IDs which are not maverick showing as maverick

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URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/345011

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On the observation linked, two IDs are showing as maverick despite there only being two IDs that disagree with them (the disagreement is temporary; these IDs will no longer be disagreeing after a pending taxon change, but that does not seem relevant to whether the behavior is a bug). As you can see in the community ID breakdown in the screenshot, the IDs are not calculated to be disagreeing. I have checked and uncheck ‘cannot be improved’ and voted on DQA flags to re-index the observation, to no effect. Screenshotted in case new IDs are added that fix the issue.

seems similar to https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/incomplete-taxon-swap-bug-creating-two-maverick-ids-and-no-agreeing-ids/4295.

if you just care about the data, you could just force a reindex by making any change, and see if that resolves the particular observation.

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I have tried re-indexing multiple times and it has had no affect.

I added an ID and deleted it, no maverick now.

The misplaced mavericks seem to crop up around changes in taxonomy. Adding and deleting an ID has fixed it all the ones I’ve encountered, which is at least dozens. Just be aware that deleting an ID unfollows and unreviews the observation.

previously:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-is-a-maverick-id/49044

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Taxonomy orphans can take overnight to update.

I am not certain if this is what fixed it or not. Reviewing the screenshots, @bouteloua also changed their ID to reactivate their old ID after I screenshotted it, so it also could have been that that made it work (or maybe both had to happen).

I have manually re-indexed several hundred similar observations today, including at least one seemingly nearly identical situation that was fixed by the standard re-index procedure, I was just flagging that this one specifically because it was not fixed in the standard way and so I thought maybe it indicated some kind of larger bug in the indexer.

Any moves that would have affected this all happened a while ago (maybe a week before the city nature challenge taxonomy lock was put in place).

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It had mavericks when I loaded the page. I immediately agreed with an ID. The page reloaded to no mavericks. I deleted the ID, there were still no mavericks. The mavericks were gone within 5 seconds of me loading the page.

Not sure if I should report this as a new bug, since the last comment here was 9 months ago, but currently every item on my maverick IDs list

https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?user_id=dlevitis&category=maverick

is a correctly IDed frog that lacks disagreeing IDs. These are all Pseudacris regilla, but were IDed as P sierra before a taxon swap that occurred a year ago.

Here is one example:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/159575656

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Tested that one. You need to force a reindex (no idea WHY you need to, but, it works). Now it is all tidy.

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Made a github issue for this: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/4379

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I have something that’s not quite the same but likely related and might have the same root cause. See https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/147624091

I initially mis-ID’d this as a Herring Gull and withdrew that bad ID after various folks corrected me. It’s a Ring-Billed Gull.

However, when the Herring Gull split into European and American, iNaturalist added back my withdrawn ID though this time as an American Herring Gull.

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Here’s another case of the same thing, this one caused by the Cooper’s hawk genus rename rather than a taxon split:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/106275617

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