Platform: Website
Browser: Chrome
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Description of problem:
Step 1: Go to batch upload on the website
Step 2: Upload your photos
Step 3: Once the photo has finished entering metadata, it immediately adds a random species ID. It’s happened to me on two different occasions and done a different species both times.
This is almost certainly due to there being the common name for chicken in the filename or keywords of your photos. iNat takes those and tries to match them to taxa in its database.
It happened to me once. and the photos in question had filenames that were just strings of letters and numbers.
This happens when I upload a record without an image. The suggested name is always the same — a butterfly: Hipparchia semele. I noticed that it happened to other people…
Sorry. It is not without but with an image. The keywords in the picture are “biodiversité” “faune” “oiseaux”
it seems “Faune” is listed as a French common name for H. statilinus
H. asella has the common name “Triangle”, is it possible the word “triangle” appears in the filename/tags/elsewhere in the metadata?
Ahhhh that must be it. These plants were from a place called Triangle Lake, and my image file names all had that in them. Thank you!
