Did a bug associated with the taxon change cause this observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/111324 to become “casual?” I can’t find any reason for it not to be Research Grade.

Certainly not since I’ve been on the site, which is more than a few years. Maybe they saw cases where the user opted-out and had a different ID to community ID, which would have prevented research grade. But most users that use opt-out are happy to be corrected or “opt in” for that observation, so t…

I’m pretty sure it was a thing too… around 3-4 years ago… I noticed it was not the case recently, and wondered if there was a change or maybe I just assumed it to be the case! Memory plays tricks…

it looks like the observation in the original post got switched to the new taxon, even though it’s still an opt-out case. did someone do something to fix it? i ask because i came across a case for a different species, and i’m wondering who i should direct this to for a fix, if a fix is appropriate …

I’ll file a bug report. I know this was happening with Diplacus aurantiacus a little while ago. Monkeyflower taxonomy on iNat went through a bunch of revisions fairly recently and I think that might have gummed something up. [image] ericwilliams: My understanding is that if you opt-out of commu…

if it helps, i noticed that in the observation that i noted above, when i went in and checked the observation is wild :+1:, that observation went from Needs ID to Casual, and when i unchecked the :+1:, the observation stayed in Casual. i’m guessing this is because this observation that i noted has t…

If the observer opts out, and their ID differs from CID, then it won’t be able to get to RG. If their ID matches CID, then it can.

There are still around 100ish of these that need to be reindexed so that they turn from Casual to Needs ID/Research Grade: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?captive=false&photos&place_id=97394,97393&quality_grade=casual&subview=table&taxon_id=470643&verifiable=any&d1=1900-01-01

Done. One observation is still casual because of a DQA.

[image] silversea_starsong: The refresh is simply ticking something in data quality and unticking it, or changing the ID With a large volume of refreshes, the tick/untick method is less convenient, and as I find these I’ve gone to using letters from the keyboard shortcuts: -Typing 2 F’s will…

There’s more than 100 of these which are just mine, I suspect the final total is way higher? Although recently I’ve been getting “unknown” pings on some obs which were clearly related to this, maybe people favouriting and then unfavouriting my obs to reset them.

"Casual" due to taxon change when opting out of community ID

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bouteloua January 26, 2020, 3:42am 24

The link I was referring to was for Erythranthe guttata. Tony had started a wiki topic for other taxon change errors if you want to add to it: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/delays-failures-with-taxon-changes-wiki/4388

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"Casual" due to taxon change when opting out of community ID

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