updates, but it’s possible that I may have been briefly at some point.

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Thank you both. I think it makes perfect sense that this would happen if someone was opted-out of automatic updates after the inactive taxon was added. So apparently it’s not a bug, which was what I was concerned about.

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