# How to properly do Annotations? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** question\ **Created:** [August 14, 2021, 3:38am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-properly-do-annotations/25582 "2021-08-14T03:38:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![diegoalmendras](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/diegoalmendras/32/1473_2.png) [@diegoalmendras](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/diegoalmendras)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2021, 3:38am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-properly-do-annotations/25582/1 "2021-08-14T03:38:33Z")
Not sure how to explain this in English, but a Observation have an incorrect Annotation. For examples is an egg case, but observer added Juvenile, and also, this observer disagree with his annotation. I know Agree and Disagree can move to the conversation, but how I do the correct anotation of this observation, or is not possible at all? Is there a way to asses this issue? I was alerted to this, as I tried to add “egg”, but it was not possible. He was trying to add this observation to a personal project of chondrichthyan eggs. ---
**Author:** ![thebeachcomber](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/thebeachcomber/32/12748_2.png) [@thebeachcomber](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/thebeachcomber)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2021, 3:50am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-properly-do-annotations/25582/2 "2021-08-14T03:50:21Z")
Annotations can only be changed by the observer; best thing to do is leave a comment on the observation explaining the situation and asking them to fix it. ---
**Author:** ![diegoalmendras](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/diegoalmendras/32/1473_2.png) [@diegoalmendras](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/diegoalmendras)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2021, 3:57am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-properly-do-annotations/25582/3 "2021-08-14T03:57:01Z")
Apparently he is not online anymore :( ---
**Author:** ![gs5](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/gs5/32/38611_2.png) [@gs5](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/gs5)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2021, 6:24am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-properly-do-annotations/25582/4 "2021-08-14T06:24:40Z")
You can personally message him/her on iNaturalist message or from the email id on their profile and hope they will reply :) ---
**Author:** ![mamestraconfigurata](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/mamestraconfigurata/32/10149_2.png) [@mamestraconfigurata](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/mamestraconfigurata)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 12:28am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-properly-do-annotations/25582/5 "2021-08-15T00:28:52Z")
I don’t know what group you are trying to apply this to, but sometimes the finer annotations are not available. I also find it a little frustrating when there are more than one life stage involved (adult moth and eggs). EDIT (a day later) Or when there are a mating pair. There is only one box for sex. ---
**Author:** ![gs5](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/gs5/32/38611_2.png) [@gs5](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/gs5)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 6:33am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-properly-do-annotations/25582/6 "2021-08-16T06:33:24Z")
@mamestraconfigurata This is something we can convey to the developers. I am part of a project where they collect mating observations and a way to identify sexes will definitely help ([https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/mating-behaviour](https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/mating-behaviour)). Like you have mentioned, I recently observed a female moth laying bunch of eggs, so I had duplicated the observation one for the female and one for the eggs. There could also be an additional box put under sexes with male/female as both together (mating/courtship). Also how about hermaphrodites animals and plants with dimorphism. ---
**Author:** ![mamestraconfigurata](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/mamestraconfigurata/32/10149_2.png) [@mamestraconfigurata](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/mamestraconfigurata)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 1:02pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-properly-do-annotations/25582/7 "2021-08-16T13:02:40Z")
You could try [help@inaturalist.org](mailto:help@inaturalist.org) or post a request in the Features Request heading on this forum. Both of those usually get a prompt response. ---
**Author:** ![diegoalmendras](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/diegoalmendras/32/1473_2.png) [@diegoalmendras](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/diegoalmendras)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-properly-do-annotations/25582/8 "2021-08-17T19:28:53Z")
I tried to add the Egg annotation to added it in this project [https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/huevos-de-rayas-tiburones-y-quimeras-del-pacifico-sur](https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/huevos-de-rayas-tiburones-y-quimeras-del-pacifico-sur) (which only admitds elasmobranch eggs). It would be less cumbersome be able to change it instead ask the observer to fix it. ---
**Author:** ![thebeachcomber](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/thebeachcomber/32/12748_2.png) [@thebeachcomber](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/thebeachcomber)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-properly-do-annotations/25582/9 "2021-08-17T22:44:39Z")
[please don’t post links to other observations in this context, I removed it] ---
**Author:** ![marina\_gorbunova](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/marina_gorbunova/32/31454_2.png) [@marina\_gorbunova](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/marina_gorbunova)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 10:54pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-properly-do-annotations/25582/10 "2021-08-17T22:54:18Z")
There’re tons of observations fields to put for mating, etc., annotations won’t change the way to capture both male and female as observation is suited for one specimen, dupliating it is a good way to capture that! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2021, 10:54pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-properly-do-annotations/25582/11 "2021-10-16T22:54:20Z")
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