Good to hear more depth about why this is an issue.
I hadn’t considered all of your points before.
Is there a feature request for data to be added of how location names of generated?
If not, would be good to add. As you said, provenance would really help here.
In regard to Natalie’s comment about feeding back information directly to iNaturalist, I do think the onus is on iRecord to some extent there. They could choose to make it more of a 2 way street, but they developed it as a one way bridge…. iRecord just feels to me like a black box by and large…so we all pay the consequences of that.
I reached out to see if I could do a test myself and asked if they would give me access to their API but they didn’t respond.
I wonder if we could just scrape comments from iRecord and use iNat API to at least help get recorder feedback to observers a little more. I wasn’t sure of the ethics of this. But if done with the verifiers support, it would be ok I imagine. ..