Philip as you will probably have seen, the list you refer to dated 23/3/12 was withdrawn shortly after it was put on the web site and the page dated 15/3/12. with only four files of yours listed, put back in its place. If you click to 'refresh' in your browser you will see that http://www.freebmd.org.uk/SuspectFilesComments.html is dated 15/3/12 http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/FreeBMD-Admins/2012-03/1332494791 refers to this. At the moment transcribers should not worry about this report unless their syndicate co-ordinators choose to bring specific parts of it to their attention. Jeff list admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "philip clarke" <pr.clarke@talktalk.net> To: "'Allan Raymond'" <allan_raymond@btinternet.com>; <freebmd-admins@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 9:30 AM Subject: RE: Suspect File List Allen, I had five files listed as suspect on the first list. I checked them and agreed that I'd made errors, corrected then and resubmitted them prior to Handoff. They will be updated in time, so I have no problems with them reappearing in the second list. They will (should) disappear after the database has been updated. However, in the second list, the one dated 23/3/12, I had about 315 files of mine listed, which is about 75% of what I've submitted. So I started to check them newest first. I don't accept that the first four were invalid, but I could be wrong, so I emailed QA-cood as stated in the list, stating that I regarded them as valid. On that limited sample of four files, it looked like valid statements such as #COMMENT handwritten amendment of crossed out entry, etc, were being tagged as erroneous. Possibly a #COMMENT(3) handwritten addition of surname. If I do have another 311 files with erroneous use of #COMMENT in them I will gladly correct them, but why should I have to manual check that number of files just to validate the FreeBMD software. The facility to check files for invalid use of #COMMENT lines is incredibly useful/valuable to the project. I fully accept its value. However, it aught to be reasonably reliable/accurate. Philip -----Original Message----- From: Allan Raymond [mailto:allan_raymond@btinternet.com] Sent: 23 March 2012 15:37 To: freebmd-admins@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: Suspect File List Phil To some extent this report is being tested before making it live. Details of the new report was sent to Coordinators only on 16 March with various advice given on the purpose of the report and what to do if files such as yours were shown in error. I'm not aware the report was generally made known to our transcribers, how did you get to know about the report? We have identified some of our transcribers are not following the instructions on how to deal with alias or alternative names and this report was produced for that reason. Whilst the report include some files which are compliant with our instructions and hence are shown in the report in error, these are far outweighed by the number of files which are correctly included because they are errant. The size of the report being so large and causing problems has been mentioned by some of coordinators (myself included) seems to be due to the type of browser being used. This should be a short term problem once the number of files in the report start reducing due to them being corrected or excluded if they were shown in the report in error. Allan Raymond From: Phil <phil.osbourn@ntlworld.com> >To: freebmd-admins@rootsweb.com >Sent: Friday, 23 March 2012, 9:03 >Subject: Suspect File List > > > I have just checked the comments-suspect file list at > [1]http://www.freebmd.org.uk/SuspectFilesComments.html and find that it > erroneously includes all my files with correct alias comments; i.e. it has > picked out all my "#COMMENT(2)" lines and included the message "Alias > comment on only one entry at line". > Not only that but the page is so huge that it took ages to load and crashed > my browser on the first load attempt. Aren't changes tested before making > them live? > Phil > > > FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins FreeBMD http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEBMD-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message