Platform(s): Website 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…

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 t…

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…

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).

here’s one way to do it with the API: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/bulk-selection-of-observations-to-add-to-a-project/1747/73 . i could make an example of how to do it in a Python-based Jupyter Notebook that can be run from JupyterLite in your browser , if anyone’s interested. poll

Create a way to remove observations from a project en-masse

Feature Requests

jwidness November 14, 2025, 5:25pm 6

For another option, I feel like the universal metadata tool should be mentioned.

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Create a way to remove observations from a project en-masse

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