Hi, I stumbled upon this strange set of observations; all from a single user, supposedly spread around the far reaches of a disputed part of highland rainforest between south Suriname and Guyana: It is already extremely hard to believe that someone made such a journey covering such a vast surface …

Welcome to the iNat Forum! Because the Forum isn’t a place to call out other users specifically, I’ve deleted links in the post above to make it more general (see the Forum Guidelines which note “The forum is not a place to call out individual users or post links to examples of bad iNat behavior. P…

Send an email to help@inaturalist.org with as much information as possible to help staff investigate the issue and do any batch actions that would be faster than leaving it to an individual end-user to fix or flag, especially given the sheer number of observations with incorrect locations.

The best way to start in these cases is to leave a comment on one or more of the observations asking the observer to check the location, as this could be an honest mistake. For example, I have seen sets of observations clearly taken in California that were mapped off the coast of North Korea becaus…

Apologies, was not aware of that. I left a comment on one of his sightings, and flagged another with a link that includes the whole bunch of sightings.

[image] jvogels: I know i can manually flag the location as incorrect, but doing this for a total of 227 observations is tedious. I don’t know what interface you usually use to look at observations, but in case you aren’t aware of this, I want to point out a method that may reduce the tedious…

[image] jvogels: many are research grade by ID I would use DQA for location inaccurate for those. Your single vote can easily be countered, but it makes the obs Casual. If you get a reply to your comment, and they change their location - then you can delete your DQA vote. Since we don’t get …

How to deal with many observations on clearly made up locations?

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How to deal with many observations on clearly made up locations?

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