Unexpected observations in project

Howdy folks,

I’m sure the answer is obvious and simple, but I am very puzzled to find that there are ~211 observations of cultivated roses (Rosa sp.) in the Fungi of the California Floristic Province project.

Given the taxa- inclusion criteria for observations in the project… why are they there?? As far as I can tell, all the other observations in the project are in fact fungi.

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They’re all observations where the first ID was a fungus, but they’ve since moved into Rosa, e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/314005137

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Thanks! I was wondering if that might be the case, but I thought that if it were, I’d also see other examples of plant pathogens getting re-identified as plants showing up in the project.
Maybe not so common because of the Captive/Cultivated nature of these Rosa?

Shouldn’t they be removed from the project once the consensus is no longer a fungi?

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You have to manually remove observations from traditional projects.

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I think the project managers have to do the removal from traditional projects. It may be good to notify them of this issue.

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Thanks everyone.

It would be great if “Remove from Project” was a hotkey, or at least a clickable option from the Annotations pane of the Identify tool.

I see that Add to Project is already a hotkey, so maybe just add its companion.

Am I missing this ability? Or is there another way to do this other than one-by-one manually?

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My recommendation would be to use the universal metadata tool to bulk remove observations from traditional projects. If you want to discuss that tool, I think probably the conversation should move to that topic.

The other option is a bit more technical, but for those who feel up to running code, see here.

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