Are others seeing "Photo Detached by FamilySearch" in their recent changes weekly notification?

JanW2

I'm restarting this because the 2024 entry about it with that title was closed.

I found a notification of 2 photos being removed by Family Search from 2 different people I follow and am descended from, the couple John Stuck GDZQ-S3W and Susan Lipsey LHFB-JW3. There is zero info about what the photos were, who put them there in the first place, and why they were deleted. The Changes link is greyed out.

Since we build these people for sharing on the site and use the site for continuing our own research, shouldn't we get better information about what has been removed and DELETED (since we aren't told what they are, no thumbnails included)?

Since I'm the only person following these two people, I would really like to know what happened and why.

MandyShaw1

@JanW2 this is likely caused by FamilySearch having restricted the Memories for privacy, copyright, presence of URL(s), or other code-of-conduct reasons. The uploader(s) will have received an email notification about each restriction (they could in fact have appealed the decision by replying to the relevant email; these appeals are frequently but not always successful). You could consult an uploader by clicking on their name where it appears in the Change Log against the original tagging of the Memory (though they aren't obliged to respond).

FS have been tightening up on compliance with the Memories code of conduct, so there's been a lot of this going on.

Wayland K Adams

@JanW2 I had this same experience. If you click on the contributor "FamilySearch" you will see this message.

I looked into this with FamilySearch. This is a different situation that what @MandyShaw1 discussed above. This is what I found out.

It is not a photo you contributed. There were a large number of photos that were incorrectly and inappropriately attached to many different PIDs and were removed by FamilySearch.

Again, it is not a photo you contributed and nothing you have done. You haven't lost photos that have been correctly attached. There is no further information available about what the photos were.

Hope this helps.

Adrian Bruce1

@Wayland K Adams said

… It is not a photo you contributed. There were a large number of photos that were incorrectly and inappropriately attached to many different PIDs and were removed by FamilySearch.

Again, it is not a photo you contributed and nothing you have done. You haven't lost photos that have been correctly attached. There is no further information available about what the photos were. …

Is this really satisfactory? @JanW2 has an interest in these profiles and is following them. The whole idea of following profiles is to understand what's happened to them. In this case, the OP knows something has happened to their ancestors' profiles - but not what. It might be, for instance, that the OP can supply a replacement photo that would meet FS's criteria - but they will have no ability to do this if they don't know what the original photo was.

I would add that part of my concern springs from FS doing things like withdrawing source records (different thing) that are supposed to be duplicates but are nothing of the sort. That is illogical but at least we can see what's happened on the profiles they were attached to. If FS has made a similar decision over images - how do we have confidence that the decision made sense if we don't know what the decision was?

JanW2

It would be good to know the specific reason in order NOT to make a similar mistake. I have no idea if this was something I added or someone else did or even FS did. I don't know when I added it, if it was me. This is completely black box stuff. I did NOT receive any emails about anything. And I'm good about reading emails.

So no, not a good answer yet.

Wayland K Adams

@JanW2 As I stated in my earlier response, according to Family Search, this is not something you added or anything you did. The most specific reason I could get from Family Search is that there were a large number of photos that were incorrectly and inappropriately attached to many different PIDs and were removed by FamilySearch.

You do not need to change anything you are doing and you didn't lose anything that rightly belongs to the PIDs you provided.

AmberML1

@JanW2

Just another thought….If you go into the change log for the PIDs you offered, Yes, you will see that FamilySearch detached a photo. But if you go down further, you will see where the photo was once attached: "Photo Attached, September 18, 2024" — it also lists the contributor. You can't do anything with the "Restore" option because the photo is no longer available.

BUT, perhaps you can contact the contributor and start a conversation about that particular image.

Áine Ní Donnghaile

Since @Wayland K Adams indicated these photos were attached "incorrectly and inappropriately," I'm not sure trying to make contact with the contributor would be wise.

Wayland K Adams

I do not recommend you contact the contributor.

JanW2

Thanks, @AmberML1 Brilliant idea! I now know it wasn't something I had attached. You found the solution!