Should I flag an old observation I wish to be split into two?

[xena_morph]

Hello! Recenlty I’ve been ID’ing old audio recordings of birds in my region. I found one recording where the author gave an incorrect ID of a songbird, but also that songbird was not the loudest on the recording. I wish to ID both birds, but I don’t want it to interfere with previous (correct) ID from other user. The user that made this observation is long inactive. May I flag this for curation or should I just live with it? :) I saw flags for split on photo observations, I think it should be possible with audio, but I’m not sure.

The observation in question: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67412771

[mrtnlowr]

I’m afraid you just have to live with it. Flagging won’t help as only the OP can “split” or duplicate an observation. Neither curators nor staff can help.

[xena_morph]

Thanks!

[petezani]

I try to leave a comment asking the observer to split even if they are long inactive in the off chance they become active again. Not likely, but sometimes it works.

[DianaStuder]

Only one species per observation please (but you can have many photos in one obs - if they are all that same species)

https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000171680-what-do-i-do-if-the-observation-has-multiple-photos-depicting-different-species-

Data Quality Assessment (see below) - evidence related to a single subject

is the comment I leave, now we have a suitable DQA

[schoenitz]

This doesn’t apply here. The DQA item is for cases where there are multiple pictures/sounds that do not contain one identifiable organism. It is explicitly not for cases where one picture/sound shows evidence for more than one organism. Please don’t use it for that.

[thebeachcomber]

yeah definitely agree, I recently had someone log back onto iNat to respond to me after being inactive since 2022!

[DianaStuder]

Me too. I think people are keeping up with iNat. But without visibly logging in and engaging.