… this worries me a bit, @ tiwane. The reason is that I spend a lot of time to add missing moth species pictures from old copyright-free textbooks from http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org to iNaturalist. They are not on Flickr, not on Wikipedia. That means, I will create an “observation” without date or location on my iNat account for it. There seems to be no other way to get those pictures onto an iNat taxon page. After use, I “downgrade” my own “observations” to a more general term, like “Lepidoptera” because I do not want all these species to get into taxon statistics or my own life list. This work has taken up most of my time in the last 2-3 years.
Since August 2021, I have uploaded about 13,400 such pictures! Each of them for a moth taxon page which didn’t have pictures on its cover yet. My activity is ongoing. It was a lot of work to implement the best actual worldwide species checklist, find the pictures, allocate them to modern taxonomy, crop, edit and upload them to the correct taxon page. At the same time, I also had a look at geographical distribution and synonyms, updating it if necessary. You can find all of the pictures here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?order=asc&place_id=any&q=for%20species%20page%20only&subview=table&user_id=amzamz&verifiable=any
(note that the species numbers are incorrect, because I reset batches to family or higher once every few months only)
If I understand it correctly, your new algorithm would annihilate my work within a second!
Please do not have them removed, because they are helpful, particularly for tropcal America, tropical Asia, tropical Africa and for Central Asia. They will show up in country checklists with those pictures, or when you use the “compare” button within an observation together with “checklist” and a geographical area. Thank you for understanding.