What is a placeholder backup?

We made the project BECAUSE the observer’s text is destroyed with the first ID (under iNat’s misunderstanding that placeholders are junk info - like ‘something’). However wrong or unhelpful it may be, iNat overrides the observer’s intention. Which is ‘irritating’ if the scientist knows exactly what sp they saw, but it isn’t in iNat yet. Or for ‘beetle on daisy’ - where the observer had TOLD us which one they were looking at.

January 2020 decision

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