A university in my area is clearly currently doing some sort of class project and hundreds of observations are flooding in, many of which are improperly marked cultivated plants. I have been trying to work through them, but I am merely one man and can only make a small dent in the numbers. Some help…

have you reached out to the project creator to explain the situation?

I tend to come off as blunt and rude most of the time without intending to, so no. If someone else would do it for me, that would be appreciated. Either way, I still need help sorting through these all.

[image] raymie: I tend to come off as blunt and rude most of the time without intending to, so no. Haha - we love you anyway, raymie! I just ID’d some of them (couldn’t resist the dandelions, for example :slightly_smiling_face:).

Observations continue to flood in today, mostly outside of the project. I’ve been working through them slowly but they’re coming in faster than I can deal with them today.

as someone who also comes off as blunt and rude and knowingly argues too much about taxonomy i have to share that i sometimes imagine you as an actual Canada goose because hey they always come off blunt and rude also. Which maybe makes me some form of badger or something And yeah this one is defini…

Good practice for the City Nature Challenge, which will also create thousands of observations of not wild organisms. One week to go!

Last night, I attended (via Zoom) the last meeting for CNC organizers. The global organizers emphasized yet again the need to mark captive and cultivated organisms as Not Wild, so they are doing their part to try to get cultivated plants appropriately marked as Casual. But my guess is that the teach…

Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the fact that you and others have the time, motivation, and patience to try to address situations like this. I certainly don’t. But isn’t this more of a problem for the person organizing the project and the students involved in it? Whether blunt or polite, a messa…

I absolutely agree, but in the few instances where I’ve tried to write the project leader about these sorts of issues, I couldn’t find out who the leader was. ETA: Let me clarify, now that I remember more details: Once, when I wrote the administrator of an iNat class project, I got no reply back.…

I have seen one school project in the Canary Islands - where, for once, the teacher is active on iNat, and tidying up after her school kids.

A Class Project! Help!

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I want to take this moment as well to wistfully wish a draft mode existed that could help give class projects more structure.

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