Over my head on Norman-130 post merge work

Question

I took a copy of the Norman-130 profile before merging, but find I am still over my head in the post merge environment. 

1. The footnotes and sources key off 10 digit numbers. These work great for computers, but are not so easy on this brain. 

2. Many of the sources being referencesd are to collections said to contain information about Susannah, but with which I haven't worked. This means that I am not familiar with the claims arising from those sources--I can't know where conflicts arise and/or which claims/conflicts are relevant.* Such is the case with many/most of the sources reporting Ancestry.com as a repository. 

*I am able to tell from a quick scan of the data that there are conflicts.    

3. :-) I have worked with other collections and source materials about Susannah Norman. Fear my own notes about those materials need to be reworked in order to fit well into the WikiTree "source" and "footnotes" arrangement. Realize that I've apparently been approaching this all wrong. 

No doubt patience and a big chunk of time would solve items one and three, but not item two.

Imagine I'm like most of us, would prefer not to delete sources or references contributed by another collaborator. Suggestions?  

Answer 1

If you add {{Template:LongProfiles}} to the top of the profile some kind person from the Profile Improvement Project will notice it and make a start, if not finish it. It may not happen straight away there are almost a hundred profiles already in the line but it will be done, at a brief glance it does not seem as bad as many we deal with.

Comments

I added the template and made a start on tidying, all the events now have the data together, so you can easily see the disputed births for example. While it is obvious that there are some errors in the profile I have left it all there for someone more knowledgeable to sort out. I would say do not trust the data sourced from Milleniumm file or Ancestry family trees without confirmng the facts.

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Thank you very much!

I had overlooked the categorization opportunity.

Warm thoughts to you for shining the light as well as the indeed kind persons who participate in that effort. GeneJ

Answer 2

My first suggestion would be to post a note in the comments section that this profile is in need of clean-up.  You might also pm the profile managers as well.  One of them might jump in to help out.

This is all about collaboration.  Here is a link with helpful information about cleaning-up Biographies and the Profile Improvement Project:


http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Biographies

Comments

Thank you for taking the time to comment, M. Gaulden.

There are seven profile managers on Susannah today and all of the famlies involved are probably PGM once the profiles are cleaned up.

Multiple GEDCOMs brought us the Susannah Norman profile posted. At least it seems that some of the uploads were by those no longer active; possibly those no longer profile managers.

I hope this post does serve as a call for input or assistance from those who would like to help (it is attached to her profile).

As you suggested, I did add a "clean up needed" note on her profile.

Unlikely I would take it further ... not comfortable asking others to invest their research time in something I wouldn't be willing to do with my own research time!

Thank you again.

Answer 3

Hi susanna you are ... you go to that profile and click on edit...  go through it and when you get to 3 points at the bottom it will tell you if there is another profile... then you will need to select which in is the closest to it ..this is section 2.. the the merge, delete, compare , etc will come up... click on compare....then it will show both of the files at the same time of the screen ...click on what you want to use of the info... then go to the bottom and save the info...  This should merge both of your files.

hope this helps

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Oops! Did you notice the date of this question: 2014?