I’d like to propose that a bulk identification tool be provided, in conjunction with a bulk-reversal tool for moderators/admin to use (to undo any damage arising from a user using the tool to conduct bulk-vandalism) The use cases include: a) Efficiently providing at least a Kingdom level ID when p…

@tripleaxel Right? It took me even longer! Seems like it could be made more discoverable than it currently is. Or maybe it’s intended that one be here for a while before gaining “the power”? :wink:

Has any progress been possible for this feature?

I think it’s far too easy to abuse a bulk ID tool. I sometimes use an external app that allows me to do rapid IDs of Unknowns, and even though I need to ID each individual, I could easily plow through thousands an hour. A bad actor with this sort of tool could easily ruin lots of valuable data – a b…

What about a safety feature where only Unknown records can be bulk-identified, and only to Order level, for example. So you could easily identify a whole batch of Flowering Plants, or Mammals, but nothing lower than Order (or Class if that’s safer). That would really help users to clear up the Unkn…

Also just a note that this has also been requested on a separate thread, but with only one note so far: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/batch-add-the-same-id-to-multiple-observations/2549

Also a useful and safe way that a bulk identification tool could help is to select a whole bunch of observations and mark them as Captive/Cultivated. That would help to reduce the number of observations to sift through when trying to ID wild plants/animals.

[image] row_nature: What about a safety feature where only Unknown records can be bulk-identified, and only to Order level , for example. So you could easily identify a whole batch of Flowering Plants, or Mammals, but nothing lower than Order (or Class if that’s safer). That would really help u…

I’d also like to support the idea of there being a bulk identifier that labels the Unknowns. The number of unknown observations is often watched and seen as a problem and a few people devote a lot of time labeling plant/insect/mushroom/arachnid/etc . Say that those people can still do kingdom filter…

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row_nature June 23, 2020, 4:31pm 31

Sorry if I sound like a broken record, but I keep seeing this thread getting a lot of attention (https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/amount-of-unknown-records-is-decreasing/8594/298), and I think the bulk-identification tool (with safety features) would make a huge difference to a lot of people, and be relatively easy to implement.

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