I come across many situations like the following: observation at Magnoliopsida (dicots) because the first poster has put an ID of, say, Dahlia pinnata on an (obviously cultivated) garden rose and a second IDer has corrected to Rosa. I’ll add a supporting ID of Rosa, but then the question becomes, do…

Today I reviewed some 300 plant observations, and marked more than 50 as “not wild”. Hardly ever do I give an id for such observations (even if it does not yet have an id at all), but recently I learned that also cultivated plants with a “community id” might be used for training computer vision, so …

I always mark cultivated plants as « not wild », and I copy & paste the comment from https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/responses#notwild : Be sure to mark planted plants as “captive/cultivated” when you upload observations of them. You can also do so after uploading by clicking the “thumbs down” n…

I always try to mark things as “not wild” when I come across them. If the current community ID is blatantly wrong I’ll try to add a correction while I’m at it, but if it’s already been knocked back to a higher taxon level I won’t generally bother. I actually get a little irritated when I see multipl…

Well if the plant isn’t wild I mark it as ‘not wild’.

[image] t_e_d: I copy & paste the comment I recommend using a text expander rather than copying and pasting, it’ll save you a lot of time. See Use a text expander browser extension to quickly enter frequently-used text

[image] jonsense: I’ve just punted the marking of this plant as ‘not wild’ to someone else when I could have easily done it myself. Not if you keep up with your notifications.

I’m personally pretty conservative when it comes to when I mark someone else’s stuff as captive. When I first started on iNat, I was frustrated by annotators coming along and marking my stuff captive when it wasn’t captive, and I guess that’s sort of tainted my view of the situation. At the time, as…

[image] paul_dennehy: At the very least, I hope anyone adding a captive vote leaves a comment so the observer knows what’s been done and can promptly counter-vote if necessary. No, I don’t. As an identifier I can only work with the info available to me. If the observer has not spelt out for u…

I sometimes mark garden plants as casual but there are just too many to do it consistently (yes, University College Dublin, I’m looking at you, along with all your recent photos of bike parks, road junctions and litter bins). I don’t give the observer an explanation. They can work it out, or they co…

Yes, nowadays I definitely make a note explaining the habitat (and make sure to have an ‘establishing shot’ of that plant in that habitat) when I make an observation for any plant that is more often cultivated that not in my area, especially in those very few cases in which I’ve actively voted again…

How often do you mark plants as ‘Not Wild’ when IDing?

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jasonhernandez74 September 26, 2024, 8:52pm 18

Not if you keep up with your notifications.

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How often do you mark plants as ‘Not Wild’ when IDing?

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