Names, blanks, typos

In conjunction with our performance evaluations, we've reviewed some of the recent checks. In general, you're doing a good job. Here are a few things we've noticed that many people are struggling with:

• Names - Many of you regularly forget to change the name to match the manuscript. Some people help themselves remember to do this by always retyping the name, no matter what. Habits like this make it more difficult to forget something.
• Blanks - Please DO NOT leave any of the fields blank that have information on the manuscript. It looks like sometimes, the inputter ends up on the wrong field because of auto advance and misses some data or types it in the wrong field. Sometimes the inputter is looking at the wrong line of the manuscript. Other times, it's hard to read. If you need help reading something, please ask! Do not leave it out.
• Typos - Typos happen to even the best typist. We would like to minimize them.

It's all right to take a few seconds and scan over what you just entered to make sure it looks correct.

Input what you see

We've noticed that several people are leaving information out. Please input what you see. This has mostly been a problem on the death screen. Even if a word is difficult to read, you must type something. Do not type one word of a pair and leave the other out. You may ask for help if you can't read something. Please type all the information in the appropriate fields.

Missing or incomplete Mil Info

Some of you have noticed that previously input data have been given quality code 1, but there is nothing in the Mil Info to support this. If you find this, please email me the RecId, so I can investigate. It usually means there is Mil Info that exists somewhere but is missing from the screens.

In one case, the soldier was a VA pension and the Mil Info was on paper. In another case, for some reason the Mil Info just didn't upload correctly. We should be able to fix these problems.

Please don't delete the data. Let me know about the problem, and I will try to get it fixed for you.