# Erroneously maverick id

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/erroneously-maverick-id/80435>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [June 21, 2026, 9:25am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/erroneously-maverick-id/80435 "2026-06-21T09:25:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![aaravmishra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/aaravmishra/32/33901_2.png) [@aaravmishra](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/aaravmishra)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 9:25am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/erroneously-maverick-id/80435/1 "2026-06-21T09:25:30Z")

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**URL relevant to this bug report:** [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/192885655](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/192885655)

I noticed that this observation, linked above lists my id as a maverick. However, the 3 current ids on the observation are not conflicting, and are the family which the species I suggested belongs to. It is the current observation taxon and does not conflict with the other ids. Why is it listed as a maverick???

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**Author:** ![aaravmishra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/aaravmishra/32/33901_2.png) [@aaravmishra](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/aaravmishra)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 10:14am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/erroneously-maverick-id/80435/3 "2026-06-21T10:14:38Z")

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It’s been months, those identifiers have not made their choice, whether to agree or not. I do not mind maverick, but is is a bug. I am taking ahead an id (“leading” should be there, as far as my knowledge of the algorithm goes)

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**Author:** ![aaravmishra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/aaravmishra/32/33901_2.png) [@aaravmishra](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/aaravmishra)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 10:20am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/erroneously-maverick-id/80435/5 "2026-06-21T10:20:15Z")

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> [@DianaStuder](#):
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> If you can @mention a competent identifier

I am one of the few identifiers in my group who has done so much digging. Otherwise my first id list would not have toppled over 700 species in less than an year. My aim is before one year of my “increased” activity (I were suspended due to the age limit until September 29th, 2025), the lists combined should cross 1,000. Big goal, but looks feasible.

> [@DianaStuder](#):
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> (not me for this taxon)

of course not. nearly got me laughing.

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**Author:** ![cthawley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/cthawley/32/1445_2.png) [@cthawley](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/cthawley)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 11:06am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/erroneously-maverick-id/80435/6 "2026-06-21T11:06:53Z")

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The ID shows as leading now. If a bug, likely just one fixed by reindexing, so I’m marking as solved.