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 …

If the photo is something that obviously doesn’t come from that location (like seaweed on a lab bench and location marked as an inland university), then I see no issue with marking the location incorrect. I try to give people the benefit of the doubt – if it was something like a dandelion in a cup t…

not a direct response to the question, but sometimes commenting that the location (and date) should be of when the organism was wild fixes the problem. it just doesn’t usually occur to people that aren’t familiar with inaturalist (such as students told to make an account for an assignment) but a lot…

It’s tricky if the specimen was most likely taken in the school grounds on the day. If it’s from a field trip then the data as you’ve described it is inaccurate and should be marked as such. If there’s any way you can identify the educator in charge and contact them that’s ideal I guess - otherwis…

[image] annkatrinrose: I did search and found mostly unhelpful threads Let me assist you a bit, as @marina_gorbunova is correct in that there are many threads: Wild vs. Captive/Cultivated Gray Areas - General - iNaturalist Community Forum Research Grade Qualification - Organism is wild - Ye…

Well, yes, thanks for compiling them. I looked at them all and many are closed and only related tangentially. Out of the open threads, none of the scenarios in the captive vs. wild one match what I’m asking about (collected samples) and I didn’t want to hijack that one and change its topic. The one …

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.

DQA for specimens removed from the wild

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annkatrinrose March 26, 2023, 7:05pm 9

Yes, I’ve been commenting but in a lot of these cases I doubt there will be a follow-up since it’s pretty obvious the account was created for class and not used since.

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DQA for specimens removed from the wild

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