Empty Fields are not Conclusions
This thread in "Suggest an Idea" caught my eye this morning, and I ran the Quality Score on a couple of the examples.
Mary Greengrass has no DOB but has a Christening date. Yet, her score refers to a birth conclusion.
Diana Greengrass has no DOB or DOD, and her score lists an error for date and place as well as a fault for no tagged sources on her death.
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Emma Kilpin has a number of sources attached from the "New Zealand Electoral Rolls, 1865-1957" collection. The PQS algorithm calls out a "Consistent with sources" with "This person's sex does not match the information found on Emma Keightley, "New Zealand, Electoral Rolls, 1865-1957".". This is in spite of the fact that the source in the index has no sex field at all. As far as I am aware, the only individual information captured in that indexing project was the person's name; the sex could not appear because it doesn't appear on the printed roll documents.
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@JulianBrown38 Thank you for your feedback. The source in question is: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:66D9-DQ7T
Male is the gender showing. And unfortunately this record index is not currently editable. A link to the record in question would definitely have been helpful here, as there are several records from this collection attached.
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@Áine Ní Donnghaile Thank you for the feedback. Although the birth dates of Mary and Diana are currently out of the project scope, you are correct in saying that "Empty fields are not conclusions". The engineer has made a note of this.
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@Rhonda Budvarson Thank you. I have to point out that the profiles WERE within the scope of the project when I posted in October of last year.
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@Áine Ní Donnghaile yes they were...sigh and then the scope of the project was tightened up. But your point is still valid. Thank you for your input.
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Yes, but I get a touch frustrated when my comments were apparently ignored for 6 months and THEN I'm told "outside scope."
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