Platform(s): website Description of need: There are often multiple species in an observation. This is common with plants and parasites like galls/leafminers/fungi. People frequently seem confused when you request they duplicate an observation, they will often not don’t do it, or do it poorly (for …

I’m not sure if I’d want this, but I find the idea intriguing.

@tiwane https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000169931-can-i-identify-multiple-taxa-per-observation-what-if-my-photo-has-a-flower-and-a-cool-bug- This needs updating with - no need to ID as Life. Use the new DQA for more than 1 subject. I was hoping that question would t…

I routinely encounter multiple species per observation. I always downgrade the ID, leave a boilerplate comment, and move on. The comment is brief and general: Multiple photos, multiple species. Can you split this observation? Thanks! If there were a help page for this, I would include it in the …

I do a lot of sound IDs, and I’d support the “Request Duplicate” button just for the many sound recordings in which multiple species are singing. I have a text replacement to suggest that the OP duplicate the observation, but only a few follow through.

I would find that confusing, as an observer. On at least one occasion I inadvertently added an unrelated photo to an OBS, and it was pointed out to me in a comment by an IDer - something along the lines of “the organism in photo 3 is different from the organism in photos 1 and 2. You should make a s…

Let’s hope that a “multiple-species observation” (with different organisms in different photos) won’t get duplicated (all photos duplicated, making 2 “multiple-species observations”). Such a confusion would be even worse.

For multiple species each with their own photo https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000171680-what-do-i-do-if-the-observation-has-multiple-photos-depicting-different-species- ~ We have a new (since February) DQA - Evidence related to a single subject But this thread is f…

You can duplicate an observation and just delete the extra photos. I’ve done it. It’s not hard at all. I prefer that than a button that will select only one picture . What if the subject is in 3 pictures? I’ve had observations where there were three different bombus, so I duplicated it twice and t…

While this seems like a decent solution and not one I’d feel confused by, I admit that new users often have struggles that are hard for experienced users to fathom. But I do think some kind of UI flow should be implemented to address or mitigate the number of observations logged that have several ph…

My idea has mutated a few times on this. In the past I really wanted a “Request Observation Split” that behaved the same way. Maybe there is a clever way combine that idea in here.

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