The difference between 'Accepted as correct' & 'Accepted as considered correct'

I have noticed that a number of verifiers are only verifying some of my records as 'Accepted as considered correct', but at the same time adding the photos to the Species Details page, which would imply they believe the record to be 'correct'. I think it would help if verifiers believe a record to be correct they should always verify it as 'Accepted as correct'.

The reason I say this, is when trying to identify some specimens I find it useful to search and make comparisons with other records using Explore - All records - Record status: Include - Accepted - correct only.

It helps me, ( and may be useful to others ), because I can then compare my specimen with those that have been 'Accepted' and make comparisons before submitting my record, or not.

But if some records are being verified as 'Accepted as considered correct' when they should really be verified as 'Accepted as correct' then some potentially useful records are being lost in the quagmire of records with an element of doubt about them.

Recent examples; record ID's 40334417, 40236340, 40219145, 40125077 and 40110383

Comments

In general there are reasons for the different categories

Hi Duncan.

There are several slightly diiferent issues being covered here. For context I am a verifier, but not one that has dealt with any of your records, so I cannot explain why particular verifiers have treated the specific records you are thinking of in a particular way (perhaps one of them might see this and explain their thinking). However, I think it would be useful to consider the following points:

Photos from all accepted records are automatically added to the species details pages - they are not added by verifiers.
The two different categories within accepted records are there by design, so it is not the case that if a verifier believes a record is correct they should always verifiy it as 'accepted as correct'. For me, I typically use 'accepted as correct' if there are photos that show all enough for me to identify it as the relevant species. I would usually use 'accepted as considered correct' if someone who has correctly identified a species in the past added a record without a photo, or if there is a photo of a common species that might not show all relevant features but based on the time of year, location etc would seem very likely. Using the terminology from the guidance for verifiers handbook 'accepted as correct' is for cases when the verifier is certain based on photos or specimens, whilst 'accepted as considered correct' is for cases where the verifier is "not certain but is confident that the record is likely to be correct, based on difficulty of ID, date, location plus recorder skills/experience etc."
Any record that is marked as correct or considered correct is an accepted record, and goes into the relevant databases. It is therefore not the case that a record accepted as considered correct is "lost in records with an element of doubt", they all go to the same place. The only time they would be separate is if you deliberately filter for "accepted as correct records" only.