Include Reason statement being recorded in score.
The research process is as follows:
Gather -> Choose -> Find -> Evaluate -> Share
Family Search Family Tree was created by AF, PAF, and other sources. Sources have been attached for a lot of the records. The community has done a great job of gathering and more has and always will need to be done.
The statement from the profile quality states the following:
"This profile is well documented. Consider spending time documenting other profiles."
When this is not correct. In a lot of profiles with "High" we have only gathered, in some cases chosen, and found more record. Completely skipping or providing no evidence that evaluate was done. A lot of profiles are completely skipping the evaluate step to come to a conclusion to share. Evaluation may be done in a single source. But the proof statement or reason statement for the vital information, event, or relationship is never recorded. So how are we to know that evaluate was done?
I think part of a good profile would be to have reason statements for all vitals, other information, and relationships. Perhaps as part of the tool it can link to documentation on how to write a good reason statement. This is especially true when some sources may not agree.
Perhaps link to the following:
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Thanks for bringing up the importance of performing an evaluation for a conclusion.
Are you suggesting that our profile quality checker should point out if a reason statement is missing on a Birth, Christening, Death, Burial, Name, and Sex? What do you think the score should do in the situation where every conclusion has "GEDCOM data" as the reason statement?
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Yes, evaluation of sources is important. But for the vast majority of people I have ever worked on, if I were forced to add a reason statement to get a better profile score, it would be "Please see the sources tagged to this data." If a source had an issue, I would explain the evaluation of it in the notes section of the source. If the evaluation process was particularly thorny, I'd put it in an Alert Note.
I would prefer not to see the presence or absence of a reason statement added to the profile scoring for this reason.
An other concern that will quickly be raised is that the profile scoring system has no idea what that reason statement contains. A simple "." as some people now add when required to put in a reason statement in some areas, or, as stated above, "GEDCOM data," or a transcription of a source record, or a five paragraph dissertation would be viewed as equally present or not.
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Many reason statements are useless fluff. Presence or absence of text in that box should not affect score.
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