I mentioned this on the pine flag but this is probably a better place to discuss this. In both the pine split and the recent herring gull split, the parent taxon (taxons IDs 48461 and 204533 respectively) remained as one of the daughter taxa despite the fact that the new taxon concept is pretty different from the old concept. Is this standard practice? Why isn’t a new daughter taxon created for every member of the split to keep the old (now inactive) IDs accurate to their intentions?
I’m struggling to interpret the text in the curator guide but I haven’t tried to understand this before so it’s quite possible I’m missing something:
Splits: Most content just gets left with the input taxon.