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Handle taxonomy synonyms #836

Open jiho opened 2 years ago

jiho commented 2 years ago

Many taxa names in WoRMS are synonyms; most of the time one is the accepted name and the other ones are deprecated. We will have all of them once switched to WoRMS. Two solutions:

  1. deprecate the synonymised taxa, prevent people from adding more data in them and encourage + give them tools to classify in the new correct taxon.
  2. allow the use of the old name but, when a query is made, give back all images tagged with any of the synonyms.

1 is stricter and results in cleaner datasets but requires an action from the users. 2 is how OBIS proceeds and advises to proceed.

picheral commented 2 years ago

I do prefer the second option. It is much more flexible and the classification will remain "stable" when the taxonomy will change in WORMS.

grololo06 commented 2 years ago

I assume we're talking here about synonyms within the same parent, and only leaf nodes ? Otherwise it's a bit implementing the WoRMS switch inside EcoTaxa itself. I think that solution 1 "tool" is already kind-of implemented in "Fix Category Issues" function.