I’m observing since some time that there are pictures added to taxon-pages that are not correctly identified (mostly from flickr or wikimedia), I have deleted them but after some time those are added again, sometimes even as first picture (e.g. Ancistrus temmickii, Hypostomus plecostomus). Is there…

I think it would be helpful if the option to choose an image from Flickr or Wikipedia Commons was removed altogether, as, like OP said, these images are sometimes incorrectly identified and don’t add to the taxon assistance.

I disagree. I have used those platforms to add photos for taxon that had very few obs and/or poor photos on iNat.

There was a time when very few pictures were available on iNaturalist. Flickr and Wikipedia commons are still a good source for good photos. I think it now time to be able to annotate these photos and lock it (so that it can only be edited or deleted by a curator. Annotation may be useful to point o…

I think it would be best that it could be handled differently for different taxa, there are definitely taxa (in my case Loricariidae & Callichthyidae) for which there are no good representative pictures available and any source would be ok. In these cases the risk is low that users often upload wron…

[image] karsten_s: I removed the wrong pictures ~1 year ago, ~3 months ago & ~2-3 weeks ago and yesterday there were again wrongly identified ones added, Unless another user is going in and reverting the images, that sounds like a bug to me. Can you link to which picture(s) are incorrectly id…

It’s not always exactly the same pictures that are re-appearing, sometimes yes, sometimes other (new) pictures appear which are wrongly identified. For Ancistrus temminckii for instance the Wikimedia Commons picture are not correctly identified and I have removed them some days ago. For Hypostomus …

I see some good ideas here. Either somehow locking or restricting who can change photos for problematic taxa. Or if there was some way to reject a certain photo from being added again.

There are tons of insects misidentified by overambitious amateur photographers on Flickr, so I’d really prefer to deprecate those. I think I’ve had to replace a couple dozen incorrect taxon photos here that had been imported from there by unwitting users. My feeling is that if there isn’t a good pic…

Excuse me but who “borrows” pictures from internet and upload as their observations? Those should be blocked immediately. A simple check (by googling the photo) could be done automatically and when it occurs on dodgy sites simply be returned to the observer with a red flag and a warning. Maybe a cha…

This forum topic is referring to the example photos displayed on the taxon pages (informational pages about species and other taxa). Not photos used on observations. [Screenshot_20210102-101334]

Limit sources for taxon-page photos?

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Limit sources for taxon-page photos?

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