docs: add a comment to explain the determination* fields use of clean…

…=False
NaturalHistoryMuseum · Oct 31, 2023 · 6782b7a · 6782b7a
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diff --git a/dataimporter/emu/views/specimen.py b/dataimporter/emu/views/specimen.py
@@ -233,6 +233,9 @@ def make_data(self, record: SourceRecord) -> dict:
             "recoveryWeight": get_first("MinMetRecoveryWeight"),
             "registeredWeight": get_first("MinMetWeightAsRegistered"),
             "registeredWeightUnit": get_first("MinMetWeightAsRegisteredUnit"),
+            # these need clean=False because each should return a tuple of the same
+            # length where the values at each index align across all three tuples,
+            # therefore we need to keep empty values
             "determinationTypes": get_all("IdeCitationTypeStatus", clean=False),
             "determinationNames": get_all("EntIdeScientificNameLocal", clean=False),
             "determinationFiledAs": get_all("EntIdeFiledAs", clean=False),