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I've tried to help doing place name corrections but I need to have England only. I cannot help with the other places you have in United Kingdom, please use Country names not area names.
Furthermore there is no way to make correct some incorrect name locations, because I am forced to use another incorrect name location.
Many places in England have the same name and are often only defined by a suffix and a county. As an example of such a place say 'Preston' has no less than 39 locations in England, all of which have to be specifically defined. If you need the list I can provide it for you.
Peter Claydon
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Hope I can help with the Volunteer Opportunity when I see only England entries.
At current time I see only 1 or 2 in 40 or 50 entries.
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There's a chicken-and-egg problem with asking the volunteer opportunity to sort by detailed place: the whole point of the task is that the computer doesn't know where the map pin should go. It can sometimes make a guess at a country, but expecting it to differentiate between, say, Wales and England is simply not practical.
I'm worried that you've misunderstood the task, based on your second paragraph. You aren't (or shouldn't be) correcting anything. You're simply identifying a label by which the computer will recognize the location of the event, thereby putting the pin in the right place on the map.
And I don't understand where you're trying to go with your list of Prestons in England. There is nothing at all unusual about there being multiple places with the same name; the 1913 gazetteer of Hungary lists 3 places named Szentgyörgy, 35 named something-Szentgyörgy, and 14 named Szentgyörgy-something -- and this is after Hungary ran its great placename-disambiguation project, which made it possible to uniquely identify everything from the village level up with just the placename.
If the problem is that you're faced with a user-entered place that's ambiguous (just "Preston, England", say), then if you can't determine the correct place based on other conclusions on the profile, you should skip that entry.
If the problem is that one of the Prestons isn't in the database yet, you can go to the Places tool to suggest it (https://www.familysearch.org/research/places/?pagenum=1&pagesize=20). However, I checked, and all but two of the 39 Prestons you list are, in fact, in the database; the only missing ones are "Preston, Stapleton parish Dorset" and "Preston, Tarrant parish Dorset" -- the Places tool only has one Preston in Dorset, and neither Stapleton nor Tarrant are part of any of its names. The two are missing from Google Maps, too, so I'm inclined to think there's an error on your list.
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Just use the SKIP command (it's near the top of the screen) if you don't feel you can contribute to one particular record, either because it's in Scotland or because someone has been daft enough to just record a place as "Whitchurch, England" - or even "Whitchurch". Initially, I spent a bit more time on some entries but as @Julia Szent-Györgyi says, it's not my job to correct other people's inadequacies - only the link to the standardised place that got lost.
I'm wondering if we're running down on England entries that need to be fixed - I just tried a batch of 10 and something like 8 were in County Clare. If the chunk of 10 entries comes from one profile and then another (and why would it be random?) then clustering will be inevitable. Frustrating when I'm correcting what I can see is the same place from different events...
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I have used the same thing. The only place to narrow the search down to is United Kingdom. The site doesn't differntiate between the different parts of the U.K. If you feel uncomfortable doing places outside England then you can always use the skip command at top of page.
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