Challenge of the week: Clean up as many location names as possible [closed]

Question

Hi WikiTreers,

Will you join our "Data Doctors" Challenge? This week's challenge focuses on location fields.

Aleš has prepared a report of profiles from around the tree that have potential errors in their locations. These are usually simple typos that are easy to fix. But a thinking genealogist needs to give them a quick "reality check" and consider the intent of the original member and the sources before making any changes. Will you try some?

Click here for the list.

After making a change, click the "challenge tracker" button and then the edit the status. This will record a point. The member with the most points at 11:59pm EDT on Sunday night will get the badge and the bragging rights. But we'll all benefit from a neater, cleaner shared tree.

If you're participating, please post here to let us know. This helps us coordinate and cheer each other on. Or post if you have any questions about how to participate.

Thanks for helping!

Real-time tracking results: See your stats 
alongside other participants here.

Top 10 Participants

• Cheryl J. Hess - 2,088
• Rodney A. Long - 1,767
• Beverly J. Benfer - 942
• Graeme R. Olney - 633
• Linda J. Peterson - 483
• S L. Boulton - 440
• Esmé G. van der Westhuizen - 342
• Martha A. Leinroth - 333
• Hilary V. Gadsby - 330
• Anonymous Davis - 277

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https://tinyurl.com/weekchallenge  spreadsheet link 

All updated and ready to go. Below is a link on the G2G post explaining how to do Data Doctor Challenges with screenshots.

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/631771/data-doctor-challenge-guide 

Challenge Tracker

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I have a question.  On many locations, there is a large number in the birth and death locations, such as "Annapolis Royal, 1654145, Nova Scotia, Canada" such as [[Rice-6558]].  We get 605 and 635 "number in birth/death location".  What should be done with that number?  I don't know what it is, so I don't want to remove it, or just add it to the bio text area without some explanation.  Does anyone have an idea about how to handle those?   Thanks

I just found an answer to a question that someone else had posted about this problem.  Looks like the consensus is to just put it into the bio area since it seems to be GPS coordinates, but I only see one number usually.

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/694898/long-number-strings-in-locations

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The tracker is not updating!!!

Answer 1

Where's Tibbitts when you need him?

Comments

I updated. Holy cow. LOL

(just so you know, Aleš does it whenever he gets to it. I have to manually update the spreadsheet sometime after everyone can see it all got updated.)

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;D LOL

Answer 2

I'm back and I'm ready to help on this.

Answer 3

I'll try to clean up as many as I can.

Answer 4

Participating

Answer 5

I will work on some English ones if I have time.

Answer 6

I'm definitely keen to join!

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well I was not paying attention again , but I have been changing quite a few that were messed up for time frame or some that were abbreviated too so yay me

Answer 7

I’m game for some tidying. I’ll help where I can! :)

Answer 8

I’ll work on some of these

Answer 9

I'll jump in and try a few!

Answer 10

I'll chip away at some more Scottish ones.

Answer 11

I am participating.

Answer 12

I would like to help on this!

Answer 13

This is a sore point with me, so YES, I will join.

When I first joined wikitree someone criticized me for not putting USA or United States after the state names. Now I'm very aware of when that' appropriate or not by date. But I'm also aware of how many people in other countries abbreviate provinces or whatever and leave off the country names. It is starting to offend me. Sometimes I'm not sure where the location is.

So Yes, I will work on locations.

Answer 14

I'll do as many as I can fit in.

Answer 15

Yes, I’ve already fixed several.  Standard locations really help connect profiles and with sourcing.

Answer 16

I will work on the English ones when I can

Answer 17

Is anyone having trouble tracking right now? I am able to clean and save profiles, but not able to track them.

Thank you.

Comments

The tracker on the Wikitree+ Servers wasn't responding but is back on line

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Thank you Graeme