User roles

Last edited about 4 years ago — Added almost 5 years ago

Visitors without an account can:

• Suggest edits

Any registered user can:

• Post comments
• Manage issues
• Edit wiki pages

Helper editors can:

• Manage feedback
• Manage history items and reference sections (except delete)
• Add and edit institutions (except delete)
• Manage journals (including deleting unused)
• Manage protonyms (including deleting unused)
• Manage references (except delete)
• Manage tooltips (except delete)
• Delete unused authors

Editors can:

• Delete more things (history items, reference sections, unused references)
• Add and edit taxa
• "Taxon operations"
  • Create combinations
  • Convert to subspecies
  • Create obsolete combinations
  • Elevate to species
  • Force parent change
• Move history items
• Reorder history items
• Manage institutions (except delete)
• Edit name records (taxa and protonyms)
• Browse PaperTrail versions
• Review references
• Manage site notices
• Merge authors
• Manage author names (including deleting unused)

Superadmins can:

• Delete even more things (activities, feedback, institutions, site notices, wiki pages)
• Approve all references
• Editor other users (including editing roles, locking users)