Sometimes I find comments which do not seem to make sense in the context, or notes on identifications like “disagrees …” without a previous id. Now that there’s a comment of mine in such a place, I found out that it is possible to fully delete one’s identification - not just to withdraw it. Conseque…

You read what I wrote not hte way I wrote it. I said leaving incorrect ids is not the “best way”. Having a long thread of withdrawns doesn’t help you understand anything other than someone’s confusion. What connection it has with “less experienced members being afraid”? Deleting ids doesn’t make oth…

My example is observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/53310075 I guess that the first id was by the observer himself. It was not “Elimaea leeuwenii” which is mentioned in the “Notes” section, as that species is not in our database (yet). It was some species which we have observations f…

You could just add another comment. If you look at the .json, it may even tell you what the previous ID was, provided it was the observer who made it.

[image] bernhard_hiller: I guess that the first id was by the observer himself. It was not “Elimaea leeuwenii” If there were other IDs than the observer’s before your comment that were deleted, I can’t tell that, but per the json, the observer guessed “Elimaea leeuwenii”. [Screenshot_202007…

I’ve deleted a few ID’s and will most likely continue to do so but hopefully not very often. I deleted them because the info I presented was not how I wanted to present it. I redid them after, as I wanted them to be presented. 98% of them were right away before I had a response of any kind. One …

[image] Star3: I’ve occasionally deleted IDs that I never intended to make at all That’s the only time I use delete also – for simple clerical errors like hitting the wrong button, mis-typing a name, or hitting Agree before fully comprehending the name I was agreeing to. Otherwise, if it’s a…

You will get proficient. You will also see on other threads that people who have been on iNat for years, can still learn new ways to iNat.

[image] pssw: One was an ID from a friend’s camera (I didn’t have mine) and it had no time stamp so was deemed casual which I didn’t want. That sounds more like deleting an observation than an identification.

Ahhh,yes, you are right. My mistake in getting the two confused. Thanks.

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bernhard_hiller July 27, 2020, 7:13pm 22

That seems to be the appropriate use of the functionality.
On the taxon page, we have also a section of “similar species”, i.e.“commonly misidentified” species. How does deleting vs. withdrawing an id influence the data shown there?

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