While cleaning millipede records, I realized that several European taxa are used worldwide wrongly for identification. I could remove several taxa of them, and it seems they are now less proposed as an ID and chosen by non-specialists. However, this is quite an exhausting process because all the cor…

I’d prefer to see a mechanism allowing users to vote down a CV suggested taxon in a chosen area. My group, the fungi, have an increasing number of regionally cryptic species which cannot be reliably identified by photos alone. Sure, if there is adequate micro-data or even better a sequence, then the…

[image] egordon88: Admittedly, the CV system will continue to inspire naive users to make bold identifications without any clue that the suggestion is surely erroneous. Fighting the CV is incredibly frustrating. I know I had moments this past summer when I felt like I was trying to bail out a…

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identifriday-is-the-happiest-day-of-the-week/26908 We have 1.4K comments on this thread. Identifiers with goodwill are looking for somewhere / someone to help. A journal post with info …

as someone who has been recruited by an expert specialist to help with a large pool of unidentified / mis-IDed observations – teaching even one or two others about your favourite taxon will help a lot. 1100 is a lot of work for one person, but 300 is manageable. and then those students can go on to …

Thank you for your comments. However, I would like to return to the actual topic of my post. I wanted to bring automatisms up for discussion to be able to correct mass incorrect determinations easily and quickly. Of course, such incorrect determinations can also be corrected manually with great e…

Welcome to the forum! I think most folks went in the direction of suggesting correcting misidentified observations with correct IDs because: This is the basic process of iNat itself Correcting misIDs in situations like this (with similar numbers of IDs required or more) has been done before w…

“Only 5 experts…” Now. Only 5 now. More will come. And an aspect of this site that kind of gets missed by many people is that you can create new experts on the site. This is something that other citizen science sites don’t allow for. I’m actually in that category: I learned Bombus, by identify…

I brought up fixing this ID problem one observation at a time because (1) I’m sure iNaturalist won’t create an automated fix no matter how good that idea might be and (2) I don’t actually want one. Why not? If you’re automatically correcting ID’s of species A at location X because A doesn’t live t…

[image] cthawley: Staff have generally rejected ideas of machine-generated/mass IDs outside of the CV implementation Yes, I meant to mention this. The fastest way to add IDs is the agree button in the Identity portal. Everything else still requires manual input and seems unlikely to change. I…

I apologize for another off-topic reply, but I want to respond to this: [image] doppelhans: However, this is quite an exhausting process because all the corrected IDs need to be confirmed by two or more secondary identifications by other experts. … It is not only done that one expert looks th…

Correcting of widely misused taxa by an automatic process

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Correcting of widely misused taxa by an automatic process

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