Flag multiple irrelevant scenic photos or give explanation of what is good

dmiller3767575

I find people will post 15 pictures of a cemetery for one person. It is the cemetery where they are buried, but it isn't that grave. They seem to have pulled up every photo they can find of the cemetery which might include buildings, lawns, vast landscapes and other general stuff. Other times they latch onto a name of a place and start posting lots of photos of the place, even if it had nothing to do with the person. I have even seen some where they posted handcart pioneer photos on a person's memory who were not handcart pioneers or they show an event that occurred in a pictured place that was not even from the period the person lived. I know people will do what they want but it seems like there could be something to suggest that relevant photos are great but if people just want to see landscapes of an area they could search for those on their own. They often have nothing to do with the person it's supposed to be memorializing.

RTorchia

We really do need some better guidelines on memories. Some of the spam I'm seeing a lot of:

1) Screen shots from Find a Grave. Why...why do people do this? Not even the grave stone, just that hideous gray page with whatever unverified, unsourced trash the memorial manager puts there. (Even worse when it's from their phone.) Then they go and set it as the portrait.

2) Screen shots of documents we already have attached as sources, usually posted at illegibly small resolutions. And screen shots of personal Ancestry trees and GENI pages.

3) Country and state flags, often ones that didn't even exist when that ancestor was alive, usually tagged to hundreds of profile pages, including spouses and descendants who never lived in the place represented.

4) Current maps of states and countries on ancestors from a few centuries ago.

5) Clip art of boats for ancestors people think immigrated, but are often wrong about because they only matched the names and birth countries.

6) Personal notes that are inappropriate for a community tree, like "My 10th Great-Grand Cousin". (Again, also usually wrong because people rely on names and dates and old, poorly sourced ancestors are constantly getting moved around and changed.

7) Modern photos of towns that ancestors left a few hundred years ago.

8) Unsourced coats-of-arms. Do people think every surname has exactly one?

9) The inevitable sketch of George Fox that gets posted as if it's a sketch of the specific Quaker ancestor it's attached to.

10) Photographs of people who died before 1830.