Is there a way to locate profiles with a misspelled location?

Question

Occasionally when I'm typing in a location I see a location I've previously typed in wrongly in the dropdown.  I'm wondering if there's any way to find the profile(s) with the wrong spelling without just looking at all my profiles?  Is there a "Suggestion" number or numbers which deal with locations?

Comments

Are you familiar with the default page for Suggestions, Dave? That page has various search parameters available, including location.

If you have a specific misspelling that you want to find, you should be able to search for it from the default Suggestions page.

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Yes, but I figured I'd ask first to save time.  Thanks!

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I presumed you did, Dave, but figured that there may be other members who do not know about all the functionality of the Suggestions report!

Answer 1

Yes, Location errors are 600's.

600 Location

Location errors are split into 3 groups as follows: 601-630 Birth location, 631-660 Death location, 661-690 Marriage location. Some errors can be defined by users Space:Database_Errors_Definition.

• 601, 631, 661 Wrong word in location: Text is not a location. If the location is not known, location field should be empty.
• 602, 632, 662 "Y" location: Y is not a location. I this locations were part of GEDCOM imports (Maybe some error in GEDCOM format) and never corrected. Checking also for yes.
• 603, 633, 663 USA used too early: USA is used before the country existed. Old name should be used.
• 604, 634, 664 Too short location: Short locations are not allowed, since they can be ambiguous. Also people from other parts of the world don't understand them. For now Minimum Length is 4 characters with exceptions like USA, UK. American states should be at least in form PA, USA which is longer than 4 letters.
• 605, 635, 665 Number in location: In locations there is only a number. It is often a date entered in the wrong field.
• 606, 636, 666 Bogus location: This location is inserted as location by autocomplete operations of some softwares or websites.
• 607, 637, 667 Misspelled word:
• 608, 638, 668 Misspelled country:
• 609, 639, 669 Wrong character:
• 610, 640, 670 Location in UPPERCASE:
• 611, 641, 671 Location in lowercase:

Comments

Thanks for laying them out.  I noticed a location ending with Usa which I'd prefer to be USA, but I'm not sure if this would show up in one of those or not.  I'll have to check ti out.

Answer 2

Not all spelling errorrs are caught (yet). One can also analyse location spellings on Wikitree+: Analyse - Location.

As an example, here is the analysis for the city Zierikzee in the Netherlands.