Inactive reasons

We recently looked into expanding our reasons and for the circumstance you described, we would use "Invalid/No Activity".

For those we're just using "default inactive reason", since it's there, there are so few of them, and since we really only have the two possible reasons. If it started seeming like we had new, more specific reasons for inactivating we might actually track them specifically, but at this point that hasn't been the case. At one point I considered switching to "bad import" as a reason, but nobody really cared so we didn't bother. It was just assumed, if it were inactive and not deceased it was a bad import.

Actually, the first few years we didn't even have a specific different reason for "deceased" since usually the name would already have that as a namestatus. But it did make it slightly easier to one-stop-shop see that as the inactive reason, instead of checking all the generically inactivated people for deceasedness. Sorry not to be more helpful.

We recently looked into expanding our reasons and for the circumstance you described, we would use "Invalid/No Activity".

For those we're just using "default inactive reason", since it's there, there are so few of them, and since we really only have the two possible reasons. If it started seeming like we had new, more specific reasons for inactivating we might actually track them specifically, but at this point that hasn't been the case. At one point I considered switching to "bad import" as a reason, but nobody really cared so we didn't bother. It was just assumed, if it were inactive and not deceased it was a bad import.

Actually, the first few years we didn't even have a specific different reason for "deceased" since usually the name would already have that as a namestatus. But it did make it slightly easier to one-stop-shop see that as the inactive reason, instead of checking all the generically inactivated people for deceasedness. Sorry not to be more helpful.