Not sure if this is the project owner’s doing, who they are, or how to reach them, but this…uh…seems off. I tried manually removing it but apparently I can’t? Sorry if this is the wrong place for this question, don’t know what the right place is. [1000006809]

Hi all, thanks for bringing this to our attention. And thank you to @schoenitz for pointing out the one project with no place associated with it. I was having issues creating the place for it, but re-tried today and it worked. I looked at your Ovenbird observation and KBA_Canada is no longer listed …

if you go to the umbrella project in question, and look at the map, you’ll see that some of the defined areas they’re using within individual collection projects have spatial boundaries that cross the border and dip a little into the USA, hence why your observation is appearing in it [image] fel…

Arkansas is significantly south the USA-Canada border. But the observation doesn’t seem to show up on the umbrella project’s map (nor do any others remotely close to Arkansas. Does the it have an extremely large accuracy radius or something?

Does this umbrella show up on any other of your observations? All other observations?

[image] ciafre: Arkansas is significantly south the USA-Canada border thanks, I didn’t pay attention to that

who they are The umbrella project says it was created by @kba_canada. I noticed that your recent Winnipeg observation also has the umbrella project label on it, even though the only KBA areas that have Winnipeg in the name are specific island/aquatic locations that do not match with that locatio…

Indeed. This project is malformed: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/south-shore-roseway-to-baccaro-kba-ns017 It has no inclusion criteria defined, which has the effect that the umbrella project appears on each observation of everyone who has joined the umbrella project. Contact the umbrella ad…

[image] schoenitz: Contact the umbrella admins (kba_canada, petersoroye) and ask them to remove this project from the umbrella. OK, honestly all I know is the weird Arkansas observations, like I said, up until those my observations have all been in Canada, so I never thought twice about it. I…

[image] schoenitz: And/or contact the malformed project’s admin (oh look, the same people) and ask them to fix that project. Are you suggesting that I or @cthawley do that?

[image] schoenitz: Does this umbrella show up on any other of your observations? All other observations? It shows up on all of them, but 90% of my observations are in Canada, which is why I never gave it a second thought until now.

Um? Auto-umbrella group label seems off

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cthawley May 15, 2026, 2:31pm 7

Haven’t looked, but maybe something like this is happening?

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/project-displaying-on-all-observations/78607

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Um? Auto-umbrella group label seems off

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