This idea is spawned from some discussion in a prior thread. Some identifiers like to focus on labeling the records that do not have any id’s yet, and some of those like to do so in a more focused way. If you could use assistance in getting a particular subset of Unknown records labeled with higher…

Thanks! I’ll try to keep that in mind. I usually just ID as Fungi or possibly Basidiomycota if it looks like a proper mushroom.

[image] annkatrinrose: That would be nice in general and I wished iNat had more iconic plant taxa to go along with it (e.g. flowering plants, non-flowering seed plants, seedless vascular plants, non-vascular plants). This has been discussed, but the conclusion is that most people do not under…

Yeah, I suspected that was the case and common names often don’t help at all. It’s hard enough for botany students to figure our why club mosses and spike mosses are not actually mosses, and why running cedar and ground pine are not actually gymnosperms. Throw in some Spanish moss (flowering plant) …

[image] annkatrinrose: That would be nice in general and I wished iNat had more iconic plant taxa to go along with it (e.g. flowering plants, non-flowering seed plants, seedless vascular plants, non-vascular plants). There are 8 iconic taxa for animals, but only the one huge catch-all Plantae. B…

Sorry, can’t read your whole post right now, just a quick skim. I wanted to let you know that I wasn’t asking you to mark things as casual. I had gotten a notification that you had added an ID of flowering plants to an obs that I had marked as casual previously (it was a photo of an entryway into a …

Thanks for clarifying. I will continue doing what I was doing.

I like this idea. This is probably the wrong time for me to start volunteering for it, as I’ve got a pile of uploads to do from my last trip, more summer trips scheduled and the identifying I try to keep under control (UK needs id users newer than 2 weeks) is getting away from me a little bit. But i…

If individuals are going to go this route, there should be some degree of thought when making a general identification. I saw a suggestion made yesterday for “flowering plants” that clearly had a snake in the picture. As an identifier, my first inclination would be to believe the submitter intende…

[image] joshuasoileau: I saw a suggestion made yesterday for “flowering plants” that clearly had a snake in the picture. That was a mistake I made. It was an Unknown observation, which had a plant in it, and the snake looked like a crack in the surface to me when I first saw it. I changed my …

[image] joshuasoileau: Identifications should also not override previous IDs. If the intent is to clean up all of the “unknown species” and make it easier for others to search them, then identifications should be restricted to those. Please cite anything on iNaturalist that calls for this.

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annkatrinrose July 13, 2021, 11:37am 39

I couldn’t find one, so I made one here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/split-plantae-into-several-iconic-taxa/24698

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