In the past it was a bit difficult to deal with the issue that arose when there were duplicate plant entries in the database. Admins had to manually move the images and comments over to one entry, and then delete the other entry. Anyone who had plants in their lists were affected, along with growers reports and tagged images in the Multi-Plant images.
So I have written a "Merge two plants" feature. So now if you see duplicate plants, just open one of them (it doesn't matter which) and click on "Merge this plant entry with another"
Then search for the other plant and select it and submit the proposal. When it is approved by a moderator, the system will:
1) Figure out which entry is older.
2) Move everything from the newer entry to the older one (list entries, images, comments, tagged plants.)
3) Delete the newer of the two.
I tested it on
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum 'Sungold') (which was duplicated by an entry called 'Sun Gold') and it worked perfectly!
