Is there any provision under the "Volunteer Project" for participants to change the display name?

Paul W

The two screenshots below highlight the problem. In the first, it can be seen how the (correct) standard place name happened to be added (i.e. via the Volunteer Project). In the second, two other alternative versions of the place name "Bilsdale Midcable..." can be seen.

 

Is this project purely about standardizing - or can the volunteer also correct the display name, which, in this case is wrong? (Bilsdale Midcable is currently in the county of North Yorkshire, was previously in the North Riding division of Yorkshire, but can only be correctly standardized as "Bilsdale Midcable, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom" in relation to the time period concerned (mid-19th century).

 

In other words, the "Bilsdale Midcable, Yorkshire (West Riding), England" input/display name is completely wrong - should this have been corrected by the volunteer?

 

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(BTW - only the record illustrated - above - has been subject to Volunteer Project "standardizing")

 

 

Jordi Kloosterboer

Even tho the ridings of yorkshire liked to act they were different countries, they were not, so I usually don't put down the ridings. ​I think the county is sufficient enough. I think the standardisation team agrees as I don't see riding divisions used there.

Gordon Collett

From all that I've seen and read about and done in that task, it is only for adding standards where they are missing, that is, getting rid of red exclamation points. It does not change the name displayed at all even though from comments on getsatisfaction before it closed and the occasional comment here by some people who don't understand place entry in Family Tree think they are.

 

However, if someone really sees a need to correct a display name and is confident enough to do so, it's easy to do. Like everywhere else in Family Tree, the person's name is a link even though it doesn't look like it:

 

Just click on it to open the summary card then jump to the person's Family Tree record:

 

Paul W

I guess for some reason I got it in my head that the volunteers were working from individual pages (like the one illustrated). I think I now accept this project is a general one on standardising place names, not connected to specific inputs, so they would not even be aware of such display names.