Flag or otherwise mark taxon photos whose CID doesn't match taxon

Came here to add this feature suggestion and (fortunately) discovered that it had already been proposed. It’s great that iNat has taxon photos, and I do understand that earlier in the project’s evolution there was a need to find photos for a whole lot of taxa when there weren’t yet a lot of well-curated RG observations. This resulted in taxon images being added based on observations whose community ID is now not a match. Similarly, a lot of images were added from Flickr (and to a lesser extent EOL and Wikimedia Commons).

It would be wrong to automatically purge any “misfit” images, but it would be great to highlight them. As suggested by @jeanphilippeb and @suecar, a red bounding box or exclamation mark would seem appropriate, maybe with a popup note along the lines of this:

Although this image was chosen to illustrate the species Eleustrine latifolia, the observation it was taken from currently has a community ID of Cobana campanulata. You may want to consider replacing this image with one from a Research Grade iNaturalist observation of Eleustrine latifolia.

Given that the need for off-domain image sources is now much reduced, I think it would also be appropriate to have a similar yellow warning for non-iNat sourced images:

This image was chosen from [Flickr/EOL/Wikimedia Commons] to illustrate the species Eleustrine latifolia. We can’t be sure whether the image creator applied the correct identification and you may want to consider replacing this image with one from a Research Grade iNaturalist observation of this species.

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