Going forward, this will no longer happen. We’ve updated the algorithm so that an observation will no longer be Research Grade if the observation taxon and the community taxon do not match.
However, this change is not being applied retroactively. So if an observation was RG before today with a community taxon at species and an observation taxon at subspecies, it will remain that way unless it’s reindexed. Observations are reindexed when something gets added to or changed on them, such as a new ID, a DQA vote, a fave, etc. So reindexing an observation like the one described previously will make it Needs ID. I’ve done it for https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/40276969, which was mentioned in a post above.
You’ll also see a new line in the Data Quality Assessment:
