# Snubbing iNat data

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**Created:** [November 13, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/snubbing-inat-data/72643 "2025-11-13T14:40:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/snubbing-inat-data/72643/87 "2026-02-06T19:33:43Z")

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> [@rcavasin](#):
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> Though technically true, museum specimens may have been looked at multiple times (with knowledgeable eyes) without any record being made of the review.

That’s a good point, Rick. Museums aren’t brought up in this thread at all: [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/in-defense-of-the-thousand-confirming-identifications/](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/in-defense-of-the-thousand-confirming-identifications/)

It would be great to have a real-world parallel to confirming IDs. Imagine walking through a botanical garden or browsing a museum collection, and a heads-up display (a virtual pop-up overlay) appears on your phone (or on your augmented reality glasses) right next to the plant label or the specimen: “ID confirmed by 10 taxon specialists”.

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