I think this is one of those background, kinda, sorta known about issues, but I dont think it is formally documented here, but there is still some process that allows users to select an inactive taxa for their ID. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/37619460 Was added minutes before I sent th…

Users able to select inactive taxa for an ID

bouteloua January 15, 2020, 6:20pm 2

old bug and one of the oldest bug reports from the forum! found this one: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/able-to-select-inactive-taxon-for-id/398/

Closing to combine into one topic.

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