On 2 May 2023, a south african user uploaded a few observations he did on 28 April. The place is written as “2 Cussonia Street, Brummeria, Pretoria, 0184, South Africa”, but on the map, a bay in Borneo (tropical asia) is shown. Overall, the correct place seems to be south africa, as observations of …

I’ve edited the original post to remove a link to an example observation - just a reminder to not post links to observations of other users calling them out for use of iNat. In this situation, the observation has a very large accuracy circle, so the observation may be anywhere within it. If you are…

If, the user is still active, sometimes the best way to reach them is to leave a polite comment (and a link to the offending obs) on their ‘today’s obs’. Some app users cannot see notifications. Some are swamped and ignore them all.

Some people don’t know how to edit. Link to instructions (which must be somewhere), with a request to change. If the observation isn’t updated to the correct location after quite a while, vote down for “Location is accurate.” This is will send the observation to Casual.

I prefer to work towards the most positive outcome possible. In this case that means to get the observations placed at their correct location, and keep them available for further ids to research grade. The “official” solution does only try to limit the damage caused by the error. It sends the obse…

[image] bernhard_hiller: The “official” solution does only try to limit the damage caused by the error. It sends the observations to the heap of “casual” observations and thus prevents them from becoming false RG, and also removes them from the “needs id” queue. That is not good for the observe…

Try, if possible, to reach a compromise between the importance of keeping data reliable and the possibility that this user will react to your advise. As regards, if a) it is possible that that species occurs inside the circle of the position, b) it is surely wild, you can evaluate if it still accept…

[image] bernhard_hiller: What is “today’s obs”? if they have another obs today, they may respond to a comment there. As a last resort.

OK, thanks. Just sent a “private message”. Let’s wait and see…

Was it a website or an app obs? (I only use the website, but one of the apps doesn’t show notifications, or messages ??)

I have seen quite a few similar cases of this. Once saw an obs for a smallmouth bass in the UK which i thought was accurate ( since there are some old sunfish records here) but was eventually tweaked to the actual location ( in the States) and a few obviously British moths in West Africa when all th…

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