Way too many observations of wild organisms getting marked as captive

[jwidness]

@jwidness

From https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/help#quality

“The system will vote that the observation is not wild/naturalized if there are at least 10 other observations of a genus or lower in the smallest county-, state-, or country-equivalent place that contains this observation and 80% or more of those observations have been marked as not wild/naturalized.”

The system doesn’t read the description when voting not wild, so if you have any reason to suspect that your observation might get automatically voted not wild, you should go ahead and vote wild yourself when you upload – it shouldn’t take much more time than putting “wild” in the description field.