Enforce documentation for facts
When adding facts, enforce something being written in the explanation box, and some source, whether it be a record within FamilySearch, from another site, or a statement of what source was used being linked to the fact.
The reason is that the more I look, the fewer facts are linked to the source from which they came (which I am fixing as I go through and find them) or with absolutely nothing to back them up and no hint as to where the information might have come from. Often there is a source document recorded - but it isn't being linked. I've fallen foul of this problem when adding information from a census - the system didn't link the census as source to the fact.
More and more I am finding facts that do not even remotely fit with the person's other previously recorded facts. If users had to justify their addition it might make the shared family tree better.
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So many changes on family search are made without documentation. This should be a requirement in order to make changes on Family Search.
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The reason that so many conclusions aren't yet tagged to sources is 90% not the user's fault: the ability to tag non-Vitals conclusions is barely over a year old, and even now, it's missing from Source Linker -- yes, including its brand-new-still-working-on-it version. You noticed this yourself: "the system didn't link the census" -- because it is not set up to do so.
I believe it would be a very bad idea to require tagging without first making tagging a whole lot easier to do -- and, of course, no such requirement can be applied retroactively.
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