Data Completeness or Source Tagging
Good morning.
Working on a family yesterday, and I saw a new-to-me callout in Source Tagging:
I like the idea. This person has been elusive in the censuses, but I certainly don't object to a reminder to look again.
I am wondering if Source Tagging is the correct category since it seems to fall in the realm of Data Completeness.
Profile G4NX-F4H
Thanks for reviewing.
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I think that where it is, it feels like a statement-of-the-obvious nag to me.
I feel that it would be more appropriate if it were part of the Research Helps, alongside messages such as "Couple May Have Children - There is evidence of the marriage but no children are listed".
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I don't really care where this is, but I really like this kind of nagging. Years ago I had a spreadsheet with a long list of relatives and census years along the top to try to keep track of who I had found in which census and who I still had to look for. It was kind of a mess. This kind of automatic notation that a census source was missing would have been very helpful.
What I would not want for nagging is a "you have a census source, why haven't you put it in as a residence for that year and tagged it?" since I don't feel it is necessary to add multiple identical residences for people that never moved from one census to the next.
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I like the reminder too. Unfortunately, the profile where I first saw it is for a VERY elusive person/family, and I had not been able to find the missing censuses.
But, I don't think Source Tagging is the correct category since it's not a source tagging issue. Can't tag a source that isn't there.
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Where it really belongs is a new fifth category called "Source Completeness."
It's too wordy to be a regular Research Help and would end up being hidden or hide too many other items since only 3 research helps show unless you click Show All. Being in the Quality Score section keeps it out of the way but handy and much easier than going one more time to the Sources tab and digging through a long list of sources to see if this was the person that has all the census sources attached or the person that is still missing some.
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Thank you for your input. This was implemented last week. And then we wait to see what you all think :)
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Great Feedback!
I like Gordon's suggestion of a new category called Source Completeness, though I worry about too many categories.
One idea we are considering is renaming Source Tagging to Source Documentation.
Another idea is collapsing Source Tagging and Source Consistency into a single category called Source Documentation.
Thoughts?
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I like the idea of a single category for Source Documentation.
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"Source" and "documentation" can be synonyms, so how about just a category for Documentation?
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