Tips Nov 9
There has been a number of emails in the Data Doctor thread that deal with some interesting things that trigger “suggestions.” So I thought it might be helpful to list a few of these so you know what not to do when entering data.
Do not use location abbreviations. CA can be Canada, California, Central America, and possibly other things around the world. So please spell out your country and other parts of a location. There are two exceptions to this. UK and USA are evidently ok and do not trigger a suggestion.
Find A Grave seems to trigger a number of suggestions. I do not want to start a discussion about should we even have any of them. There are threads for that out in G2G. But my tip is… There were a number of technical discussions about the format of the reference but one thing that seems to trigger a suggestion is dropping in a URL for a related person on a profile where that Find A Grave reference is out of sink to the name on the profile. Steven Tibbets summed up how this works with this note:
Original: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 03 November 2018), memorial page for Sgt Charles E. Mower (29 Nov 1924–3 Nov 1944), Find A Grave Memorial no. 8194218, citing Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Manila, Capital District, National Capital Region, Philippines ; Maintained by Find A Grave .
edited to: Find A Grave, database and images (findagrave.com : accessed 03 November 2018), memorial page for Sgt Charles E. Mower (29 Nov 1924–3 Nov 1944), Find A Grave Memorial no. 8194218, citing Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Manila, Capital District, National Capital Region, Philippines ; Maintained by Find A Grave . {{FindAGrave|8194218|sameas=yes/no}}
The first part is changed to avoid the 571 error. Answering yes will also do this but answering no will not.
sameas=no avoids a 572 error.
sameas=yes makes it ignore all other references to findagrave and only compare that one to the profile.
I don’t use the template as shown in Steve’s example. I copy and paste the entire URL and have so far not had the suggestions appear. But I also make sure to explain that the URL is for the wife, child, or whoever I am using as a resource for that profile. If a suggestion should then appear I know I can safely mark it as a false error.