If I read it right, one of your comments in those flag discussions pointed out that the conservation status for a given taxon in a given place doesn’t have an automatic correspondence to its being obscured for that place.
Do you (or does anyone) know why that is? Why not just tie it to the conservation status and not have to deal with double the effort?
(I recall that there’s some weirdness due to status inheritance in subspecies–could be that that’s the reason?)