ERROR REPORT: Placename Standardization?
It appears the placename standardization algorithm has now been applied to the locality search pages. If it starts with New, it must be the same place.
See - for example - this screen snip from the New York USA search page, with links to New Zealand, New England, and New Spain. Not to mention the link to "See All {CLEANEDPLACE}..."
Similarly, for New Jersey USA:
New Mexico USA
North Dakota conflated with Northern Ireland?
I'm glad my home state of Georgia is not conflated with the country of the same name, but it seems to be sadly neglected:
You get the idea. There's a real problem with the current layout of the locality search pages.
@N Tychonievich please and thanks.
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That's ....impressively bad. I hope they can revert it quickly, before the sarcastic blogs start getting written.
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South Carolina gets a double whammy:
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And clicking that "{CleanedPlace}" link, from the SC page, takes one to a strange list that includes South Africa, South Dakota, and the South Seas. https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/learning-center-search/?q=South%20Carolina
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Thank you for bringing this to our attention. It has been escalated and I will report back when I have some answers. Thanks!
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Thanks, @Stephanie V.
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Any news, please? It's been over a month since my first report. Thank you.
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I'm so very sad to see that this problem has not moved a millimeter since I reported it in May 2023. https://www.familysearch.org/search/location/united-states-of-america/north-dakota
https://www.familysearch.org/search/location/united-states-of-america/north-carolina
Is there any hope these might ever be fixed? Thank you.
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@Áine Ní Donnghaile I'm not sure why this issue hasn't been addressed. Let me look into it. Sam 🙂
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@Áine Ní Donnghaile I heard back from engineering. This issue got dropped somewhere along the lines so thank you for bringing it up again. They have created a ticket in their system and will work on fixing it. I'm not sure where it hits their priority list but I am watching the ticket so I can see it progress. I'm so sorry this didn't get created sooner. We dropped the ball 🙄
Sam
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Thanks @Sam Sulser.
There is an issue in that we are not supposed to bump our threads for attention, but things get lost if we don't become the squeaky wheel. It's difficult to know just how long we should wait before asking again without running the risk of violating the community guidelines.
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I wouldn't say asking for an update is thread bumping. It would be thread bumping if we had provided an update and someone just wanted to keep going on about the issue that provided no useful information about it. If you haven't seen any reply in a week or so, I would ask for an update. In notice your @mentions as well, so those can help. Keeps us on our toes. We are working really hard to get responses and actual resolution as fast as we can.
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If you scroll back, you'll see I did ask after a month, with no reaction/action. Guess I need to squeak louder. Thanks.
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