TIP of the day: Why set a community tag - correcting information

MJ. Smith
MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,111
edited November 20 in English Forum

1. Open the REB to Mt 27:56 and you will find Mary of Magdala shown incorrectly as Mary, Mother of James.

This is not a tagging error that will be corrected. Bradley Grainger of Faithlife explained it this way.

There is no tagging.

Biblical Referents are only tagged in the Greek and Hebrew texts. Those tags are carried over to English Bibles that have reverse interlinears.

When a Bible doesn't have a reverse interlinear, the context menu tries to guess, based on the word you clicked on, and the people (or places or things) the system knows exist in that verse. Usually, when there are multiple possibilities, all of them are shown (e.g., right-click "Gate" in Neh 12:39 in REB; cf. ESV). I'm not sure why the context menu doesn't show both Marys in this verse.

To reduce false positives, this "guess" is only shown for proper names, not common words such as "mother".

2. To obtain accurate information, you need to "correct" the systems guess with a Community Tag:

3. Now you can select the correct Bible Referent in the Context Menu to place correct information at your fingertips.

Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

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