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In the "My Impact" portion under indexing how do you determine who the indexer was?

DarwinRJensen
DarwinRJensen ✭
September 20, 2024 edited April 10 in Get Involved/Indexing

I was curious concerning records that had been attached because of indexing that I had done so clicked on "see the record." I was very surprised to see a record of a type that I have never indexed. I checked several that said because you indexed the record it was available. All of them were of a type of record that I have never indexed. How do you determine who the indexer was when a hint is attached to a file?

Darwin R Jensen

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  • Ashlee C.
    Ashlee C. mod
    September 20, 2024

    @DarwinRJensen Mod note: Community is a public online forum. For your privacy, your question was edited to remove your contact information. Please see the Community Code of Conduct for more details.

    As far as I know, there is no way for the public to see who the indexer of a record is. There are privacy laws involved in that. I will look into why you were seeing your name attached to a record you did not index and get back to you. Thanks for your patience.

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  • Ashlee C.
    Ashlee C. mod
    September 24, 2024

    Occasionally, errors occur with the computer algorithms. We have not yet been able to identify the cause of this particular issue. However, we are thankful that the record was successfully indexed, even if it wasn’t done by you. We sincerely appreciate your efforts to contribute to the indexing process. Thank you.

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