Going back to the question originally posed in the title of this topic, Should taxonomic changes on very important, high profile taxa be discussed more broadly than flags?
- Yes, imo. And,
- Early in the replies to this topic, this feature request was mentioned, and seems like the most practical and feasible idea anyone has come up with so far to address this question. Apparently the devs agree because it is currently tagged as “under-review.” I think this could go a long way toward improving the much-lamented status quo.
I think having this option available in one’s account settings could also be a reasonable feature request (perhaps along with options to merely withdraw the ID, or to leave it alone). 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…)