A common problem is that a new user submits multiple photos of the same organism as separate observations. Perhaps I am missing it, but it would be great to have a FAQ (and copy-and-paste-able link) that discusses how to add multiple photos to one observation and how to delete/combine observations after this mistake has been made?
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Here’s the how-to
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-turn-multiple-observations-into-a-single-observation/9838
Also note:
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Cool, thanks! Is there any reason why we can’t put that on the FAQ page as well? It is certainly seems to be a common issue that deserves a place there?
I don’t know. It’s up to the site admins to decide what goes into the FAQ. The Getting Started Guide does mention “Help […] by including multiple photos” and other relevant explanations:
https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/getting+started
Actually there’s a similar tutorial on the Video Tutorials page of the help pages:
https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/video+tutorials
Perhaps they could add a link to the forum tutorials there?
Not necessarily, although FAQs about policy should be created by staff and new FAQs should be added judiciously. @kschnei is a curator, and he could edit the FAQ page. I think it’d be best to just link to the tutorial here, though, rather than go through the rigamarole of creating it on the FAQ wiki, which is not easy.
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