To be fair, Steve wasn't complaining about trees, but a specific
dataset. I think we all agree, trees are dodgy at best. (It doesn't help
that the various tree-hosting sites don't AFAIK have any way of
recording how _reliable_ you consider a "fact" [or its source] to be; I
don't _think_ the GeDCom standard does, and as that's what most use for uploads, I can't really blame them. [Many home genealogical _softwares_
_do_ have a "quality" field: for example, the one I use, Brother's
Keeper, has [for sources rather than facts - a "fact" can have several sources, of differing quality]: 0 ["Unreliable"], 1 ["Questionable"], 2 ["Secondary or fairly reliable"], and 3 ["Primary or very reliable"].
Others, I'm sure, have similar, but no automatic way of _sharing_ that field.)
On 16/08/2020 14:39, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
To be fair, Steve wasn't complaining about trees, but a specific
dataset. I think we all agree, trees are dodgy at best. (It doesn't
help that the various tree-hosting sites don't AFAIK have any way of >>recording how _reliable_ you consider a "fact" [or its source] to be;
I don't _think_ the GeDCom standard does, and as that's what most use
for uploads, I can't really blame them. [Many home genealogical >>_softwares_ _do_ have a "quality" field: for example, the one I use, >>Brother's Keeper, has [for sources rather than facts - a "fact" can
have several sources, of differing quality]: 0 ["Unreliable"], 1 >>["Questionable"], 2 ["Secondary or fairly reliable"], and 3 ["Primary
or very reliable"]. Others, I'm sure, have similar, but no automatic
way of _sharing_ that field.)
But surely your rating in your quality field is only of meaning to you.
I don't care how reliable or otherwise you think your data ia, if I
choose to "take" it from you I will make my own judgement about it. I
very rarely accept information from other people's trees without
checking Sources myself. If others aren't so bothered ... well, I was
going to say "who cares?" but I suppose most of us DO care about the
amount of bogus information which is put about.
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