There’s currently a push to dramatically change the taxonomy of a common pine species with over 40,000 observations. There’s a flag, but it’s not easy to find, i didn’t know about it until recently and the flag has existed for over 5 years. I’m concerned a small group of people on iNat are making ch…

[image] charlie: how do we get curators to take creating sections and such more seriously and get them to at least consider doing them with every split? It looks like at least in the pine split all 3 daughter species are in Subsection Ponderosae. More broadly there are a couple issues here. …

[image] charlie: I don’t want to create a feature request here because any time i do it just gets rejected by admin because they say ‘post it in flags instead’ or else i just get harassed and called lazy. Why spend a bunch of time creating something to get insulted about?. So i keep posting beca…

If you are interested, you can look on my journal which has some ideas https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/charlie . I may add some other ideas there too. I’ve also posted dozens if not hundreds of suggestions on this forum which you can look up of you want (including this post when it started), bu…

[image] keirmorse: So, post something constructive with clear solutions to debate that will work for the maximum amount of people and someone else can post it as a feature request. What would your policy change be exactly? The most recent proposal I’ve seen from Charlie is here . Personally I…

[image] upupa-epops: Personally I don’t think that proposal is going to be appealing to either the staff or the community, which makes it infeasible in practice. I explained my thinking on that a bit more in another thread and Charlie seemed to agree (Charlie, correct me if I’m interpreting inco…

[image] charlie: deleting my forum account. Just FYI, deleting may not be possible, just anonymizing

maybe just scrambling my password then.

relatedly, it would be really nice to have an option to have all my IDs for others deleted when taxonomy change occurs. I am now getting a million notifications for people forcing pines into these new ‘species’, and i am not going to agree with those IDs but don’t really want to start arguments on o…

[image] jdmore: . I think the argument could be made that this is the system “forcing” an identifier to identify beyond their confidence level, which has always been actively discouraged by the site. (Practical feasibility, of course, is not something I can predict…) Right. Most of these enti…

Should taxonomic changes on very important, high profile taxa be discussed more broadly than flags?

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arboretum_amy December 31, 2024, 4:47pm 89

Just FYI, deleting may not be possible, just anonymizing

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Should taxonomic changes on very important, high profile taxa be discussed more broadly than flags?

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