As I research, I attach every scrap of data to events. Over time an event can amass a significant number of links. E.g. Birth information from every census, draft card, multiple obituaries, etc. That said, when I print a report for distribution I may not want to include every source citation for the birth, just the 3 or 4 that are most relevant. If the Private Flag in the CitationLink table was exposed in the Quality section of the Citation panel, and an option provided in reporting, we could optionally exclude citations of less relevance. I also wish the Quality section (i.e. the CitationLInk table) included a text field for comments about how a citation impacts the fact it is linked to. (I could be less of an extreme splitter if this was true.)
The “Detail Comments” is where you add information about the quality of the source. They can be included in the report source citations. Being able to mark a source private has been reported to development.
Thank you for the reply. Yes - I understand about the “Detail Comments”. But this is also why I am an “extreme splitter”. From a death certificate I have information about both the birth and death of an individual. If I attach the same citation to both the birth fact and the death fact, then anything I enter in Detail Comments will be included in both the birth footnote and death footnote. I may need to comment how the birth date is incorrect, but I don’t want that note in the death footnote. Hence, I create a second citation. If there was a text field in the CitationLink table, I could use the same citation. In the meantime, I will continue to “split”.