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Taxonomic updates: Require user approval to update genus names #451

Closed ehwenk closed 4 months ago

ehwenk commented 4 years ago

There were a number of cases where a taxon name was automatically changes from an APNI-accepted name (usually Orchids) to a quite similar APC-accepted name that was in a completely different family but only 2 characters different. To avoid this, we could limit automatic taxon name changes to changes within a given family. The matches in different families could still be included in the list of suggestions, but just couldn't happen without someone accepting the name change.

ehwenk commented 3 years ago
ehwenk commented 3 years ago

On hold, pending a longer discussion about how to better align taxonomic names when fuzzy matching is required.

In addition to the examples given initially, there have been misalignments in datasets with considerable representation of non-native, non-naturalised species (i.e. eFLOWER), where the algorithm made nonsensical changes to coerce non-Australia species names into species in APC/APNI

Again, restricting to within family changes would have sufficed - and allowed us to catch typos within genera