I’m wondering if there is any consensus on what to do for marking observations of organisms that were wild but have clearly been moved from their original location prior to taking the picture. (I’m not talking about transplanting plants or relocating animals, but more about collections and stuff hel…

It seems like there isn’t a standard rule for these. I think the following approach minimizes confusion for the (probably new) user: For things that were at least plausibly sampled from “the wild”, mark the date and location inaccurate in the DQA and include this boilerplate text: "Thank you for …

Right, but on some (though not all) of the closed ones you can get an idea of the prevailing thoughts, which is what you asked for. [image] annkatrinrose: if there is any consensus But a new topic is always welcome, since the older ones (especially the closed, older ones) are not always easy…

Yes, not easy to find, plus often so long it takes hours to read through them in search for specific info. I just don’t have the patience to hunt through every thread to find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I’ve sometimes had better luck using regular internet search engines than searching th…

Those or other topics definitely discussed how you decide on what is captive and what is not. We can’tt answer your questions, because it’s all is circumstantial and depends on factors like what time and date is added by user.

I struggle with the insistence that a pinned beetle is ‘alive’ because - it was when I caught it. What I see is very dead, and pinned. But the usual response to your query is DQA inaccurate.

marina_gorbunovaorbunova-Yolkina: depends on factors like what time and date is added by user I specified that above: “location is marked as inside a building/lab with the date when the picture was taken, not when the collection was made.”

Then most likely it wasn’t even collected by a user, and just a part of school/university ollection, that they had as a test to id, but post to iNat, sometimes it’s a valid observation and you just need to tell the user to change the data, but with school kids, go straight to DQA.

They are collected by the students. Here’s an example: Let’s say the mycology class goes on a field trip taking a van out to a field site in a neighboring county. The students collect a bunch of mushrooms, come back to the lab and stick them in the drying oven. One week later, they key out their dri…

Both fit, I know @tiwane said that captive is the right way, I personally go with the wrong date and time.

I would say inaccurate date/location, since they’re not really pets or garden pets in the sense of being “captive” that way.

Here’s my breakdown of it: Organism momentarily “captive” in hand or jar, but appears to be near where it was likely found – mark wild. Organism photographed in school lab, and time/place indicates the lab - captive Organism photographed in lab, but time/place indicating a collection site, not th…

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To be far, the definition tiwane gave for Dead included dying within an hour or two. So unless that pinned beetle was kept alive for quite some time between capture and pinning, it should probably still be marked dead.

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