Is it not against any iNat guidelines to have a name which literally says ‘we offer wildlife tours contact me (phone number)’? I find it quite disruptive.

Generally, profiles have fairly wide latitude in what is posted on them as long as the account isn’t solely intended to drive profit/creating spammy content on iNat. If an account is otherwise posting non-spam content on iNaturalist, this is probably ok for profile text. Users also post to personal …

How to raise a flag about a user’s profile rather than an observation?

yeah, generally a link to a tour business, or professional photography site or something in the profile is OK. but if the user includes that content in their observations, that’s considered spam.

Would having the promotional content in the username itself be considered including it in observations?

Potentially, but would need specifics (please don’t share here)

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bouteloua February 15, 2026, 4:25pm 4

There isn’t a way for you to flag an entire account or profile but you can reach out to staff here with the details : https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/tickets/new

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