Reviewing multiple older entries quickly to see if they are waiting to be corrected or refined to ssp. or var

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I just realized, after years on iNaturalist, that if someone only refines your observation to a ssp. or var, but does not disagree with your species ID, the notification of that activity pops up in the message list highlighted in green, as opposed to yellow. (yellow is my signal that a correction is awaiting my attention). So now I’m certain that I’ve inadvertently ignored multiple obs that are waiting for me to “Agree” with a refinement.

I’ve never paid much attention to the green highlighted messages because I always thought were just correct; I’ve generally only reviewed the yellow ones to correct them.

HERE’S THE QUESTION: Is there a way to either quickly scroll through my 4,362 observations to see if any need my agreement to refine to a ssp. or a var., or alternately (and ideally), is there a way to just pull up one big list of all my observations that are still waiting for my feedback?

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Others can answer your way of searching through your IDs better than I can (not sure it’s possible), but here’s some other info.

Adding infraspecific IDs works a little differently now than it used to.

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/leading-subspecies-ids-should-change-the-obs-taxon-like-leading-ids-of-other-ranks/139/137

Yellow/green is not incorrect/correct, but needs ID/research grade. You can have observations RG at either specific or infraspecific levels. You can also have observations at needs ID and that’s not bad.

I understand the desire to ID everything as precisely as possible, but I would ask you not to just agree with someone because they have added a disagreeing or refining ID.

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Yes, I agree with @thomaseverest - Please do not agree with identifications (on your own observations or others) unless you can independently ID to that level based on your own expertise. Agreeing without having expertise is a major issue on iNat and cause of erroneous IDs.

iNat’s official guidance states:

“You should not add an identification or agree to an identification unless you can independently verify it and be able to back it up with evidence. And please only identify to the taxononic level which the evidence supports. Inaccurate identifications can create data quality issues.” (Bolding in original)

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while I agree with the notes above, I don’t think there is anything wrong about agreeing with infraspecies IDs on your observations as long as you look up info/advice on how they’re identified. I do the same for mine; for example reading about plant subspecies and varieties in the Flora of North America or similar.

unfortunately I don’t believe there is a way to quickly search for observations that have an infraspecies ID from someone else that you haven’t agreed with up until now but perhaps one of the virtual scholars of the API would know. @pisum

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i would use this: https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNatAPIv1_observations?user_id=jimpark67&per_page=200&options=idextra&idextra_user_id=jimpark67.

here’s an example of the results that it returns, highlighting a couple of kinds of cases that might be of interest in this case:

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in the first kind of case, you have an observation at subspecific rank, and the identification of the observer in this case is at an ancestor taxon to the observation taxon (species or higher).

in the second kind of case, you have an observation at species rank, and the observer’s identification matches the observation taxon. however, there is at least one ID for a descendant taxon. this means that someone other than the observer has added a subspecific ID.

if you can define what kind of cases you’re looking for, then it is possible to write a script that will get all your observations and then on the client side filter your observations for only those that match your criteria. in my mind, it would probably take more effort to do this than just to visually scan through the results from the page above.

this post sort of describes how i might generally approach that sort of custom filtering, although it doesn’t directly explain how to handle this specific case: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/insight-in-disagreed-annotations/55181/8.

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Your Mavericks - have reached CID despite your wrong ID - which is simply ‘untidy’. Mavericks is an iNat tool.

https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?user_id=jimpark67&category=maverick

In our Pre-Maverick project you have a whole 2 obs! But reconsidering those, withdraw or agree or not? - can make a difference

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?user_id=jimpark67&project_id=156949&place_id=any

Also the new Disagreements filter

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?user_id=jimpark67&disagreements=true&place_id=any

Obs IDed above or to family will include this example

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/207656627

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?user_id=jimpark67&lrank=family&place_id=any

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The intent was to review any obs that are waiting for subspecific review, but I don’t see a way to filter out just those obs, unless I’m missing something. Thank you, though!

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