i found out through one observation that a user has been voting bird bones as “Based on the evidence, can the Community Taxon still be confirmed or improved? No, it’s as good as it can be” to turn them from “needs id” to “casual” even if the bones could still potentially be improved if someone has t…

lol i do like how no one replied here but i got replies on the observation. thanks for helping! :)

Im kind of torn here. While i agree in this case it likely could go better than birds, for the DQA section to be meaningful, it needs to be acceptable for people to use to honestly express their opinion on the evidence. Other folks are equally able to express a differing view. It is important to re…

The observation now says “Needs ID”, not “Casual” - and I see votes for “Yes” the taxon can be improved - so it looks like those overrode the one who said “No.”

[image] cmcheatle: It is unfortunate no notifications are sent when the status is changed by a vote. For example only by accident did I discover a user had voted the date was inaccurate on several of my records because I remove the time of day and only leave the date. well, that’s definitely …

My understanding was that being alerted to ppl changing DQA on an obs is in the pipeline to come with the upgraded notification system. But where this was discussed I can’t remember, would have to do a trawl.

[image] charlie: it would be great to be able to search for ones own observations where data quality assessments were tagged Conversely, I would like to search for the times where I flagged something of someone else’s in a given way. Just in case I made a mistake or misclick, revised my think…

From @tiwane in the Notification topic’s leading post: We can’t guarantee anything, but here are a few features that are already on our radar: A way to find old notifications, particularly mentions. Get notified when a Data Quality Assessment changes the data quality grade of your observation. (…

this will be excellent. It would be nice to find old ones too though. I wanted to check if that person tagged any of mine ans wrong time for not including the exact time, too. ( as @bouteloua noted there are a lot of reasons not to do so and in terms of data quality it has little bearing on anything…

[image] jill_reid-aka-abhaya-va: The observation now says “Needs ID”, not “Casual” - and I see votes for “Yes” the taxon can be improved - so it looks like those overrode the one who said “No.” The unintended consequence of getting five votes for “Yes” is that now, even if the observation get…

Is this an appropriate assessment?

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Why does "Based on the evidence, can the Community Taxon still be confirmed or improved?" exist on the Data Quality Assessment? General question	25	724	January 2, 2025
Notifications for Data Quality Changes General	10	812	May 27, 2023
Should DQA votes on Community Taxon which result in a valid observation becoming casual be flagged? General question	8	141	November 22, 2025
Is it okay to use the Data Quality checkboxes to return an observation to Needs ID status? General question , guidelines	11	352	June 25, 2024
Data Quality Assessment incorrectly says Community Taxon is "at genus level or lower" Bug Reports	16	1451	March 12, 2021

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