For whatever reason this taxon swap just didn’t go through: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/109380 The input taxon was inactivated, but none of the IDs changed. I tried to commit again but got an error. It would be good to activate the input taxon for now, but I’ll leave it as to see if …

That is not committing because Lindapecten muscosus in inactive and its parent Lindapecten is also inactive. The change is trying to activate Lindapecten muscosus but an active taxon can’t have inactive parents You can address this by first activating Lindapecten and then committing the swap But …

Thanks! [image] loarie: But yes, we need to build a better error message to alert folks why the commit isn’t working in those situations The input taxon also shouldn’t be inactivated in that case.

Taxon swap inactivated input taxon without transferring IDs

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Taxon swap inactivated input taxon without transferring IDs

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