Legacy Disputes
We need to be able to delete Legacy Disputes and Discussions once the dispute or discussion has been resolved.
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@David Slatter yes, some Legacy discussions are of no value and just add clutter, but right now a Discussion is the only place you can record information & opinion etc that can't be deleted by someone else. Often these valuable non-removable discussions can be thoughtful and detailed. So IMO it's a balance of keeping some clutter vs allowing anyone to delete with or without justification. Of course the person creating the Discussion can delete or modify it and should be encouraged to do so where possible.
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It has been currently decided not to build back in the ability to delete legacy disputes. Along with that decision is the idea of programmatically cleaning up the legacy dispute discussions that provide no value.
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My apologies for addressing the matter to you at https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/comment/509741#Comment_509741. I did not remember your having already answered the query here.
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This is a liability. The legacy notes often refer to other individuals whose profiles were incorrectly merged or were simply confused for each other. They often include factual statements that aren't applicable for that individual or are no longer relevant. How else do we get those removed before they confuse other editors?
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Considering you can't delete any other users’ discussions or comments. This provides the same kind of discussion history. We are more concerned with discussions that don't provide any history or value.
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As with the main Discussions items, you can also add a comment / message to ones for Legacy Disputes, which will provide a clear view of any confusing issue - e.g., statements that might now appear a nonsense - say, following a merge of IDs. Alternatively, create a new Discussion / Note item headed "Legacy Disputes", under which you can clarify the points that might otherwise cause the confusion you describe.
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If you've worked with the system, you'll know THESE are those discussions. I've run across no Legacy comments that provided any value -- they all refer to problems that were solved years earlier or people other than the people they're attached to. Even the hypothetical one that did provide value would be better suited as an alert in the new system.
The one Paul posted is a good example of how pointless and awful these things are: 1) it lists fifteen other people but apparently only applied to one of them, though it's unclear who that was, 2) it also appears forever (now) attached to everybody named on that list, in some cases multiple times (LZLB-XKW), and would appear on any profile that got incorrectly merged, edited, then restored, and 3) has done absolutely nothing to prevent that profile from being a complete trainwreck.
Your comment is also incorrect in that you can delete Notes, which may be why they're the better option and more frequently used.
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