I feel I have to clarify that the issue of introduced vs native organisms has very little to do with the one raised by Pablo.
Often plants are also cultivated in the same area where they are native and alien species are already marked .
Concerning cultivated plants, sometimes users answer that they did not notice the box to be checked. More often they just go on posting unflagged cultivated plants as it was the norm here. The pop-up too could intended as a way to make users think if the organism they are goig to post is wild or not. This could also allow other users to understand if there is someone here who has an imprecise idea of what wild and cultivated/captive mean.
Yes, letâs please keep this topic focused on the request at hand, which is adding some sort of pop-up or message to help explain that observations should be marked as captive/cultivated/planted/not wild when appropriate.
For discussions about native/non-native/introduced/invasive/autochthonous/native-to-the-site/remnant/etc, please search for the forum for existing topics to continue. Same for discussions about captive/cultivated that arenât related to this specific feature request. Thank you!
However I have a related question: why not just allow three options, one for wild, one for capitive/cultivated, and one for unspecified and uncertain, and then have the field default to uncertain?
This way there is zero bad data.
The status quo of assuming wild by default seems to be the problem. Many plant species have their records totally dominated by landscaping plants and it would take DAYS of work to manually correct these. Why design the site in a way that requires users to do extra work to fix a problem?
Iâm speaking for myself, but I donât think the other discussion is completely irrelevant to this topic. If I get prompted to identify an organism as captive/cultivated and Iâm not sure which one is it, I will struggle about chosing either of them, because there are exotic (and local) species that have gone wild inside controlled environments (gardens, parks, streets) and there are âusuallyâ cultivated organisms that have been abandoned and now grow wild.
Thatâs why I feel that prompting users for a âwild or captiveâ question might not help, because there are a lot of situations were the answer is a shade of gray instead of black or white. As @cazort mentioned, maybe an âuncertainâ option will be helpful to improve quality of data.
Yeah the issue is that those questions have already been discussed at length and also are subject of continuing discussion, in other threads. So itâs better to continue the conversation there. Otherwise this will get totally Derailed and there will be two threads about the same thing.
Closing. I dont think weâll add a pop-up for this for every observation or ID but will go over wild/not-wild in the planned onboarding we plan to add (not estimate as to when, though).