How do we report a maliciously indexed batch that is already published by FamilySearch?
The following is for a published image from the Johannesburg Cemetery Index Project that appears to have been maliciously indexed/reviewed:
The film number is: 107797134
Image number: 44 (of 188)
This has already been published on FamilySearch. As can be noted, the names are gooblygook and fabricated dates and events have been added.
Can the publication of this image be withdrawn from Familysearch and re-indexed?
I have tried to "edit" some of the information but unfortunately it it not possible to correct all the fields. No burial dates have been indexed so those dates cannot be corrected or added. In some cases, no names have been indexed so the names cannot be edited/corrected
Can the malicious indexer as well as the reviewer who passed this batch for publication be traced ?
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I see what you mean: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHK-V3YS-VYK
Given the setup of indexing, I would blame the reviewer rather than the indexer. I'm generally reluctant to attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity, but it would take a lot of the latter to result in this mess.
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I agree that the reviewer should have picked this up and both folks should take responsibility - but the issue is - Can this image be pulled out of the published records and be sent back out to be indexed correctly?
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