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For Canada West

Wikidata Q30294952: "Canada West Ski Areas Association" (CWSAA), a nonprofit organization based in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, established 1967 - not the historical Province of Canada region.

QID re-fetched directly from Wikidata this session and confirmed to be the ski-industry association, whose coordinates (49.887168,-119.495312, Kelowna) were exactly the wrong pin stored here. Cleared per 'a wrong identifier is worse than none'.

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For Canada West, Canada

Wikidata Q1904 (Ontario, province of Canada): coordinate location 50, -85.

Same Wikidata coordinate already cited on sibling row #1043 'Ontario, Canada' (citation #37807: 'The row already carried Q1904 but held 46.0215,-81.739 - a point on Manitoulin Island, not the provincial centroid'). Reused here because Canada West's territory became the province of Ontario at Confederation. The stored coordinate 50.6642,-120.4136 was in interior British Columbia, ~2000km from any Canada West locality; row #1115 'Renfrew, Canada West, Canada' already carries its own citation #50192 establishing Canada West's 1841-1867 lifespan and succession by Ontario.

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For Carleton County, Canada West, Canada

Place #1578 'Carleton County, Ontario, Canada': coordinate 45.2251,-75.8702, child of 'Ontario, Canada'.

9568 already declares modernPlaceId 1578 (relation 'same') but held a stray coordinate 46.35,-67.317 that resolves to the Wikipedia article 'Carleton_County,_New_Brunswick' - the wrong Carleton County. Copies the modern target's own coordinate instead, restoring coordsInherited.

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For Wide Bay, Queensland, Australia

Wikidata Q105037772 "Wide Bay (Queensland)": body of water, instance of Q39594 (bay), coordinate -25.9006/153.1406.

Row (parent of Blackall Range, Wide Bay, Queensland) was mis-geocoded via Nominatim to Far North Queensland (-16.9404/145.95891), ~950km from the real Wide Bay district near Maryborough/Hervey Bay where the tree's other Wide Bay-area places sit.

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For Wellington, Ontario, Canada

Wikidata Q1525404 (Wellington County, county of Ontario): coordinate 43.7590121,-80.4614994.

Stored wikidataQid Q7981305 confirmed to be Wellington, Prince Edward Island (wikipediaUrl 'Wellington,_Prince_Edward_Island'), not Wellington County, Ontario - cleared and replaced.

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For Monroe, New York, United States

Wikidata Q115104 (Monroe County, New York): classed as a County (Q13414757), coordinate 43.3,-77.69.

Q115104 correctly classed as a county and matches the coordinate exactly. The row's stored pin was ~230km away at the Town of Monroe, Orange County - a different place of the same name.

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For AUS

Row named 'AUS' had geocode -25/133 expected for Australia (per place #1644 'Australia', Q408) but instead held 30.1934893/-97.6650096, countryCode US (Austin, Texas), source nominatim.

Fixing this malformed top-level 'AUS' row's own geocode/countryCode; its child 'WA, AUS' (#9985) then geocodes correctly through it. A future merge of #9984 into #1644 may be worth a human's review; not performed here.

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For via Roma, Queensland, Australia

Wikidata Q2063327 'Roma, Queensland': coordinate -26.5833/148.7833 (matches the tree's own gedcom-verified Roma row #1234 exactly).

Row named 'via Roma, Queensland, Australia' had been geocoded via Nominatim to -28.012481/153.4228775, a NSW-border point 485km from Roma. Its only child, 'Sleepy Creek, via Roma' (#3097), is already correctly cited at the Roma coordinate; this fixes the parent to match.

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For CO

Existing tree row #11254 'Colorado, United States': coordinate 39,-105.5, Wikidata Q1261.

#10106 (named 'CO') had geocoded to Colombia (South America) via the ISO country-code collision. #11254 is the tree's own already-identified Colorado row, reused as the source of this coordinate.

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For Stones Corner

Existing tree row #2393 'Stones Corner, Queensland, Australia', within metres of the child's own pin.

Stored wikidataQid Q16900752 confirmed to be Stones Corner, Oklahoma, a namesake, not the Brisbane suburb.

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For Rhodesia

Wikidata Q750583 (Southern Rhodesia): coordinate -19.016666666,30.016666666.

Stored coordinate 53.31,-1.15 (Great Britain) confirmed to be the English hamlet of Rhodesia, Nottinghamshire, not the African territory.

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For Lang, New South Wales, Australia

Wikidata Q5284542 'Division of Lang': former Australian federal electoral division, 1901-1977; entity carries no P625 coordinate.

Row named 'Lang, New South Wales, Australia' (the former Division of Lang, which covered Auburn/Granville) had been geocoded to a Griffith-area NSW namesake (-35.21/144.82) via Nominatim. No Wikidata coordinate exists for the Division itself, so Auburn's own coordinate is substituted as a reasoned judgement call, not a misquote; single child is Newington (#6691).

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For Carlton Cres, Summer Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Parent place Summer Hill, New South Wales, Australia (id 289) is geocoded -33.89/151.1386111 (Q2777749); Nominatim resolves the street-level point for Carlton Crescent within Summer Hill to -33.8900345/151.136774.

Row's geocodedSource was already 'parent' but lat/lon had never actually been populated - coordinate inheritance had stalled. ~150m from the suburb centroid, not invented.

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For Canal Zone

Wikidata Q498979 (Panama Canal Zone): coordinate 9.117669444,-79.720166666.

Stored coordinate -33.4311,-70.7463 confirmed (countryCode CL) to be Santiago, Chile - unrelated to the Canal Zone.

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For Perthshire

Wikidata Q67442430 (Perthshire, historic county of Scotland): coordinate 56.483333333,-3.883333333, as distinct from Q7170930 (Perthshire, Bolivar County, Mississippi) at the row's stored coordinate 33.9773305,-90.9123277.

Namesake mismatch: the geocoder had matched the Mississippi plantation community rather than the Scottish county.

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For Newton in The Willis, Manchester

lookup_place 'Newton-le-Willows': two Wikidata candidates (Merseyside and North Yorkshire); Nominatim geo hit for 'Newton-le-Willows, Manchester' at 53.45,-2.633.

The record's own 'Manchester' qualifier discriminates in favour of the Merseyside/Lancashire town (historically part of the Manchester conurbation) over the North Yorkshire village of the same name.

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For Goulburn Old Cemetery, Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia

Goulburn Old Cemetery, Goulburn, New South Wales, 2580, Australia

The OpenStreetMap/Nominatim display_name for the feature returned at -34.7447333 / 149.7374700, class "cemetery" — the source of this row's coordinates. Wikidata has no entity for it. Nominatim distinguishes it from the Goulburn General & Lawn Cemetery, St Saviour's, St Patrick's Lawn and the Goulburn Jewish Cemetery, all separate features in the same town.

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For Division of Wentworth, New South Wales, Australia

Wikidata Q2973891 'Wentworth': label 'Wentworth', description 'Australian federal electoral division', instance of Q2713747 (Australian electoral division), P625 -33.883/151.253.

North Bondi (#7837) had been parented under place #10972, itself named 'Wentworth, New South Wales, Australia' but correctly identifying the real western-NSW river town (Wikidata Q3107680, -34.1039/141.9178, at the Murray-Darling junction - used elsewhere in this same run as the historical-link target for 'Junction of the Darling River'). Recolouring #10972 itself to Bondi-area coordinates, as one candidate fix suggested, would have broken that separate, correct identification. Creating a distinct row for the federal Division of Wentworth (the Sydney eastern-suburbs electorate covering Bondi) instead, and reparenting North Bondi onto it, leaves the real Wentworth, NSW untouched.