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8 months ago Team's Response
Yes, perhaps this is something we could consider for future versions of this product, but we are hesitant to roll this out as a feature as different reserves may have different ways of tracking species names (for instance, they could be associating species names with IDs, or using other special characters to add additional information), so we do not think that it is relevant for now.
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Team chose [response.NotInScope]
- [x] I disagree
Reason for disagreement: There are international standards for the documentation of species names and I would argue that most established wildlife reserves would and should abide by a standard naming convention for species to facilitate international data collection and scientific research purposes. It is unlikely that wildlife reserves remain adamant on using exotic characters for naming species as that would make their scientific entry extremely hard to integrate into national databases that make use of standard conventions for example and ultimately reduce the value of these entries. The example i raised in my issue is one such example of a species name that would be hard to make sense of following standard conventions.
For reference, you may check out some existing species naming conventions like International Code of Zoological Nomenclature here or here and others like the IUCN documentation formats here. These are very established naming conventions widely adopted for species documentations and they do not make use of garbage expressions, and it is very likely wildlife reserves follow similar conventions for their entries. Hence, I do not feel this bug is Out of Scope.
Rectifying this bug is certainly important given it compromises the scientific value this program is designed to uphold and should not be delayed to future iterations given the nature of the program.
This is problematic as the app is meant for the documentation of scientific animal species in the reserve, allowing the use of special characters and garbage expressions for species name will cause the app to lose its scientific accuracy for wildlife data, which greatly reduces the value brought by the app.