Quality Score Data Completeness Feedback
While it may be informative to the user to note when a day is missing from a date, many historical records due not include a date. Or that a city is missing from a location as many historical records are grouped by county or state only. (or other international grouping.)
The more important issues include: no date or no standardized date is present and no location or no standardized location is present.
I would recommend adjusting the details listed.
Leslie Edmunds
P.S. I have noticed that having only a standardized date and only a standardized location improves the responses for hints over having a user date and standardized date and a user location and standard location. While that should not be true in my experience with every patron and research activity, it is true.
As such, the lack of standardization should be in the quality score. Thus giving the user another incentive to standardize.
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I have noticed that having only a standardized date and only a standardized location improves the responses for hints over having a user date and standardized date and a user location and standard location. While that should not be true in my experience with every patron and research activity, it is true.
This is not true. The data quality checker, like many other routines, uses only the linked standard and does not care in the least what displays on the profile page. Likewise the hinting routine looks only at the linked standard and having additional information in the displayed text does not affect the hinting routine at all. Users should never be instructed or encouraged to remove additional data from a data or place in the name of "standardizing." This place is standardized even though it contains extremely important information lacking from the standard:
If it were not standardized it would look like this:
This date is standardized even though it includes additional information which will not influence any Family Tree routine including hinting:
You might be being deceived by a feature that preserves processing power to improve the performance of Family Tree. If a profile has been dormant, the hinting engine will ignore it. It is only when there is a sign that a user is actively working on a profile that the hinting routine will then kick in and find hints for that profile. That is why you can often come to a profile with no hints, do any kind of editing such as improving a name, date, or place anywhere on the profile or adding new information then suddenly have a bunch of hints appear. Adding additional information to a date or place to improve it while keeping it linked to an inadequate standard will trigger just as many hints as degrading a profile by removing information to get a date or place to be only that inadequate standard.
Backing up to your first comments, we already get a notice if a standard is missing. A rather blatant one:
Notice that the birth and death place are identical. The difference is that the birth place is not linked to a standard while the death place is linked to the inadequate standard of "Strønstad, Nordland, Norway."
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@Leslie Edmunds I'm a little confused. Can you clarify what you are suggesting?
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No reply. Closing discussion.
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