What is the Featured option for, when creating a new taxon

Hi, I searched in the forum and couldn’t find a related topic about this. When I create a new taxon I always see that “featured” option and I have no idea what it is for, I tried looking for it in the curators guide and I didn’t find it either. It seems to be related to the photos of the taxon but beyond that I have no idea.

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Huh, I thought it put it in the rotating list of taxon pages at the top of this page: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa, but when I checked a few, none of them had that checkbox checked.


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https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/63453/edit


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https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/407980/edit

copying text for search purposes:
Featured
Yes, show this in the big box at the top of /taxa
Make sure the default photo looks good in large size.

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Couldn’t it be that in these examples there is no featured photo selected, so that the taxa info is populated by other criteria?