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Description
This is an idea based on a comment from @Ejgouda (»The record need to stay in the database, not to loose any information, but to the outer world it does not exist«), and definitely related to the two issues see #444 and #445 from @RoDuth.
When you have Accessions linked to a Taxon, and the Taxon gets status of Synonym, with an accepted Taxon elsewhere, what's the point of having to perform any changes in the database when your goal is to guarantee that your reports (e.g.: labels) contain only accepted taxa? We have software, and we're rightfully lazy: isn't it much easier to use a global setting similar to the existing 'include synonyms'?
Expected behaviour
the software helps you link directly with the accepted taxon, unless you really want the one used originally. something like the redirect
feature in wikipedia, like for the Ghini page.
for example, Parasieranthes toona synonym of Falcataria toona. what already happens if you you look for Par too
, you get both the matching taxon and its accepted form in the results list.
The idea would be that all your accessions mentioning either of the two be reported as accessions of the accepted F. toona, regardless to which of the two they are linked.
From the opposite end, both taxa would show the complete list of accessions.
Advantage? in case your taxonomists decide that the accepted taxon is the other and not the one, you only reverse the link and your reports will show P. toona with no further intervention on the database.
particularly useful for authonyms #92 (comment).