While I understand Mike's point, I look at this issue from a slightly different perspective. Firstly, I am not embarrassed by the fact that a sighting of mine has been rejected by MOURC. Their standards are high and that is as it should be. By the same token, a rejection does not necessarily mean that the ID was not correct. I would rather see all of the information available than have some of the information and not all of it. Each of us can then draw our own conclusions. If this transparency troubles some, then allow the rejected records to be entered anonymously on the MOU website. For me the possibility that the sighting was accurate is more important than knowing who reported it.
-----Original Message----- From: Minnesota Birds [mailto:mou-...@lists.umn.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Hendrickson Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 12:35 PM To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU Subject: [mou-net] MOU Website & RQD Review Page Hello: Well its rainy and I got the day off because of it. I was browsing around on the MOU website (http://moumn.org/) and noticed on the web page for Review RQD Documentation (http://moumn.org/cgi-bin/rqd.pl?op=all) that the MOU website manager(s) has added a vote column next to the bird that was documented. This vote section in the Review RQD Documentation gives browsers a full view of whose bird sighting(s) were rejected by MOURC or accepted by MOURC. In other words I can read names of birders who submitted a bird sighting to MOURC to see if their record was rejected or accepted. I think in my opinion its odd we keep names of birders private in the MOURC Voting Summary articles private.. meaning they that all birders who contributed bird sightings to MOURC are mention after the article but not next to bird sightings that were rejected or accepted. Is it really necessary to type in next to birders names if their bird sighting was rejected or not? Should we not keep this private to not embarrass anyone for records rejected by MOURC? Was that not the whole reason to not publish names next to accepted or rejected bird sightings in the Loon articles? In my opinion I think the MOU web page managers should remove this item off the page because to me its no ones concern whose record was rejected or accepted. Just a thought. Mike Mike Hendrickson Duluth, Minnesota Website: http://webpages.charter.net/mmhendrickson/ Blog: http://colderbythelakebirding.blogspot.com/ ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
