What to do with artificial hybrids?

My statement about relationship unknowns was intended to convey the current state of our taxonomy, even without a mass-import of unsourced artificial hybrids. It is this bad currently, without the addition of those extra taxa. Unsourced genushybrids and hybrids are not as bad as they were, because I have been working on them.

The issue with sorting species is that our compartments for sorting have to come from somewhere, and have to be maintained by someone. If you wish to become a curator and take responsibility for the organization of non-wild taxa, you are more than welcome to apply, but I do not think adding these additional groups is a good idea for the current state of iNat.

I did not intend to come off as condescending - I didn’t read the curator guide before I decided to apply for curator, so I don’t assume others have.

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