Suggestion for the "collaborate" section
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I like the idea of research summary because I do think working together it important and anything that enhances collaboration would be good. Some things in notes and discussions are helpful (and some is old gibberish from old programs). I do not mind the warning option but it must be seen on the merge screen, that is truly where the Life Sketch as a warning is most beneficial.
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Why would putting a warning - which of course is information about the person in the person page - be a misuse?
The Life Sketch appears on the Ancestors (ancestors.familysearch.org) profile, which is public, ie outside the subscriber wall and available to all web search engines.
So imagine you are a novice family historian or not at all involved in family history, you google your grandfather, and one of the page 1 results yells right in your face, top and center, "This is MY family, not yours, so LEAVE IT ALONE!!!!!" That's not a good look.
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I do not mind the warning option but it must be seen on the merge screen, that is truly where the Life Sketch as a warning is most beneficial.
@Cindy Hecker makes an excellent point. It would be great to have under Collaboration an optional single Warning entry where we could put information such as: This profile is conflated; don't merge except while detangling or Two men same name, place, birth year; they were cousins, easily confused. I write a lot of Notes like these.
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Please review and comment on some up coming designs
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I stumbled upon a place I'd not given much to for mis-directed Collaborate information; a user put together a "Story" in Memories that appears should have been included under Collaborate as a Discussion. It was a rather effective spot, since no one could change or delete the users "Story", but other users could, "Share what you know about this story".
It seems this format would work well for Life Sketch also, if one was concerned about others changing their initial sketch? The story could even be titled Life Sketch of "Person".... If the Collaborate Notes/Discussions, Caution Banner proposed is effective, it appears Life Sketch could be moved to Memories or the About tab?
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I sometimes wish that FamilySearch had used less cozy names for some of these sections. If instead of "Stories" and "Memories" they had used "Biographical Essays and Research Summaries" and "Historical Artifacts" then more people might make use of the Stories section to preserve well documented research work. With the planned improvements, one could write up a comprehensive explanation of a complex issue to post in Stories and under Notes put a simple Note such as "Please see a discussion of the controversies surrounding this person's birth in "Born when?" under stories." and mark it as an important note.
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