Should curators have a critical point of view when changing iNat taxonomy?

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@cthawley

I suppose that, if at some point so many IDs are changed to the complex, that the relevant species are no longer included as CV options, that might make a difference as it would reduce CV-based IDs.

I don’t think this realistically can happen in many cases (especially with commonly observed taxa), because both the CV and the iNat ID structure in general are so extremely biased towards getting species IDs. I’ve complained about this before here. The same issues occur beyond species complex level with all of these taxa.