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That’s not a bug, every tag of file name containing a taxon name will be used as a fast id. If your file name had separation between 2 other words, iNat would recognize the full name.

moved to general as not a bug See https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-observation-automatically-tagged-my-observations-with-incorrect-names-based-on-photo-filenames/8203 for more info expanding on Marina’s comment

I include species scientific names in my filenames precisely because the iNat uploader will parse that into my suggested species name. But as you’ve noticed, if the filename is not spelled and formatted the same as an existing iNat taxon, you will get spurious results or nothing at all. IF you’d l…

[image] joseph103: "Orange-crownedWarblerIMG_7385.jpg. But I am not naming the file the exact name of any taxon. I specifically avoid that by appending the original file name and I never use spaces. So “Orange-crownedWarblerIMG_7385.jpg” should not be assuming that I am uploading a picture…

The file name is “Orange-crownedWarblerIMG_7385.jpg.” There are no spaces at all so it should not be assuming anything. No other bird name does this and if you say it’s a feature I’m afraid it is not working as expected.

Because there’s nothing called just “blue”, it’s an automatic system with no difference between space and -. It is working as it should be and it’s not connected with oranges specifically.

That’s the problem. It should distinguish between a space and a hyphen. How about fixing it so that an underscore is the same as a space, but a hyphen is not? That would bring it into compliance with standard naming conventions. Yesterday I uploaded a file named “Great-tailedGrackleIMG_8666.jpg”…

How about just adding another “-” instead of getting words together, so system recognizes the full name? Or write all words together, if you already write part of them together you can do that with nothing lost. System is working fine. It should not distinguish space and hyphen, it would make writin…

Seems like the proposed solutions are even more trouble than just typing it in. When I just now typed in “orange-”, adding the hyphen opened up a lot more possibilities.

My point is that hyphens are routinely used in official bird names and they never mean the same thing as a space. By parsing hyphens as spaces, iNaturalist is creating a total mess. The obvious fix is to parse spaces or underscores as spaces and hyphens as hyphens. Is that really too much to ask? …

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Add observation - Automatically tagged my observations with incorrect names based on photo filenames Bug Reports	76	5712	May 29, 2020
Weird id suggestions in web uploader: "orange" or "wall brown" Bug Reports	4	755	May 5, 2020
Treat hyphens as hyphens and underscore as spaces. Feature Requests	22	1745	May 11, 2023
Opt out of taxon ID autofill from photo filename on upload Feature Requests	14	1086	March 7, 2020
Observations uploading with random species Bug Reports	18	1289	January 2, 2020

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