What is the etiquette on adding photos to old observations? I have a number of observations that were imported from another service (waarnemingen.nl) around a year ago, all fields have been correctly imported but photos are not transferred, leading to the observations remaining casual. Recently, I…

First of all, so long as you are certain that the photo you are adding is in fact the one relevant for the observation (by rule the photo in an observation must be the individual specimen recorded in the observation, taken on the day when you are are reporting it for), there certainly is no issue wi…

I took a look at them as well (used to live in Europe), the issue I hit was the photos in most cases were not definitive. While there is no reason to doubt your ID’s, I did not feel that they met the ‘if someone showed you this picture and told you where and when it was taken, what would you ID it a…

If you have added a missing photo, location or observation date, the observation will stop being casual and land in the ‘needs id’ pile. In countries with lots of activity they will probably be found anyway.

Sort your observations into taxons and send a message to the top identifiers of the taxon inviting them to browse the lists. I’ve recently done this by messaging my fungi list to someone on our national fungi project and it worked well- they can just scan all my observations at once rather than me g…

Thanks everyone for their replies, here’s what I have learnt: Make sure your phottos match the exact observation (datetime, location). Wait a couple of days to see if it gets picked up by the ‘needs ID’ pile Ask any friends you might have that use iNat to have a look at the observations T…

[image] cmcheatle: First of all, so long as you are certain that the photo you are adding is in fact the one relevant for the observation (by rule the photo in an observation must be the individual specimen recorded in the observation, taken on the day when you are are reporting it for) Yes, …

As long as the photo you are adding is the one relevant for the observation, adding evidence to old (casual) observations is ok. But,tagging a top identifier in a comment won’t be so nice. Try not to do this too often.

I’ve had some luck tagging people who are not top identifiers, but just people who made and correctly identified observations of similar content (similar subject, geographic area, time frame.) First I would add IDs on some of their observations, and then I would comment something along the lines o…

Adding evidence to old (casual) observations

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alexis_orion July 22, 2019, 1:09pm 3

I wouldn’t say it’s rude, but if someone does it too much it can get annoying (I personally don’t really mind, but I know that some people do). I would be happy to help with European birds, if there are any of those left

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Adding evidence to old (casual) observations

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