When observations are not found (,search obs or ,obs), it could be for a number of reasons. For example, a recent search I performed ,obs microdon by me, when i knew I had observed some, returned no results:
The issue here is that microdon is also a genus in Plantae:
If the error message had said it was searching for Genus Microdon (Catstailbush) and used the thumbnail in the error message, then it would've been easier to understand. That would be sufficiently distinct from Genus Microdon (Antflies) to understand the problem. There's an outside chance you'd hit something with neither a common name nor a default picture, but that should be relatively rare.
Additionally, you could've gotten the name of a person wrong, the name of a place wrong, the name of an annotation field, or annotation field value wrong ... to cover the case where any of these things matched the wrong thing (not just produced no results), it would be good to spell out the names of the things in the query fully.
When observations are not found (
,search obs
or,obs
), it could be for a number of reasons. For example, a recent search I performed,obs microdon by me
, when i knew I had observed some, returned no results:The issue here is that microdon is also a genus in Plantae:
If the error message had said it was searching for Genus Microdon (Catstailbush) and used the thumbnail in the error message, then it would've been easier to understand. That would be sufficiently distinct from Genus Microdon (Antflies) to understand the problem. There's an outside chance you'd hit something with neither a common name nor a default picture, but that should be relatively rare.
Additionally, you could've gotten the name of a person wrong, the name of a place wrong, the name of an annotation field, or annotation field value wrong ... to cover the case where any of these things matched the wrong thing (not just produced no results), it would be good to spell out the names of the things in the query fully.