After looking at my Year in Review and hearing @catchang ’s discussion of identifications, I looked again at the definitions of the various categories of IDs and I’m still confused. For a “Leading” identification, what does it mean that the “taxon descends from the community taxon”? Can someone ple…

Matthew has already answered your specific questions, but as it seems you are more interested in what it means overall I’ll try to get at that. Lots of leading IDs generally means that you have IDed a lot of observations that are not RG, or you are correcting misIDed observations. This could indica…

Here are all the definitions: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/help#identification [image] gcwarbler: Does this just mean that an ID I offer on someone’s observation is “finer” (lower taxonomic level) than what the OP or community has thus far offered? In essence, but specifically that is …

2 against 1 is Pre-Maverick https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/pre-maverick A Maverick ID makes no difference to CID. They have consensus.

I think you’ve helped clarify the situation somewhat but I’m still confused by some of its complexity. I probably shouldn’t worry about this at all, but since iNat seems to like categorizing my identifications in Years in Review, I’m just trying to understand what’s in that black box! For Situatio…

An interesting test of whether I understand it right myself! But I think your difficulties are not coming from understanding the definition of leading - which is very simple (is your ID below the community ID on the taxonomic tree?), but tracking how the community ID changes when different IDs are …

Leading. ‘I was first’ is a reward to people who happened to be right time right place for 24/7 time zones. Personally I put a high value on people who narrow an ID with a brief helpful comment. Taxon specialists might only dip into iNat when they have leisure - not first, but ultimately the best.

I personally ignore leading, improving, and supporting. I do pay attention to Mavericks for a couple of reasons (even though they aren’t affecting CID). If I am wrong, then the maverick is a learning opportunity for me - I’ve been outvoted, and I can investigate to learn why and improve. I can al…

Still don't understand what a "Leading" identification is

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gcwarbler December 15, 2023, 4:57pm 9

Perfect. My sentiments exactly.

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Still don't understand what a "Leading" identification is

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