@tiwane or @pleary may want to know about this, if they’re not already aware, in case they have a way to short circuit this. looks like this is related to https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/import-csv-photo-link/68377. there, the user indicated that they intended to copy over 60,000 obs from another site, although looking at the source site, it’s unclear if those observations would all be their own observations. it looks like their script has copied over 22,000 observations so far since 2025-08-04, although a large chunk of the 6000 created today on 2025-08-11 are almost certainly erroneous duplicates of observations that have no photo.