Can some 3 or 4 letter places of birth be considered acceptable?

Question

Working on 604 error code for 1800-1899.  I find many profiles with old 3 letter abbreviations  for state of birth.  Also see things like Eire, Qld and Que.  Could these be removed as exceptions/data base errors from the error reports

Answer 1

They can.

Eire must be excepted.

QLD, QUE can be excepted, but they shouldn't be. I don't know where are those two. I could google it, but that is not the point.

Some are already excluded, since there are too many of them (over 10K each), but they will get to errors report at one time (when most of current errors are corrected).

Comments

QLD is Queensland, Australia.

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I added Eire - 77 occurrences

I didn't add since they don't go into thousands.

QLD - 237 occurrences

QUE - 284 occurrences

Answer 2

If there are any other suggestions let me know, so I can check them.

Comments

In the Netherlands we have three-letter citynames like 'Urk', 'Oss', but in my opinion they should not be allowed when used wihout additional data: provincename and countryname. So valid locations would be 'Urk, Flevoland, Nederland' and 'Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland'.

So in general (Netherlands) citynames should be qualified by provincename and countryname.

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Other Counties to consider are the island nations in the Pacific of Fiji & Niue

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I added Fiji - 39 occurrences

Niue does't appear on Wikitree.