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zuzu said:it did affect existing plants.

This is something that we will just have to approach very carefully. The burden will be on me to make sure the transition does not cause a spillover of data that doesn't need added. And I can and will make specific backups so that if an error does occur, you can notify me and I can back out the change.

SongofJoy said:Question about moderating: staying with the example of the Hibiscuses, zuzu is working on the tropical Hibs so she would be assigned H. rosa-sinensis and its children and so forth. I am working with the hardy Hibs, H. syriacus and H. moscheutos, because those are the only two hardy Hibs that have parent plant info thus far. So I would get whatever falls under those.

Yes, and that's an advantage of my proposed change.

SongofJoy said:But what about the other tropical and hardy Hib species? They don't get assigned a moderator until they have a Parent entry or how do you see that working?

The way I envision it is that the parent plant is determined for each child this way:

Does the plant have a species? If so, is there a parent plant that has the species? If so, then that's the parent. If not, then is there a parent plant with NO species but the same genus? If so, then that will be the parent.

So in this way, way can have "Hibiscus" as a parent plant, AND "Hibiscus rosa-sinensis" as a separate parent plant. The former covers everything that the latter doesn't cover.