Please fix Auto-Standardisation of Crewe to Crewe by Farndon (1939 Register)
There are a number of times that the auto-standardisation maps some variation on "Crewe, Cheshire, England" to "Crewe by Farndon, Cheshire, England". One is the major railway town, the other a small village on the opposite side of the county. I'm sure there are a number of (possibly unforeseen) ways that it fails - here's another.
This is the 1939 Register for England & Wales source record whose auto-standardisation failed - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7G26-J4MM I have pasted the salient text below:
- Event Place Crewe by Farndon, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
- Event Place (Original) Crewe M.B., Cheshire, England
The correct output Event Place should be "Crewe, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom"
Note that "Crewe, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom" already has an Alternate Name of "Crewe MB" (no full stops/periods), which I have a vague idea I asked for, to hopefully trap cases like this.
Does it need some coding writing to match "M.B." to "MB"?
But in any case, full stops aside, what puzzles me is that if I enter "Crewe M.B., Cheshire, England" into the FamilySearch Standard Places facility, it gives one answer only, which is the correct one of "Crewe, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom". So I am surprised that "Crewe by Farndon" was chosen for this entry. Is it possible that this is an old auto-standardisation result that hasn't been updated - in which case, will it be auto-corrected and how long before the correct version appears?
@N Tychonievich - please pass on & many thanks
As an aside, the Auto-standardisation and an online query in Standard Places often give different answers from identical input - I would expect that if the online query gives a list (as it usually does) then the Auto-standardisation would come up with the first on the list. It seldom does (for me), which makes providing advice tricky.
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Still happening, by the way... I'm just adding this example as a record for @N Tychonievich to pass on if it helps.
See https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7G2X-KFN2 where "Event Place (Original) = Crewe M.B., Cheshire, England" is mapped to "Event Place = Crewe by Farndon, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom".
The correct mapping should be to "Crewe, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom".
I'd have thought that (disregarding the "United Kingdom") "Crewe M.B." was closer to "Crewe" than "Crewe by Farndon" in a letter count. And the proper "Crewe" name also has an Alternate Name of "Crewe MB" (no full stops), though I'm not sure how that could be used in the algorithm.
Unfortunately whoever added that record to my G-GF (and the equivalent to my G-GM) clearly doesn't understand the difference between the two locations with names like "Crewe".
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