Is there an observation field in use to flag observations with drawings/sketches?

I’m not sure where this came up previously (i was influenced by something somewhere!), but I’ve used a vote for “no evidence of organism” in the DQA of obs. I also explain / link in comments to: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/help#observations8 which clearly states (unless I’m way off) that evidence doesn’t include sketches or illustrations. I’d love to hear if this is correct or if I should adjust my behavior…

this in particular is the wording I’m referring to: “Your observation photos represent evidence of your own experience, not just illustrations of something like what you saw.” I see no distinction between a blurry photo that the community can’t agree on IDs for versus a sketch of a titmouse that none of us can verify. Am I missing something or misunderstanding the issue being raised?

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