Standardized Icon
It used to be, before they changed to the new improved personal page, that when you took the time to standardize a date or a place, an icon would appear telling you it was standardized. The new page does not and I miss that. Is it a difficulty to add that in? That way, it takes but a glance to see that things are standardized. Thanks for your consideration.
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That icon was discontinued and will not be returning, we have been told, because of the common and damaging misunderstanding of what it meant which you echo here.
That icon never meant a place was standardized or not. It only meant that the entered place name happened to exactly match the standardized value it was linked to. The number of correct place names that can be entered into Family Tree is unlimited. The list of standards will always be a tiny fraction of those.
On the old pages, it was never the meaning that all places had that icon. Usually, it the icon was absent, that meant that a better, more accurate place name had been entered (as long as the place name was correctly entered to begin with).
You can still see at a glance that a place name is standardized because if it is not, then right under the place name in big red letters it stays "Non-standardized Place" like this:
When this place is standardized, it then looks like this:
This place name, although correct and accurate, would not have that icon on the old pages because this place is not in the database yet. Checking the underlying data you see this:
The only way to get that icon would have been to delete important information and turn this into Meland, Hordaland, Norway, which is a much larger, much less specific, much less accurate place name for the event.
If you would like more information about how to correctly enter place names in Family Tree and the role of standardization, you could view my presentation on the subject at: https://youtu.be/qLa5PC4RPPk
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