Dear Team, (sorry for my english mistakes) first of all congratulations for the idea and implementation of inaturalist. I would like to point to a very frequent problem which should be avoided. There are nearly all vascular plant reports shown as “organism is wild”, but many of them show plants i…

Most of the plants and other organisms that are posted here are wild, so having them marked wild automatically is good. We can mark them not wild when we find not-wild observations. We would do that more consistently if unidentified not-wild observations were kept as “needs ID” so we could easily …

It is worth noting that observations will be automatically marked captive/cultivated if more than 80% (I think that’s right…) of that species locally are marked captive/cultivated. But yes, please do click the button when you come across them!

All observers should mark only their own observations. Nobody else corrects these afterwards. (okay, I did it some hundred times, but I am tired of this and cant do it for tenthousands of observers all around the world). This is a big mistake on the site.

Well, you’re not forced to do it, but we all do it, more than hundreds of times, start with one small region and go outwards, it’s easier to do, teaches the system which genera are more likely to be planted, teaches observers to mark their cultivated plants, and you can see results on the map.

I don’t usually mark an observation of a cultivated plant as “not wild” until it has been IDed. Lots of new users take photos of garden plants because that is what is around them. If the observations are marked immediately as cultivated they will never be seen to be IDed. That will not encourage the…

I mark observations as captured/cultivated all the time as I go along IDing Unknowns. Certainly, it would be desirable if the original posters did that, but many simply do not know it is even a thing. So many records are contributed by new users, who may not even know they should enter a starting I…

[image] Vireya: I don’t usually mark an observation of a cultivated plant as “not wild” until it has been IDed. All cultivate plants and captive animals should be marked “not wild” during upload. Please do not wait for an ID. As Marina said: marina_gorbunovaorbunova-Yolkina: iNat is mai…

[image] uncletom2: This way we get a totally wrong chorological map of the species. This is, because the users dont have to activate the “organism is wild” field actively, but this is given by the the system automatically. The problem is that the reverse causes the same issue. Many people wi…

Not if users have to choose obligatory between “organism is wild” and “capive/cultivated”. This is my suggestion.

Dont show "organism is wild" automatically please

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marina_gorbunova January 8, 2023, 7:32pm 2

You can mark all the cultivated plants you met in your searches, iNat is mainly about wild things, so having to mark thousands of records as wild would be too much for observers.

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Dont show "organism is wild" automatically please

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