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{{Third-party plugin}}
{{man warn|This tool is of limited use for Gramps 5.x series.|Please read the [[Place_completion_tool#Issues|Issues]] section}}
The wiki page duly notes that this tool is "of limited use" in the 5.x series of Gramps. But as a new user--apparently my recent install was of 4.2.2, not sure why--I'd say even that warning is too mild. As far as I can tell from reading the issues and doing Google searches, this tool only has one small piece of functionality of any value in Gramps 4. Here are my suggestions for both documentation and product; because I'm new, I'd like someone more experienced to give feedback and comment:
Just my two cents; I've never seen this tool work yet, so just going by what others have written. Sources: [http://gramps.1791082.n4.nabble.com/Place-Completion-Tool-td4666731.html], [https://www.reddit.com/r/gramps/comments/7q7qmy/placecompletion_tool/] Thanks, [[User:Reed|Reed]] ([[User talk:Reed|talk]]) 16:57, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
:: >>> '' Shipping a product feature that's 75% broken just confuses noobs like me and wastes other people's time. ''
:: '''This Third party addon is not shipped with Gramps'''; users choose to optionally install it via the addon manager. As such the third party addon comes with very limited support in the form of this support page eg: Please see [[Place_completion_tool#Issues]]. [[User:Sam888|Sam888]] ([[User talk:Sam888|talk]])
::: Adding my two cents as a user: I have used this extensively for the sole purpose of adding lat/lon to existing places. Places were created using the enclosed structure without lat/lon data and this tool updated the lat/lon for a large set of places (all places without a lat/lon within a US state) in one pass. In 4.2 the editing in the Actions window on MacOS did not work, which made using the tool challenging, but this was fixed in 5.x {{Third-party pluginbug|10004}}{{man warn|This tool is of limited use for Gramps 5.x seriesI agree that a more robust solution that can leverage the GeoNames gazetteer would be very useful.[[User:GaryGriffin|Please read the GaryGriffin]] ([[Place_completion_tool#IssuesUser talk:GaryGriffin|Issuestalk]] section}})
