Taxonomic Swap 124619
(Guardado el 16/03/2023)
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Sorry for the confusion, was an accidental swap, I reversed it simply by renaming the species.
@loarie - can you please review what has happened here and sort out so that it does not happen again.
This appears to have happened before - https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_swaps/31985
Lots of duplicates: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/search?is_active=any&q=Afrius&utf8=%E2%9C%93
some explained here: https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/233126
No real issues there.
This swap predicated by this https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/610147 (with discussion at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/28343450)
But why on earth a swap from an old name to a new SAME name.
But note::: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1458194-Afrius-yolofus is funny: the displayed name is Afrius-yolofus but the scientific name is Afrius purpureus
Something went wrong here. If supect that 1458194 was created as purpureus, and then incorrectly changed to yolofus, instead of being swapped back into 627731
Please fix if you can.
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Sorry: only saw your reply when I posted my notes.
Note that you cannot just change the scientific name: it cannot just be "fixed". What you have done is un-synchronized the display name from the scientific name. And the display name is a synonym of the name.
I suspect that the swap needs to be undone (only Scott can do that), - or alternatively (after 1458194 is returned to its proper valid state) the reverse swap (from 1458194 TO 627731 needs to be done.
But let us wait for Scott: he will know what will work best. Perhaps he can tweak 1458194 so that it will work properly.
@lehelind can you go here https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1458194-Afrius-yolofus
And under taxon names:
Edit Scientific Names Afrius yolofus and set currently accepted to true
Edit Scientific Names Afrius purpureus and set currently accepted to false
@tonyrebelo looks like lehelind:
created Afrius purpureus
swapped Afrius yolofus into Afrius purpureus
changed the name (partially) of Afrius purpureus to Afrius yolofus
usually you can't change the name of a taxon but there's an exception for taxa a curator creates. But I agree it's not ideal to change the name (even for a taoxn you created) once a taxon has been swapped etc because it can be confusing for the community to follow what happened/
lehelind in the future feel free to ping me to revert an accidental swap. Or if there's just a few obs like this involved you can always swap back in the other direction Afrius purpureus -> Afrius yolofus rather than editing the name
But since this was mostly done, I'd prefer to just finish changing the name Afrius yolofus with the two steps I mentioned above and consider this situation sorted
Thanks!
Thank you both. Done. I often came across the advice, as a content author, to just rename a taxon rather than make a swap - to reduce "traffic", but I agree, in the end this results in even more confusion. I'll do this correctly in the future.
Personally, I dont like that approach of renaming a taxon. If I ID something as "sp X" - I dont want to discover at some future date that I apparently identified it as "sp Y" - which is not true! :: I want a clear trail that says that I identified it is "sp X" and that at some date, it was swapped - by someone else - to "sp Y". Even just for spelling issues and gender changes.
What on earth is this about? Why did you swap to the same name?