Why is this Observation Casual/Needs ID/Research Grade? - "Official" Topic

You might be interested in voting for this feature request :)
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/say-what-the-community-taxon-is-in-the-dqa/8836

Not quite. If the observer has opted out of community ID, and the observer’s ID is maverick to what the community has decided, the observation will never be research grade.

Right.

And sorry, I’m not following your last few sentences - which part of all that do you think should go in the wiki? Which cases are you referencing when you say “checking ‘yes’…would make it casual”, and what you mean by relevant observation? :)

Some of these explanations are “in” the wiki by way of linking to the FAQ, but maybe it’d be helpful to transfer some of that over here. Kind of a lot of places to keep updated though. https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/help#quality

The data quality info is also on each observation page:

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