Background. There are four cemetery reports generated weekly and hosted on WT+. There's two for USBH, which I'm unfamiliar with and not intending to bring up today, and two which I'm focusing on:
- Cemetery Report. This one primarily helps identify categories on WT that need to be created or fixed.
- Find A Grave Report. This one primarily helps identify profiles that could be categorized into a WT cemetery category.
Cemeteries progress through stages from "missing" to eventually "linked" (on the former report) or "complete" (on the latter report). There's several cemetery exception statuses that indicate issues may be present, but for this question I'm focusing on the "multiple" status. Multiple indicates that that there's a profile in the category where the category ID on WikiTree and the cemetery ID on Find A Grave don't match.
This is really helpful for easily spotting profiles that were accidentally added to "St. James Church Cemetery" when the person is really buried in "St. James Old Church Cemetery" a quarter mile down the road. Or when there's 8 different Odd Fellows cemeteries in a county and the wrong one was entered.
Disclaimer. There's some... sincerely-held... opinions on Find A Grave and on categorization preferences. Let's try to leave those at the door for this discussion.
Question. Folks who have been disinterred and reinterred – e.g., repatriated casualties of war, cities that shut down and moved entire cemeteries to reclaim land, etc. – will quite often only have one memorial and be placed in both the old and new cemetery categories. This will force the cemetery into "multiple" status permanently, forever preventing it from getting to "linked", "partial", or "complete" statuses. It's also a beacon drawing in attention to a fix that's not needed. Is there a technological remedy available? Perhaps something like the sameas=true param that lets WT+ know "this is fine, a human has reviewed/confirmed it"?
