Hello, I am currently managing a project collecting mammalia observations in Luxembourg: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/mammalia-luxembourg I wold like to convert it to a collection project to not need to add every observation manually. However I want to exclude all “non-wild” observations …

If you untick the box for “Casual” observations in your project, that should work, I think?

One way to do it is to remove the “Must be wild” rule from your current project and, once you have converted to a collection project, allow only Verifiable and Research Grade observations. A verifiable observation has a date, location, media evidence, and is not marked captive/cultivated. So this wo…

I suspect this may intentionally be an old style project as it states it is submitting data to a government agency, which likely means they want any obscured locations.

@cmcheatle yes so far it is intentionally a “old style” project, mainly because we wanted to also include “casual” observations. We rarely have any obscured locations however. @charlie I was talking about thinks that are by default “wild”, not observations that are marked as wild. With the normal s…

I’m also experiencing the same issue. I manage a small project that is focused on documenting the wildlife in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. The National Aquarium is within the project boundaries so I’d like to exclude the captive observations people make of the animals in the building. I’d imagine na…

Update. I found a different solution. Looking more closely at the observations made of species within the aquarium, it was only a small handful of users that uploaded them. I set up an exclusion rule for those specific usernames (after making sure they hadn’t made observation of wild animals as w…

@paul_luap So would these hypothetical settings work for you, then? [image]

yes @tiwane this would be exactly what I am looking fir. The “exclude captive/cultivated” is what I’m missing sofar.

OK, I’ll see if this is something we can do.

Exclude "captive/cultivated" from a project

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paul_luap July 18, 2019, 11:39am 9

Hey, thanks for the advice. Unfortunately I do not think this is a good solution for me excluding specific users. But I may look into it and see if it is maybe possible to exclude certain species (cats and dogs).

thanks for the advice

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Exclude "captive/cultivated" from a project

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