I have encountered this a few times recently, particularly with observations by vagabondvoyager. If I’m looking to review the IDs of a taxon, some of the records come up with no chain of IDs visible to me even though they are RG level. If I add an ID the pre-existing chain suddenly reappears (and I …

Please don’t add identifications to this until the staff have a chance to figure out how it happened! https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/8119918 (Looks like @tiwane added an annotation, and now the IDs are visible again.) Edit: also one remaining untouched example from @saturnring 's thread …

Also don’t touch anything else about it (annotations, DQA), which will likely cause the IDs to appear (cc: @kueda ).

hmmm, from two years ago… maybe we could all check back through our obs for these…

Yes, I brought this kind of thing up before at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/inaturalist/no$20observations|sort:date/inaturalist/rAdD-NTv5Eg/FVe1kcMiEAAJ

If anyone finds other examples, better to just send directly to help@inaturalist.org than report via the forum.

I’ve seen this only one time before Back when I was wet behind my ears "Newer to INat” And ID’d it was a saguaro cactus What is odd about this one is the observer Did not place there own ID on this one thermselfs

Could it have been identified by two users then those two users both deleted their identifications? Somebody must have identified it or it would be marked “unknown”

The IDs are there, just not visible. If you made your own ID then the other two or more IDs would become visible. After deleting your newly added ID, the now visible IDs remain visible. The mystery is why did they become invisible, and so hence Cassi rightly putting up the warning not to try alterin…

[image] Research Grade observation with 0 IDs did a deleted user id it ? No, but that would certainly be a good sign (that IDs persist after a deletion)!

Obscured ID chain in RG observations

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saturnring June 15, 2019, 6:54pm 24

there’s another one reported here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/research-grade-unknown/4183

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Obscured ID chain in RG observations

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