Hello, we have in our taxonomic trees a “taxon” labeled as synonym placeholder. We don’t know where it came from and it holds a lot of synonymized taxa that should be in different locations. Is there a way to either move the synonymized taxa to their proper locations or to delete them without doing it one at a time? There are thousands of them.
Thanks,
Ashley
Hi @fergashl,
Specify does not automatically create “Synonym Placeholder” nodes, as the WorkBench has not previously supported uploading synonyms and does not do so at this time.
Is it possible that these placeholders originated from a bulk upload that never replaced them? Would you like us to remove these placeholders if there are no linked taxon names?
Hi Grant,
I suppose that is possible, but if that was the case it was probably done on a different version of Specify. Could we have them deleted please? It makes it look like we have way more taxa than we actually do and makes queries bulky.
Thanks!