Based on the evidence, can the Community Taxon still be confirmed or improved? Yes (1) No, it’s as good as it can be (1) This needs to be better worded. Especially for Newbies. It needs to be clear that no taxon specialist can do better. Which is a huge statement. I am very slowly working thru …

I find the box useful but I rarely check the box because I am never sure that an ID cannot be improved upon. Even the blurriest photos can be useful to an expert, and my own study species that I once thought could only be distinguished by dissection I am now finding can often be told apart by behav…

The “good as it can be” box is incredibly useful in cases where the OP made an incorrect original ID and then a bunch of inexperienced users piled on to agree with it (as happens a lot with “duress” student project observations). If an identifier adds the correct ID with, say, six incorrect IDs to o…

I sometimes use it. If the photo is blurred, or anyway diagnostic characters are not visible, there is nothing that can be done past a certain level. I consider it a service to my future colleagues so they don’t waste time.

I don’t really understand what to do with the observations in this project. I looked at the good-as-it-can-be observations from the coast of Ecuador. There aren’t many, and only one that I could id. It is the only observation ever posted by that person and consists of three photos, each of a diff…

That is one for the new DQA (at the bottom of the list) - Not a Single Subject. Which is automatically Casual, and out of the Needs ID queue. If the observer ever returns they can resolve the problem. That is not a a case for yes/no Can Be Improved (but the current Yes and No cancel each other ou…

[image] DianaStuder: But those obs are few among many that miss the point. There’s a ton of turtle photos that can’t really be ID’d beyond subfamily too. And a lot of Plestidon photos that can’t get further than genus due to similarity of juveniles where species overlap. I do think that the …

As an identifier, I really disagree with clicking ‘good as can be’ except for the most blurry photos. I can say that I can’t identify it today but to say that no one else could identify now and now one ever will is too great a leap. Identifiers learn more all the time. Half the species I can iden…

I wholeheartedly agree! There are many mushroom obs held back by this. I’m trying to go through them but without a way to filter out DQA markings they’re found by chance.* Some just need a “yes” tick to hit RG, others are in the Casual purgatory. *if there’s a way to find this in the API search pa…

Nothing to be done - unless the observer returns. There are other threads and discussion about that.

Good as can be - is it?

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papernautilus March 15, 2025, 2:36pm 25

Ok, that is a good solution in this case. None of the three species is anything to write home about. But what if one had been something noteworthy? What if it was a Wow, that’s a first!

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Good as can be - is it?

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