Why are some taxon swaps automatic, and others require us to re-identify our submissions? Specifically, why did all but one of my Cooper’s Hawks submissions change without me being involved, while a single observation from 6 months ago now lists my correct id. of Accipiter cooperii as “Maverick”?
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I don’t know much about this swap other than, based on the comments on the thread, processing for this swap is still in progress so not all observations have been processed yet. This is a particularly large taxon swap affecting many thousands of observations. Affected observations are not immediately updated and the change takes some time to complete, so there is a transition period where some observations are updated and others have not yet been updated. I’d recommend waiting a few days to let the processing finish - the one you say has not changed may still be in the queue to process
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Thank you. It did eventually swap over to the new genus name. But not before a bunch of knuckleheads had to jump in and correct me because I used taxonomy that was valid at the time the sighting was posted.
There must be a better way to go about updates like this? :-)
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Maybe while a taxon swap is in progress, a pop-up with information on it should appear when anyone tries to add either the old or new ID to an observation, especially to an observation which already has the old ID. I’ve also seen a lot of unnecessary IDs made during taxon swaps, e.g. with the House Wren split. That could be a good feature request…
here’s another case where it’s really important to weigh whether this highly disruptive action really meets iNat’s coal missions or goals. This certainly isn’t helping connect people with nature nor making it accessible to more people, in fact it’s just another obstruction to such.
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Similarly, all genus level IDs for when you weren’t quite sure if COHA or SSHA are now wrong and will eventually be ‘mavericks’. There has to be a better way - as an identifier one can’t be expected to janitor one’s IDs in perpetuity.
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Yesterday I withdrew an ID of mine where I identified an Unknown observation as Accipiter, back some time ago. Now it had turned into a Maverick (because it was a Cooper’s Hawk), so I withdrew it, but even if I hadn’t withdrawn it, it would still be correctly identified as a Cooper’s Hawk. Having to monitor one’s observations as long as humanly possible is indeed an issue, but Mavericks are one way around that problem - they are not a problem themselves.
Yes. That would solve this issue.
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