This may already exist somewhere, but I haven’t seen it. Is there some already-written verbiage to tell identifiers that they should not ID something in an observation when the additional photos are all of different species? I have (and use) verbiage to tell the observers that they need to make th…

It doesn’t look like that has been included in the following page, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have your own. https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/responses#multiple I just disagree, bumping the ID up to whatever level is necessary. I’ll add a comment that we shouldn’t ID just one photo because t…

This is mine - Only one species per observation please https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-fix-your-observation-with-photos-of-multiple-species/15096 Please don’t ID for only ONE of the multiple species - until the observer has split to single species.

There are two ID situations: First, as Diana has already stated and also the solution has suggested. Second: different species on one photo. ad. 1 Make clear to the observer, that you can only ID his/her observation after he/she has split it up into different observations and posted them. Helpful …

Here’s what I usually write: “Welcome to iNaturalist! Your photos show different species. Please post these species separately, so we can give each one its own name. Here are some tips for splitting the observation up here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-fix-your-observation-with-photos-o…

And since only 1 in a 100 observers does come back to resolve their problem children. My previous workaround - which is not allowed - was tidy and efficient. My above copypasta with Life + Life + DQA good as can be = Casual Problem was solved. And that workaround was originally suggested to me …

Yes, I have verbiage like your first paragraph for the situation when the observer posts photos of different species (sometimes as different as ferns and birds). The polite verbiage I would like to have is AFTER I have commented with this verbiage about separating their observations into different s…

I would add a hard disagreement and say something like, “Please leave this observation at the higher identification level of ______ until the observer resolves the problem that the photos show different species. They need to be separated.”

Huh you aren’t supposed to mark multi species posts DQA as good as can be?? But the community taxon can’t go any lower so what’s the issue?

It’s not really clear what to do with multi-species observations. Here’s what I think ( @tiwane , correct me, please!) identifiers are supposed to do: Make a comment alerting the observer that there’s a problem. I say this (the Spanish is copied from Jason Hernandez): “It appears that you have inclu…

I totally agree with the need to comment on multiple-species observations! However, I won’t be back later. Therefore, I ID to the lowest common denominator taxon (or occasionally leave ID blank). If it’s an old observation, I also mark “good as it can be” with the assumption that the observer won…

Verbiage for those who ID observations with multiple species

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Verbiage for those who ID observations with multiple species

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