This doesn’t sound like a bug. Animals without location IDs are included into every match pool of its species and viewpoint to increase the likelihood of a positive identification.
Interesting. That’s the opposite of how it works when a single encounter is sent to identification - the location ID of the source encounter is pre-checked in the match against criteria and the option to include data without location ID “match data without location ID” is unchecked by default.
It would be great if these 2 methods were consistent in their inclusion or not of data without location IDs to avoid confusion about matching functionality overall but it’s good to have it clarified. thanks @Anastasia
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Feel free to add this as a feature request so we can explore that.