Funny warning

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David Wynn said: Got this today:


Yes. This warning came up as I'm adding a person by way of their own obituary, with information automatically added from the record. If the person's own obituary is not considered valid proof, what is?

Edit: Not sure if it makes a difference, but I'm using the Android mobile app.

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joe martel said: Obituaries can have many people listed, including the deceased, other who preceded in death and survivors. All those people in that obit can be served up as hints. Too many persons were being added as deceased (revealing private info if they are alive) even thought they were alive. This warning reminds us to be careful and make the a conscious decision.

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Tom Huber said: I'm concerned that the hinting system is serving up names that may be living from obituaries.

In my opinion, it should not and obituaries need to be treated with a lot of caution.

While it is great that the obits are being indexed by machine, and the results corrected, there is a great danger from flawed machine reasoning.

Obituaries are not necessarily good sources of information, though they can go a long way to fill in a lot of otherwise unknown information.

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Paul said: Surely this warning should not appear if a date of death has been inputted on the person page? Maybe it does relate to the user needing to double-check facts that apply to those born less than 110 years ago, as is the case here.

However, there used to be (still is?) a warning that appeared (during the source linker process) when adding a person who was born around 200 years ago - i.e. to provide a reason statement for their death!

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David Wynn said: If anything, that's what I would expect. If a document is providing the death date for the individual, then bypass the warning.

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Christina Sachs Wagner said: I could be wrong but giving a reason statement places that statement as part of the validation. Seems unnecessary, but having to open too many cases for people still living, I'd rather people be reminded and I be a little inconvenienced.

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Cindy Hecker said: That warning is standard when entering anyone born less than 110 years ago. It is needed because too often people add living people, it is a great use caution statement. I just give the reason, death date given.