Thank you, Jim, for posting this. I have upvoted: as you know, I support the proposal, assuming the proposed new database suggestions are implemented.
It may help to spell out a little more the background to the proposal. Aleš is planning to introduce a new set of database suggestions for profiles where there is no birth or death location. The current guidance on location fields encourages members to include at least a continent in the location field where there is sufficient evidence to make this reasonable, but not enough for a country. Fair enough, though people rarely add just a continent to the location field (I confess I have never done so myself).
But there are quite a number of profiles where there is no good basis for determining which continent they were born or died in. If the new suggestions are introduced, well-meaning but less experienced WikiTree members seeking to clear suggestions may simply insert a guess. As a Mediator and occasional Mentor I know this is likely to happen, with some well-intentioned members operating at high speed. The result is the addition of misleading information.
Overall, these profiles are a minority of the tens of millions of WikiTree profiles, but the numbers add up, and they need to be catered for.
Adding uncertain information based on guesses goes against WikiTree guidance. See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Uncertain_Locations. Where anything entered would be just a guess, under current guidance the location field should be left blank.
For pre-1700 profiles, uncertain information should not be added to location fields unless there is a basis in a reliable source which makes it reasonable to include it. The existence of that basis should be clear in the biography, if necessary using a research note.
One alternative to Jim‘s proposal is to mark the new suggestions as false, with a comment that there is insufficient evidence to give even an uncertain location. That is illogical, but it would avoid the real risk of others wasting time duplicating research efforts, and, perhaps more important, of less experienced, well-meaning WikiTree members adding guesses as they seek to clear database suggestions.