# Why are some taxa automatically "captive/cultivated"?

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**Created:** [August 22, 2020, 4:10am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/why-are-some-taxa-automatically-captive-cultivated/15638 "2020-08-22T04:10:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![cmcheatle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/cmcheatle/32/37_2.png) [@cmcheatle](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/cmcheatle)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 4:29am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/why-are-some-taxa-automatically-captive-cultivated/15638/2 "2020-08-22T04:29:02Z")

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‘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’

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