iNaturalist:Views.observations.show.quality assessment help html/en

The data quality assessment is a summary of an observation's accuracy. All observations start as "casual" grade, and become "needs ID" when

 the observation has a date  the observation is georeferenced (i.e. has lat/lon coordinates) the observation has photos or sounds   Observations become "research grade" when   the %{site_name} community agrees with the observer's ID, where an "agreeing" identification is one that matches exactly or is of a child taxon of the observer's ID. For example, if Scott says it's a mammal and Ken-ichi says it's Homo sapiens, then Ken-ichi agrees with Scott.   Observations will revert to "casual" if the above conditions aren't met or   the community agrees the location doesn't looks accurate (e.g. monkeys in the middle of the ocean,   hippos in office buildings, etc.)   the community agrees the organism isn't   wild/naturalized (e.g. captive or cultivated by humans    or intelligent space aliens) </li>  the community agrees the observation no longer needs an ID and the community ID is above family </li> </ul>