Proposal rationales

Some of my thinking originated as below, it has since developed.

This discussion is to refine and clarify "project rationales."

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the issue

There is a quality criticism of online family trees in general and of Geni in particular. We can say, after five years of the curating program and the use of Master Profiles, that the quality (accuracy, coherence, sourcing) of Geni is vastly improved and compares favorably with Ancestry & FamilySearch trees; but quality is not good enough, quickly enough, and far reaching enough.

So it's past time to try some additional tools. Let's put the power of collaboration to work improving accuracy.

a proposed solution

There have been "profile - centric" suggestions to designate "quality" Geni profiles, but perhaps it's easiest (technically) to identify Quality Profiles (QPs) through Geni projects. But not a "regular" Geni project: a special one.

Let's call them "Geni Special Collections."

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Input received:

- based on morel 's proposal (see "A Proposed Model to Make Work" - http://www.geni.com/discussions/153591)
- based on system analysis by Dan Cornett. Dan, would you be kind enough to summarize your thoughts on this discussion?
- in curator-only discussions. Will try to summarize, address & incorporated points raised there in the next proposal draft

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