User Names in iNaturalist
Data which reaches "Research Grade" in iNaturalist will be passed to iRecord in the NBN - UK's biological data verification process for inclusion of records in the NBN Species Atlas - https://nbnatlas.org/
During the UK Data Verification process it is necessary for the reviewers to be able to assign names of the recorders to the records so that they can have some understanding of the expertise of the individual recorder associated with the record they are looking at.
On iNaturalist many recorders/observers use 'nicknames' as their User Name instead of using their real/actual names; this makes it very difficult if not impossible for UK record verifiers to be certain of some records and as a consequence some data is unable to be used.
If you want your records to be usable within the UK can you please consider changing your User Name in iNaturalist to the following format: "forename_ surname".
Many thanks for your help in this matter.
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@steve_mcwilliam - I assume it is just a case of changing the username in my profile then logging-out and logging back in with the new username? Just checking as I'd be devastated if I couldn't log back in again :-)
@scrobbesbyrigcyr - John, yes, that is exactly what you need to do. Thank you for being interested and taking the time.
Is there a workaround for those of us who don't wish to put our full names on here (maybe something that can be put in the user-bio)?
Sorry @jamie-aa I'm afraid I know of no other way to do this to enable UK data verifiers to understand who the recorder/observer is. Perhaps asking the NBN might be a way forward - see here: https://nbn.org.uk/inaturalistuk/
Also see here: https://nbn.org.uk/inaturalistuk/inaturalistuk-questions-answers/
Contact at NBN: Giselle Sterry - g.sterry@nbn.org.uk
Also see here about "Display Name": https://irecord.org.uk/linking-inaturalist
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