Wrong information link to Wikipedia

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https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/547897-Ctesias

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Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):

Step 1: look up https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/547897-Ctesias

Step 2: tip/click on “Information”

Step 3: Result: The information hyperlink leads to the Wikipedia page about an ancient Greek named Ktesias.(https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktesias_von_Knidos)
This is not appropriate.The link should be better changed to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctesias_(beetle)

Thanks in advance! (Please give me a hint if the “BugReports-Category” was not the right place to report this tiny weak (more semantic than functional) bug.)

Someone may already have fixed it! The Ctesias page now seems to link to the correct article…

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in the future you don’t need to submit bug reports for this, just flag the taxon and a curator can just fix it pretty quick

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Link still remains the wrong… hmmm…
Maybe it is only the case if the user interface / profile language is “German”.
I’ll report it directly to the curator on the taxon page. Thanks for the hints.

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yeah, unfortunately the system is not set up to accommodate all scenarios, but there is a related feature request here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/show-wikipedia-template-if-no-article-exists-for-a-given-taxon-id-and-language-in-wikidata/23381

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