One thing that would go at least some of the way toward solving this would be changing the default search to Active, rather than Consensus ID (see my Feature Request). Right now, observations in this situation don’t just need a third expert–they need a third expert who knows to use “ident_taxon_id” or searches through upper-level taxa to find these observations in the first place.
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