Hello, I’m a new curator and have a lot of questions about the process. I searched the forum first but didn’t get helpful results so apologies if this is all better explained elsewhere and I’m just not finding it (if so please redirect me). My name is Laura and I have been an editor on BugGuide for …

[image] thomaseverest: Yeah that’s pretty common for the sources we use. It doesn’t really matter exactly which one. If I type in just “wsc” I see the most current one Hello, I am also a new curator. Good to know, I was a bit confused about this. So, it is not necessary to create a new source…

If the name is in POWO, any generic POWO source is fine. Needing the exact version isn’t really necessary.

I’m also a bit confused. Some of this has clarified some of my questions, but I notice that if I use WoRMS as a source, there are these options that include a title and a URL. Does that mean that at some point someone has added the title and URL in separate boxes and it combines them into one if you…

You can just put the generic WoRMS source - no need to create individual links or link to primary literature.

Swapping a genus with a new synonymous genus I inadvertently made a an inactive taxon for a name that shouldn’t exist. Hypsocephalus pusillus = Staveleya pusilla (or Hypsocephalus pusillus = Hypsocephalus dahli = Staveleya pusilla, but I didn’t want to make dahli since that name was already outdate…

If you created it you can delete it. I’m not sure if this applies to automatically generated names or not, but even if it’s inactive it’s not a problem. You can delete the scientific name from the senior synonym if you don’t think it’s helpful. To avoid this, I usually individually swap any mismatc…

Thank you, I was able to delete the name from the list but not the page.

I made a big mistake in August and just found out about it. The type species of Alopecosa accentuata was synonymized with A. trabalis … which I did but somehow I missed that Alopecosa barbipes was made active again and that’s where most of the pictures should have gone, and maybe some to farinosa I’…

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