I’ve noticed while tweaking identify URLs to show casual observations without media to mark them reviewed that every now and then the results will include observations with media that technically should show up as Needs ID, not casual.
Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website
Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Firefox
URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: Example search URL: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=casual&page=2&per_page=200&place_id=42&sounds=false&photos=false&captive=false
Example observation found: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/238870363
Screenshots of what you are seeing (instructions for taking a screenshot on computers and mobile devices: https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/):
Occasionally observations with photos will show up among all the obs without media:
When clicking through on these observations, they are “casual” but all DQA items check out fine:
It will even claim that a confirming ID will put it into RG:
Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):
Step 1: Go to Identify, choose filters for casual & has sounds & has photos. Tweak the URL to set sounds=false and photos=false. (I also set per_page=200 to look through as many obs as possible per page.)
Step 2: Browse through the resulting pages of “blank” observations and see the occasional observation with pictures popping up among them.
Step 3: Click on the observation and notice these are casual for no good reason. Adding a confirming ID will indeed kick them out of casual straight into RG. Another way to get these “unstuck” is to vote on a DQA item and reverse the vote and the quality grade will change to Needs ID. Based on this, I’m guessing this is some sort of indexing issue.
Additional examples for testing:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/239040299
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/163889107
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189961791
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/188061420