The burial date is missing.
It's a good goal.
But I think with nothing more than this notice, users might post the death month/year again. Duplicating that data isn't really informative and would add clutter (IMO).
The thing about burial dates, finding them isn't straightforward. It's something that most of us have to learn how to find. If it can be found at all.
Maybe the Date Missing notice could be clickable and take users to a page with suggestions about how to find burial dates.
Users could learn things like: Some church and cemetery records have exact dates.
Some US states record a burial date and location on the death cert. disclaimer: much useful data is omitted from indexing; freshmen researchers often don't know it's there.
US obituaries commonly have funeral dates and sometimes burials can be inferred from that.
Clever researchers will have their own ways about how to suss out a burial dates but you get the idea.
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Thank you for your feedback. Some great suggestions here. They have been passed along to the proper group.
28 May 24 Update:
- No longer expect a death source tagged if also missing death date and death place
This should help with too much tagging.
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@No one in particular do you feel like making burial optional should be worldwide, or just for certain times and/or places?
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rIn manchen Länder wurden durch Kriege viele Dokumente vernichtet.
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@Husz You are correct. War is notorious for record destruction.
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