Description of need: Projects that are not filtered by specific taxa and may not be adequately filtered by observation fields (due to people lying and misusing them for example) become cluttered by observations that are irrelevant to their theme and scope. See some observations in the Arthropod Faces project, ex. [example removed by staff, observations should not be called out negatively].
Feature request details: I would like to see a page structured similarly to the identification page in which multiple observations can be selected (perhaps with a checkbox similar to the “mark as reviewed” box) and removed from the project. Such a feature could even be built directly into the Identify page and appear when you access it via Curator Tools>Identify Observations.
iNat has never had a tool that allowed a traditional project admin/manger/curator to add or remove observations by other users in bulk, and I’ll say it’s unlikely we’ll make one for this use case but I approved this request for discussion.
(I also removed a link to an obseration in the OP. I know there was no malicious intent, but we don’t want people calling out specific observations or people in a negative fashion).
I’d find this useful. There are a couple of traditional projects I run where, on multiple occasions, a (well-meaning) user has added hundreds of their observations to the project that were not suitable at all for the project’s scope. They then didn’t respond to multiple attempts to contact them, and I had to manually remove hundreds of observations one by one.
Suggestion: make it possible to add/remove observations to/from projects en-masse with the API https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/project_observations/ (make it possible to provide several IDs in the field observation_id in the request payload or several record IDs in the DELETE request).