The state of common names

[optilete]

@lawnranger

Names ‘transferred’ out of a ‘bad’ lexicon into a ‘good’ one will still have the original creation date. New copies of existing common names are re-created on the output taxa as part of taxon changes, there are about 1000 of these names created during January.

Saw weird things happening, this might be a good explanation.

@lawnranger

Messy, yes! Don’t think there are any duplicates, should be a straightforward combination.

I do not think so, check this table, some occurs 4 times: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/finding-out-common-names-numbers-per-language/17902/34

@dianastuder

From my ignorance I cannot pick up other African languages, but most are from Europe (and cosmopolitan English ((French and Spanish too?)) is everywhere, ‘Esperanto’ on iNat)

Ndebele and Sotho are ( I guess) another ones, in the language und(efined?).
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/finding-out-common-names-numbers-per-language/17902/32

Download the file in that thread if you want to see all >1000 lexicons.