Talk:FamilySearch Indexing: US, Iowa—1925 State Census, Project Updates

Batch Returned on Arbitration.

Are you tried of seeing Batch Returned on Arbitration notations for this project? Well, here'a the most likely reason: The instructions clearly say to index only the main census page. The Navtivity and Military service pages are to be marked as "No Extractable Data". At least half the batches I've arbitrated have been the latter, incorrectly marked. When the arbitrator marks them "No Extractable Data" and returns the batch, the indexer ends up with a Batch Returned notation on their abritration list.

Reading the arbitration related dialogs, this is one of the most frustrating occurances for indexers and in this case could be largely avoided by reading and following the instructions.

To FSI; you could help the problem by putting a reminder message that pops up each time somebody requests one of these index batches.

(Contributed by an arbitrator looking for less work and a more efficient process for both indexers and arbitrators.)