Strange happenings to edit attempts in sources
No matter how I try, it kept reverting to bad spellings.
I already checked my own work I did for somebody else in 2023, I checked the document and discovered mis-spelled name, edited at the document source. But something now is reverting to bad spellings.
I had to edit the source and it would not hold. What is going on now?
GW3N-LY2 Friederich Schwenk (183901884)
first source 1839 kept showing Scherend after I edited to show Schwenk, but the document is displaying some editing oddity.
Answers
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If the source titler thinks you haven't made a change, then it doesn't save your change. Since "Schwenk" is included in the index (due to a correction, although the system has the dates backwards: it's showing the edit as the original), when you try to change the surname to that, it thinks that's exactly what's there already, and doesn't save the change you made.
This behavior is not normally noticeable, but when the algorithm went schizophrenic a few months ago, we figured it out. (The thread on the topic started in late October.) The problem then was that the titler thought it was applying the secondary-person template ("in entry for…"), but what was actually being applied everywhere was the primary-person template. People would try to edit the title to be more informative, by adding the secondary-person information that was supposed to be there, but their changes wouldn't stick: the title would revert right back to the uninformative and incorrect primary-person format.
The workaround/solution we figured out then still works now: turn off the auto-titler by going off-template in your edit. For example, I added the word "baptism" to Friederich Schwenk's 1839 source, and it saved it that way. (Now that the automatic process has been turned off for that source, you can edit the title to match the template, if you want.)
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