Hello all. Sorry if this is been discussed before. I couldn’t find an exact match of my question. I’m trying to up my number of IDs so that I’m contributing as much as I get back from iNat. I have run into the situation a lot where I can say for sure that the observer’s ID is wrong, but I have no i…

You could enter “Dicots” or “Flowering plants” for all the erroneous ones and say “Not Chinese Fringe Flower, but sorry, I don’t know what it is.”

I agree with Janet. What I do is ID as plants or whatever it is and leave a comment.

I try to suggest at least a family. I’ve never seen that plant before, so would also just have known it wasn’t Loropetalum. But it does look like it belongs in Malvaceae, so I would have suggested that family. If I can’t even recognise the family I will go back to “dicot” or “monocot”, but I then ke…

Put the narrowest ID that you can. If you know it’s wrong, then a disagreeing ID is warranted. Notes are nice, and leaving them can help, but you don’t need to leave them. If the observer wants to know they can ask.

Welcome to the forum! Just a quick note that I removed the link to the specific observation, since it was noting another user’s mis-ID. It’s clear the link was included in good faith, but we want to avoid calling out specific users with links on the forum. I think the initial post is quite clear and…

If I truly can’t provide many suggestions on what something is (like, it’s not X, but is a dicot of some sort), I’ll sometimes add a non-disagreeing ID (so I can see what other identifiers add later) and a comment that it isn’t X, but I can’t help otherwise, and then let the observation sit a while.…

Just remember that there’s a bug of sorts in the ID system: after you put in a disagreeing ID, in order for a new narrower one to take effect, you have to remove yours. Otherwise it will stay at “dicots” or whatever even if the original wrong ID is removed.

If you hard disagree (it is NOT, as opposed to Don’t Know) We need more than two thirds against the wrong ID and the disagree = FIVE identifiers need to agree on the right ID. If someone supported the wrong ID, or the it is A Plant - we need seven … We have better management of Ancestor Disagreem…

Before adding a disagreeing ID, I sometimes try to get the user on the “right track”. For example, a user has entered an ID by using a common name, but there are more than one species in the world with that common name and the user just added the first species as ID that is in the drop down menu wi…

As indicated above, there are other approaches, softer approaches you might say. However, they all require that you keep track of the observation or at least any further comments or identifications in order to get the ID to the right place. Great when it works, but I, anyway, would loose track of …

What to do when you know an ID is wrong but you don't know what the correct ID is?

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What to do when you know an ID is wrong but you don't know what the correct ID is?

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