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Not a place category on Verify Places

Colton5735
Colton5735 ✭
February 3, 2024 edited April 10 in Get Involved/Indexing

Sometimes when I am on Verify Places, it pops up something that is completely ridiculous, and is not even a place, such as "lived as a farmer", or "Social Security #blah blah blah", and I think there should be an option for if it is not a place, so that we don't just skip it and circulate the problem to yet another person.

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    February 4, 2024 edited February 4, 2024

    I've never gotten one like that, but I think I'd be tempted to make use of the open-edit nature of the tree to fix such a thing -- I'd use the PID to go to the profile's Details page and move the information to a more appropriate field (with a note in the reason box about encountering it via the Verify Placenames activity). An edit like that would be "credited" directly to me, rather than to "Volunteer Project", but I'm fine with that.

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  • JulianBrown38
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    October 13, 2024

    FYI, "NOT A PLACE" has since been implemented for use in this situation.

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