Don't let's have inconsistency between pages - follow the New Pedigree View format!
Sorry, but I still fail to understand how some users like the new format for displaying marriage events. Hopefully, the New Pedigree View will continue to keep to the original format of displaying the event between the couple. After all, the marriage was between the individuals, so why show it under one of the participants?
What looks better - bearing in mind the event is a shared one?
New Pedigree View:
New Person Page:
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What I like about the new page is its potential for showing all couple events on the detail page instead of just one, its potential for treating couple events just like all other data on the details page (such as birth, alternate name, residence), and its potential for allowing the discontinuation of the separate couple relationship pop up altogether (This last one is a bit of a stretch.)
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The logic can go either way: if the marriage is between the spouses, then it by definition separates them. On the pedigree view, this is not really a problem, because there's nothing immediately above or below either person, so the separation doesn't in turn create a connection elsewhere. On the person page, however, the children are immediately below their parents, so if the marriage separates the couple, it also connects the mother to her children -- but not the father. He's somewhere well above everything: off in the clouds. If the marriage is below the couple, then it groups them together, and creates a separation from their children, making it easier to see people's roles in the family.
Another way to look at it is that the pedigree view is a summary. It doesn't even include birthplaces, never mind things like residences or other names. Thus, it makes sense for it to also summarize the relationship, with just a single event displayed. A profile's details page, on the other hand, is supposed to have all of the details. It would be good if this included the details about the person's relationships, too, by listing every event entered. As Gordon says, having the event below the couple makes room for this to happen, hopefully.
So all in all, I think it makes sense for the pedigree chart to be arranged differently than the family members section.
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