Hi all, I don’t know if something changed or if I’m just being dense, but I wanted to delete some inactive taxa from a checklist and found that only some of them have the little x that lets you do that (see image) [Screen Shot 2020-03-03 at 11.30.25 PM] I’ve never noticed this problem before. Co…

I was planning on asking the same question this week. I have also tried going through edit taxa selecting the inactive taxa and clicking remove and then clicking save. But when the page is reloaded the taxa remain.

I’ve asked other questions about checklist issues in the past and from what I understand it’s sort of a legacy aspect of iNat and not well maintained. There is some long-term planning to severely overhaul it, but it’s low priority and may never happen.

Dont use the x button, not sure what that is for. There are 2 things to try click the edit link under the record on the page that comes up towards the lower left is a remove from list link at the top of the list there is a tools drop down.Run those 2 jobs, the reload from observations first then t…

@astra_the_dragon Thank you! @cmcheatle Thanks for the suggestions. It is a checklist for a place. (In my case, Guizhou, China .) I have tried the first method but there’s no ‘remove from list’ (see screenshot). [checklist] The second method, I cannot see a tools drop down but I can click ‘Edit t…

The fact it is a place checklist complicates matters as they are more, although not fully automated. The species is on the checklist due to inheriting it from a range map. I’m surprised that range maps are not removed, or at a minimum inactivated after a taxa is deactivated. I will see if I can rem…

Ah ok, that makes sense. Hopefully it’s possible as it would help to clean up the list of suggestions when using the compare function. Also would help to avoid these taxa being proposed as IDs.

Let me reach out to the site about why the taxa ranges are retained. While it looks like I can remove them, before I do anything it is better to understand why they are retained.

Sounds sensible - thanks for looking into this.

Can you show how you get the compare tool to provide the inactivated taxa as a suggestion as you commented above? I cant seem to replicate that. I rarely if ever use that tool, but in experimenting with it, I cant seem to get the inactive taxa as a suggestion.

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jwidness March 5, 2020, 6:47pm 15

It’s already been reported.

Topic		Replies	Views
Exclude inactive taxa in list compare tool Feature Requests web	0	424	October 27, 2019
Make Edit Taxa button on checklists reflect chosen filters Feature Requests	1	242	July 28, 2020
No check lists allowed, but place still has check list Bug Reports web	1	479	January 29, 2022
Inactive taxa show up in Suggestions Bug Reports	3	542	December 5, 2019
Inactive taxa are displayed in Compare / Suggestions tool Bug Reports	6	666	April 17, 2020

Removing inactive taxa from checklist

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