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:You may wish to view Vona Williams response to the concerns about the deficiencies in both the catalogue of census films in English counties which a group of contributors raised for four parishes in [[Sussex Census]] but identified generally in English counties. With some unaffected contributions as an exception contributors have suspended contribution for various counties until FamilySearch has resolved it's issues with catalogue material for England and the available forms of the FS Library film collections. Despite our original response which did not appreciate the significance of the problem contributors had raised the matter was referred to Vona Williams and we are pleased that our local knowledge has assisted to begin to resolve a technical issue for presentation of census microfilm in England. If memory serves this has been raised in earlier years (prior to Family Search Wiki) by one or two of the group who had sought to contribute this year in at least 5 counties. We await engineering and catalogue resolution and suggest that wiki contribution is liely to be unproductive until this has been overcome. | :You may wish to view Vona Williams response to the concerns about the deficiencies in both the catalogue of census films in English counties which a group of contributors raised for four parishes in [[Sussex Census]] but identified generally in English counties. With some unaffected contributions as an exception contributors have suspended contribution for various counties until FamilySearch has resolved it's issues with catalogue material for England and the available forms of the FS Library film collections. Despite our original response which did not appreciate the significance of the problem contributors had raised the matter was referred to Vona Williams and we are pleased that our local knowledge has assisted to begin to resolve a technical issue for presentation of census microfilm in England. If memory serves this has been raised in earlier years (prior to Family Search Wiki) by one or two of the group who had sought to contribute this year in at least 5 counties. We await engineering and catalogue resolution and suggest that wiki contribution is liely to be unproductive until this has been overcome. | ||
:It is probably the third or fourth decade of suggesting that adoption of a North American spelling to describe an international catalogue of microfilmed record collections has always been poorly received by genealogists and family historians. Many of us have raised this and appreciate that these things tend to be set in stone in Utah but we do not spell in that way in the rest of the international English speaking world and it is perhaps time for a rethink of the way in which the | :It is probably the third or fourth decade of suggesting that adoption of a North American spelling to describe an international catalogue of microfilmed record collections has always been poorly received by genealogists and family historians. Many of us have raised this and appreciate that these things tend to be set in stone in Utah but we do not spell in that way in the rest of the international English speaking world and it is perhaps time for a rethink of the way in which the FamilySearch Library presents a catalogue to those outside North America. I believe that it is accepted that wiki pages should be spelled in the language of the country; it is a pity that the FamilySearch Research wiki locks in North American spelling in such a way! [[User:Crescunt|Crescunt]] 14:44, 30 September 2011 (UTC) | ||
::Thanks for the suggestion Crescunt. Is Vona Williams the person behind the username [[User:Chichgirl|Chichgirl]]? I am no expert on the FHLC, but I agree that it does make sense that pages about English places and topics are written with local spellings. I recently changed many references in the wiki from "neighboring parishes" to "neighbouring parishes". | ::Thanks for the suggestion Crescunt. Is Vona Williams the person behind the username [[User:Chichgirl|Chichgirl]]? I am no expert on the FHLC, but I agree that it does make sense that pages about English places and topics are written with local spellings. I recently changed many references in the wiki from "neighboring parishes" to "neighbouring parishes". | ||
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