Quick suggestion for all (soon-to-be) admins of traditional projects:
If you want to collect observations of certain phenomena in a traditional project, consider not restricting it to just the place and taxon you are interested in.
It makes recording and finding observations of phenomena, such as aberrant individuals, groups of animals etc. much easier if they are each all in the same project versus when each class on each continent has their own project for it.
Also, observers/identifiers don’t need to joint a million different projects.
If you only care for a certain place or taxon you can still use iNat’s filtering functionality so restrict it.
A good example is https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/amazing-aberrants !
Before I discovered this project I was in like a dozen redundant projects that all did almost the same: Leucistic animals, Pink orthopteran project, Aberrant Salamanders, Aberrant Arthropods, etc…
With this adding and searching for observations will be much easier.
Pro-tip: Use @glauber735’s project search tool, which can sort by project members!
Creating a new project to unify 14 huge existing ones, might just result in 15 projects instead of 1.
Recently I also made a project for groups of related animals/plants in the same location.
Originally I just wanted to record aggregations of harvestmen, but realized that would be kind of a waste of a project.
Of course there might be certain kinds of aggregations you want to record separately, but these are usually already defined by the taxon: Fish shoal/school, birds flock, bison herd, wolves pack, and harvestmen, well… aggregate in a pile of legs.
This is also mostly about traditional projects, since collection projects are just search filters anyway (except, when they include complex lists of taxa, e.g. lists of all parasitic taxa, then the same mentality applies).
Highly specific collection projects just for the sake of community are ofc still very worthwhile!
So find your inner reductionist and future-proof your project to make the most of it for all of iNat :)