Closed josephwb closed 8 years ago
Can we make this a priority? I don't believe there even exists a complete list of flags. We need this for moving forward with the next synthesis.
Much better!
"merged" probably needs a bit of extra information. "unplaced" is a bit of a head-scratcher. so, do we not want to include them? may be good species (or whatever), just of unknown placement. i guess the same goes for "incertae sedis": there are certainly real bird species without known taxonomic/phylogenetic relationships.
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Joseph W. Brown notifications@github.com wrote:
Much better!
"merged" probably needs a bit of extra information.
will get on it.
"unplaced" is a bit of a head-scratcher. so, do we not want to include them? may be good species (or whatever), just of unknown placement. i guess the same goes for "incertae sedis": there are certainly real bird species without known taxonomic/phylogenetic relationships.
I've been saying this for years now. Stephen has always said they couldn't be included, but I never understood why.
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Little to no information exists as to what the different OTT flags mean. The wiki page points to taxomachine code, but little information exists there.
Came up because a paleo person was trying to understand "extinct_direct" vs. "extinct_inherited".