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I tagged the 5 top identifiers for koala subspecies for input, and 3 of them have responded saying they would not be opposed to the lumping. Since that encompasses the majority of who I asked, I think we can probably commit this.
Unintended disagreements occur when a parent (B) is
thinned by swapping a child (E) to another part of the
taxonomic tree, resulting in existing IDs of the parent being interpreted
as disagreements with existing IDs of the swapped child.
Identification
ID 2 of taxon E will be an unintended disagreement with ID 1 of taxon B after the taxon swap
If thinning a parent results in more than 10 unintended disagreements, you
should split the parent after swapping the child to replace existing IDs
of the parent (B) with IDs that don't disagree.
I tagged the 5 top identifiers for koala subspecies for input, and 3 of them have responded saying they would not be opposed to the lumping. Since that encompasses the majority of who I asked, I think we can probably commit this.