Hi everyone. I have two questions, listed in bold at the bottom of the post. I’ll give some context, before I ask the question. I’m running a project which is essentially a one-person bioblitz of an island in Australia. I often upload large numbers of observations of different individuals from th…

There is no way to submit an ID for 100 observations at once. In theory it’s a nice idea, but it opens up way too many possibilities for incorrect IDs to be instantly applied at a huge scale. If someone (for whatever reason) decided to troll, they could theoretically misID thousands of observations …

As Thomas points out, there is no way to ID multiple obs at the same time. You are allowed to post multiple observations of the same species. I can see why it might be annoying, but the identifier can simply filter to your account first, mark them all as reviewed, take off the filter, and then carry…

Thank you @kiwifergus . Food for thought. You’re right, if identifiers aren’t interested in IDing a cluster of similar observations, they can filter out my observations. I’m not sure what others think, but this seems like a very reasonable approach to me. I believe the alternatives you mention preclu…

[image] j-k: I believe the alternatives you mention preclude the observations from achieving research-grade status Yeah, sorry… that was the point of what I was getting at. Do your observations need to get to RG? If you are certain of the IDs you are applying, then you don’t need the confirma…

While in truth the community does not fully support this approach, inaturalist guidelines written by the site themselves say every single individual you wish to document must be a separate record. If you wish to document 2 separate individual plants of the same species that are 5cm apart, it is sup…

[image] j-k: However, one particular expert has become quite irate that many of my observations are of exactly the same common species. Eg, observations of the same species at 100 different locations (eg, 10 metre gaps between observations of the same species of mollusc) they may not like it,…

[image] kiwifergus: Alternatively, if you are confident of the IDs and don’t want the observations to impact on the identifying community, then you could make them photoless observations, or if photos are needed you could mark them as “ID is as good as it can be” to force the obs to casual grade…

Good point Charlie, I had forgotten about that change.

[image] cmcheatle: The degree to which people are willing to invest that much entry effort varies, but you are following the set site guidelines Thank you @cmcheatle . On the point of the amount of effort required, I’ll just make the point that for my own observations, I am able to select 10…

[image] charlie: they may not like it, but honestly, that’s their issue not yours. Your use of the site is fine. If they don’t like it they can filter you or that species out of their ID page if they want, but they should not be acting irate about this. If they persist please email help@inatural…

Bulk ID: Is there a way to identify large numbers of observations of the same species?

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bouteloua July 19, 2019, 5:53pm 16

Please move further discussion about this site guideline here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-is-an-observation/3367 Thanks!

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Bulk ID: Is there a way to identify large numbers of observations of the same species?

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