Credit where credit is due. As far as i understand Gbif credits the first species level identifier on iNat (unless it is the observer itself) as the identifier of an observation. A not very hypothetical story: A regular iNat user figures out the species level identification of a iNat observation. …

It just doesn’t matter to me who is listed as the IDer on GBIF. Getting my name listed on GBIF isn’t why I identify (and I have worked with GBIF data enough to know that this seems to be how they add the IDer field). The situation presented above (a taxon being created and then IDed by someone who d…

Why does it matter who is cited as the identifier on GBIF?

darwin and wallace were fans of each others work. an implication that darwin took credit for wallace’s work suggests a lack of knowledge on the subject. this is off-topic, the thread title just rubs me the wrong way.

Well people spend hours and hours on computers and phones, playing, to get symbolic tokens. iNaturalist seems to exploit this behaviour by providing numbers and charts and honoring identifiers and observers… The question i am asking is whether it is ok for iNat curators, to use the difference in po…

Agreed, a better title would be Wallace and Groomit.

Just as a reminder, we are asked to assume that other users mean well, which describing this situation as [image] mreith: iNat curators, to use the difference in power to snatch a symbolic form of recognition from a regular user does not. Many iNat users, including curators, are likely tota…

Sometimes when I can tell that the person requesting the species isn’t very familiar with how iNat curation works (e.g. I see frustration in the comments that the species isn’t available, and they don’t know that they can request it) then I’ll add the ID and then withdraw it immediately. That makes …

Well the case i experienced was different. I had flagged a genus with the request to add several species for a geographical area. The moderator asked in the flag for the observations of these species, and i provided links to 6 observations in 3 species. The moderator than added the 3 species names a…

I think I found the flag and discussion that you’re referring to, but even if I have the wrong one, the points below should still be valid. iNat guidance on requests for new taxa does recommend that curators add taxa that are requested individually (rather than a large batch) and only where there a…

Darwin and Wallace on iNat

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I suppose that’s a valid point, although I doubt many people even know that GFIB provides such credit.

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Darwin and Wallace on iNat

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