I notice sometimes that withdrawn identifications get updated with taxon changes. Is there a reason why that should happen, or is it a bug? Just one example that was in State of Matter Life before my ID: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/20619064

I assume that the observer didn’t actually withdraw their ID themselves. Instead, there was a taxon split on Nov 19 and the observer’s original ID was automatically withdrawn as part of being replaced with the new taxon name. Do you see something that indicates otherwise?

You’re right, that may be what happened on this one.

I guess it would be helpful if the taxon split process labelled the former identification “ID automatically replaced”. That would make it a lot clearer what happened to users reading through the chain of IDs.

Why are withdrawn IDs updated with taxon changes?

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rupertclayton January 6, 2020, 9:41pm 5

And in fact there’s already a feature request here to fix this, which I have just upvoted.

Topic		Replies	Views
Improve wording of IDs created by taxon changes Feature Requests issue-made , implemented	9	973	May 6, 2025
Observation taxon 'unknown' when observer id withdrawn Bug Reports	2	404	April 6, 2020
Changing the way taxon changes are handled General	2	513	July 22, 2023
Updating IDs after taxon change doesn't always work Bug Reports	2	311	March 10, 2023
Is it possible to have all my IDs withdrawn from a species group? General	17	1358	April 21, 2023

Why are withdrawn IDs updated with taxon changes?

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