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i think this has sort of been discussed in other threads. these are probably most relevant:

• https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-comments-or-wiki-like-functionality-on-taxa-pages-to-discuss-identification-and-other-relevant-issues/91
• https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/expand-the-similar-species-tab-into-an-editable-identification-guide/13890
• https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/proper-way-to-store-and-organize-hints-about-identification-of-taxa/8962

some selected staff comments from those threads:

@tiwane

during the retreat we discussed wanting to move forward with a way for user-contributed information to be added to a taxon’s page

@tiwane

but functionality that reduces scaling issues is the top priority at the moment, primarily life lists and subscriptions.

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@tiwane

I would rather that information be on iNat than Discourse, this shouldn’t be a place to host lots of taxonomic info.

@tiwane

Well, you can make a tutorial here on the forum and then have a curator link to it on the taxon’s about page. I just tried this on our test server for @JeremyHussell’s orbweaver tutorial :

Making a tutorial here on discourse is much easier than using iNat’s journal functions.