Unable to add scientific name synonyms

Why can’t I add synonyms? I’ve always been able to add synonyms to plant taxa but now I can’t, Why now only curators can do it?

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Are you getting some kind of specific error message, and if so can you cut and paste it. I can see the flag you put in, but as far as I can tell, there are no curators assigned to plants. I’m not aware of any changes in policy.

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This message always appears when I try to add a synonym

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And you were able to do this before today ?

Any chance you forgot to set the ‘no’ it is not currently accepted selection ?

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I do not forget to select the “no” option, but it is quite strange, I just changed my account settings to Spanish and now I can add synonyms.

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I can replicate. We’ll take a look.

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You already know this but when I tried adding a synonym in the English setting, it also gave me the runaround message stating only curators can add. However if it’s an English name, I can add it.

Now the message appears in INaturalist in Spanish

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Have non-curators ever been allowed to add scientific name synonyms? I don’t think so, and I’m not sure they should have that ability. (Adding the ability would be a new feature request.)

Looks like you selected one of these in the dropdown, which are duplicate added lexicon/languages. These are essentially acting as normal common names, which non-curators add, and not scientific names, which only curators can add.

The true selection for adding a scientific name is at the top of the list:

When I log into a non-curator test account, change my language to Spanish, and try to add a synonym selecting that top one, I am unable to:

But if I select one near the middle of the list, I am (because it’s just a normal “language”).

This is more obvious when you change your site language, but you can see in Spanish that the “c” in científicos is lowercase for the “true” scientific name lexicon:

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/556727.json

See also open issue to clean up duplicate lexicons:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/clean-up-currently-available-lexicons/12453
https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/2675
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/require-approval-for-addition-of-new-lexicon-for-common-names/9830