I recently came across a case where a taxon photo was wrong for the species. When I traced the source, the photo had come in from Flickr, not an iNat observation. Is this something that can still happen, or is it a carry-over from older arrangements? I will edit the taxon photos to be sure they reflect the correct species, but I’m puzzled that this can happen.
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and on earlier threads, some iNatters have photos from Flickr as taxon pictures. Given a choice, I prefer a taxon picture to be part of an iNat obs - which keeps the ID active if it changes.
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A photo from an incorrectly identified observation will continue to appear as the taxon photo even if the observation is reidentified as something else; while the fact that the photo is linked to an observation can help with recognizing that a taxon photo is incorrect, it still has to be removed manually.
I was disappointed with this case, because the Flickr record expresses uncertainty about the ID, but someone has made this the taxon photo anyway. It is a reasonably common plant, so other options should have been available when this was done.
iNat was initially seeded with Flickr photos ? And some need editing / replacing - in the intervening years those Flickr photos may have become valid iNat obs so only the link needs to change - but that would be for the observer to resolve.