What's wrong with Bethnal Green?
Obviously it can't just be this one place name, but I can't see why it appears as still needing standardizing after I have already standardized it before moving it over during the source linker process.
I have been standardizing placenames all day and no other place name has provided me with a problem. Anyone have any ideas about why certain place names just refuse to be standardized during this process?
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I so seldom move things over in Source Linker that I have very little experience with this, but I seem to recall an observation that this currently-on-again error has something to do with "fiddling" with the standardization within Source Linker. That is, someone said that if you accept the standardized location offered without adjusting anything, then the standard "sticks". Or that's how it was behaving for that person. Maybe the current re-occurence has introduced new facets.
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My (specifically experienced) "Bethnal Green, Middlesex (or London), England, United Kingdom" problem occurs whether I do the standardizing (selecting from the drop-down) or if it looks perfectly okay and I don't bother touching it.
What I've been doing over the last couple of days is adding census sources. If the individual is already in FT I am usually just moving the residence detail across. However, if I am adding additional children to the database (using the "Add" facility) the place of birth is usually incomplete (say, just "Bethnal Green") so I have to select the correct standard(ized) placename for the time period, as I do all the time with other records.
Some of the sources have included a birthplace of nearby Shoreditch, but working the same way with that name doesn't seem to present any problem. I'm sure, from memory (as this doesn't happen all the time, of course), there are just certain places that the source linker seems incapable of moving across (to the person page) - as standardized Residence or Birth detail - whereas it works just fine in the majority of cases.
I know nothing about coding, but am just interested in whether there is a rational explanation for this type of behaviour - i.e., seemingly identical action producing a different outcome.
I'll try to find an example, but the difficulty in replicating is that (even with the Bethnal Green example) it does work some of the time: so I could ask someone to move the residence across to a specific ID and they wouldn't necessarily experience my problem.
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