Flagging a change that would decrease the quality score
Would it be possible to put up a warning box if someone attempts to make a profile/couple relationship change that would have the effect of decreasing the quality score?
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Hi Mandy,
Such a feature would be really helpful.
Thanks for the suggestion.
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But - there may be times when a change is needed that will reduce the score.
In the early pilot, we discussed avoiding making changes just to get 5 stars. The same applies here. For example, if there is a record attached showing death and burial information, but it's for another person with the same name, we need to detach that record, and the score may go down, but the quality of the profile will be better.
My two cents.
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That makes sense, but I'm not suggesting the change is disallowed, just made the subject of a warning message (which could presumably be dismissed with a suitable reason statement). So many posts in the Community talk about ill-considered and unsourced changes being made to previously solid profiles - the quality score's going down would be an objective, if (as you say) imperfect, aid to catching this at source.
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I'm just suggesting that care be taken with how the alert message is worded. We've already seen comments about the wording of the message on profiles with a High rating. People have been concerned that they are being steered away from working on those profiles when work is still needed.
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@MandyShaw1 Thank you for your feedback. Your suggestion has been noted.
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This might even make people think before they submit the sort of abusive updates discussed here https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/156688/infant-is-continually-being-added-as-a-spouse-to-my-g-grandmother#latest. The current safeguards (alerts etc.) don't affect the actual navigation so can be ignored by the super-careless. (Obviously, if the offenders are using an API, that would need to take data quality awareness into account too - otherwise, there is a danger of a two-tier system where 3rd parties can merrily bypass all FS' integrity initiatives.)
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Re my last comment, see also
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This recent thread https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/164127/is-the-user-treebuilding-project-taking-the-tree-forward-or-wasting-time makes the point well that allowing APIs to bypass DQ checks has the potential to cause major damage.
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