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how do i send back project that is to difficult for me

Betty Willoughby
Betty Willoughby ✭
October 15, 2024 edited March 20 in Get Involved/Indexing

how do i send back project that is to difficult for me

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  • erutherford
    erutherford ✭✭✭✭✭
    October 15, 2024

    Above the toolbar, click on Batch, then select Return Batch.

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  • Cemetery Tramp
    Cemetery Tramp ✭✭
    October 17, 2024

    Exactly what Mr Rutherford said, but far more importantly, thank you a thousand times over for realizing that you are above your skill level as opposed to just attempting to index something that you don't understand. As an indexer and a reviewer, I applaud you for not trying to fuddle your way through. All that does is create a nightmare for whoever gets the document next.

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  • maryellenstevensbarnes1
    maryellenstevensbarnes1 ✭✭✭✭✭
    October 17, 2024

    @Betty Willoughby Equally important is your desire and enthusiasm for indexing. I hope you will come back each day and take a look at available projects and their instructions which come with examples. This forum is always available for questions and we are happy to help. Please don't give up as many hands make lighter work. Best wishes in your indexing and family history work. 😎 Mary

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  • erutherford
    erutherford ✭✭✭✭✭
    October 17, 2024 edited October 18, 2024

    *Mrs. (name removed) Rutherford. 😄

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  • Ashlee C.
    Ashlee C. mod
    October 18, 2024

    @erutherford Mod note: Community is a public online forum. For your privacy, your post was edited to remove a name that is not part of your username. Please see the Community Code of Conduct for more details.

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    October 18, 2024

    @Ashlee, could you please point us at the rule where it prohibits us from telling people our names unless we happened to have included it in our usernames? And could you also please explain the reasoning behind allowing us to use our names as our usernames, but not as part of a Community post?

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  • Ashlee C.
    Ashlee C. mod
    October 22, 2024 edited October 22, 2024

    Number 8 of the Unacceptable and Not Allowed Behaviors in the Community Code of Conduct states: Posting personally identifiable information including, but not limited to, phone numbers, email addresses, passwords, helper numbers. (This is for your safety.)"

    Community is a public online forum, which means that it is searchable using public search engines like Google and Yahoo. To protect the privacy of our users, we kindly ask that our users refrain from posting any personally identifiable information, including names that are not their username.

    If you would like to go by another name than your current username, you are able to change your username. To do this, go to your profile page.

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    Once in your profile, click on the person and then click edit profile.

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    You can change your profile name by clicking on the pencil next to your username.

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    October 23, 2024 edited October 23, 2024

    That doesn't explain why the discrepancy, Ashlee.

    To be clear: I am perfectly happy to have my username be my one of my names. FS is actually the only place I use this exact one online. I think it helps keep people from making unnecessary edits to the Famous Relative; the fact that it also allows me to use my name here in the Community is an inexplicable but welcome added benefit.

    A name in isolation isn't actually enough to identify people. I just tested it on my FS username: on Google's first page of results, only two are actually me. (No, I'm not telling which two, although I'm certain anyone here can figure out one of them.) The rest are other people's profiles on platforms like FaceBook and LinkedIn that I'm not on. (Plus two images of the Famous Relative and one image of a stranger.) My name is relatively uncommon: LinkedIn only has three. It has over 100 (name removed) Rutherfords. Where is the sense in prohibiting use of the latter but not the former in postings here, based on a random choice of username?

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  • Ashlee C.
    Ashlee C. mod
    October 23, 2024

    I can understand that this is a frustration for you. I will certainly pass along your feedback. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. For now, we do kindly ask all of our users to refrain from posting names that are not part of their usernames.

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    October 24, 2024

    C'mon, Ashlee, really? I just finished saying that there are over 100 people on just one online platform with a particular name, and you remove half of it? Where's the logic in that?

    (I object primarily because it took some work to come up with an E. Rutherford without a famous person to clutter the results [usually in the spelling Rutherfurd, which Google "helpfully" insists I must actually mean].)

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