# Etiquette around Annotations and Observation Fields

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/etiquette-around-annotations-and-observation-fields/37374>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** observation-field, etiquette, annotations\
**Created:** [November 19, 2022, 12:17pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/etiquette-around-annotations-and-observation-fields/37374 "2022-11-19T12:17:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![tristanmcknight](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tristanmcknight/32/12490_2.png) [@tristanmcknight](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tristanmcknight)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 1:25am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/etiquette-around-annotations-and-observation-fields/37374/9 "2022-11-20T01:25:29Z")

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Something to keep in mind: if you’re adding annotations please be responsive if people end up tagging you to change them! There’s no way to “fix” an annotation if someone has entered it wrong (e.g., marked a photo showing a clear female as “male” or “cannot be determined”), we can only downvote. I wish community logic applied to those (here’s a relevant feature request: [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/apply-community-consensus-logic-to-annotations-in-the-same-way-as-for-ids/12075](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/apply-community-consensus-logic-to-annotations-in-the-same-way-as-for-ids/12075)), but so far it’s not the way iNat works.

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