General discussion

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General discussion about wildlife recording and about records on the site

Verifiers

Submitted by John1964 on

I recorded and photographed a Speckled Wood in my garden. It was verified and subsequently quarantined as I was told “Never seen in area before. Photo please?”  What’s going on. I have recorded hundreds of times. And I have many Speckled Woods in my garden. I live in Southampton. They are common. And I supplied the photo. 

Should verifiers accept their own records?

Submitted by David Hepper on

Does anyone know of recording schemes, whether on iRecord or another platform, with any kind of control on accepting one's own records? It smacks of marking one's own homework. iNaturalist uses a 'wisdom of crowds' algorithm for acceptances but iRecord isn't built that way.

In theory the system could check whether the 'CMS User' of the original recorder is the same as that of the verifier trying to change the record's status. But what would it do then? 

Record status

Submitted by JonathanWallace on

Hi

I have just received a notification relating to a record I submitted back in 2020 as a 'likely' devil's coach-horse.  (Ocypus olens).  The record has been redetermined as Tasgius sp by someone who I believe is an authority on beetles at the Natural History Museum.  I am of, course, more than happy for the record to be corrected by an expert but the point that is puzzling me is that the record's status is still set as 'awaiting review'.  Is this correct or has the reviewer simply neglected to amend the status following the redetermination? 

Exploring records - where are all the historical ones?

Submitted by tarkamerl on

Why is iRecord no longer showing me my historical records? No matter what I do in 'Explore' 'My records', I am only shown 2023 records. This never used to be the case, but the last twice I have tried it, this has happened. I have even tried the 'old version', but the same happens there too. What is going on?