Team Virginia - 2017 Spring Clean-a-Thon

Profile managers: Liz Shifflett [send private message], Elizabeth Coltrane [send private message], Sandy Patak [send private message], Mel Lambert [send private message], Robin Kabrich [send private message], Jamie Ball [send private message], Catherine Wydner [send private message], Sarah Sherman [send private message], Cynthia B [send private message], Elizabeth Spencer [send private message], LM Gragg [send private message], Leslie LaMotte [send private message], Tammy Joyce [send private message], Stephen Herring [send private message], Lynn Paarmann [send private message], and Virginia Dodier [send private message]

Virginia Spring Cleaners

You know it's Spring in Virginia when the daffodils, dogwoods, and redbuds are in bloom.

Welcome, to the first ever "Spring Clean-a-Thon"!

Please play cheerleader to fellow members of Team Virginia! I'm not available most of C-a-T weekend, but I'll check in when I can. If you'd like to lead this team, let me know! ~ Liz Shifflett

The purpose of the Clean-a-Thon is to decrease the number of database errors, which is what the Database Errors Project does all the time.

Clean-a-Thon Links

The tables (below) don't play well with comments, so I deleted most of them. This was the only link from the deleted comments that hasn't been added elsewhere:

• Main https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Spring_Clean-a-Thon page.

These links were provided by the Clean-a-Thon coordinators:

• G2G Prize post
• G2G Questions post
• Hangouts schedule
• Tracking your progress

Four G2G questions are linked to this page (see the links at upper right):

• Let's Talk Virginia - our "Team communication" G2G thread
• Answers and discussion forum for Virginia Spring Cleaners during the 2017 Clean-a-Thon (guidance for Team Virginia for the Clean-a-Thon)
• Policy Discussion of what the official WikiTree policy for Virginia locations should be. (Not something I'll be looking at till after the Clean-a-Thon!)
• The "join Team Virginia" G2G (the sign-up G2G for Team Virginia)

Members

1. Liz Shifflett, (mostly absentee) leader (main registration; Team Virginia post) |See your work
2. Pat Hickin, co-leader (main registration; Team Virginia post) |See your work
3. L Kish, Jamestown focus (main registration; Team Virginia post) |See your work
4. Michael Joslin (main registration; Team Virginia post) |See your work
5. Terry Thornton (main registration; Team Virginia post) |See your work
6. Tammy Joyce (main registration; Team Virginia post) |See your work
7. Leslie Archer (main registration; Team Virginia post) |See your work
8. Sarah Sherman-VanDeventer (main registration; Team Virginia post) |See your work
9. Cynthia B (main registration; Team Virginia post) |See your work
10. Elizabeth Spencer (main registration; Team Virginia post) |See your work
11. Elizabeth Coltrane (main registration) |See your work
12. Sandy Patak, focusing on West Virginia (main registration;Team Virginia post) |See your work
13. Jamie Ball (main registration; Team Virginia post) |See your work
14. William Foster (main registration; Team Virginia Post) |See your work
15. LM Gragg (main registration; Team Virginia post) |See your work
16. Mel Lambert, focusing on West Virginia (main registration; Team Virginia post) |See your work
17. Virginia Dodier (main registration) |See your work
18. Cathy Wydner (main registration) |See your work
19. Stephen Herring (main registration; Team Virginia post) |See your work
20. Lynn Camden (main registration) |See your work

Members' Badges

Badges? We doan need no steenkin' badges. Except in WikiTree, sometimes you do - for instance, to work on pre-1500 and pre-1700 profiles (details, details).

• Pre-1500: Certified for adding and editing profiles of people born before the year 1500.
  • Liz Shifflett
  • Pat Hickin
  • Cynthia B
  • William Foster
• Pre-1700: Self-certified for editing profiles of people born between 1500 and 1700. All teammembers but one have the pre-1700 badge now. (Virginia, you'll also need to be a Wiki Genealogist to edit Open profiles. You might also need to be one in order to take the pre-1700 quiz.)
• Data Doctor: Member of the Database Errors Project
  • Pat Hickin
• US Southern Colonies: parent project for Virginia Colony and Jamestown projects
  • Cynthia B, project coordinator
  • Liz Shifflett
  • Michael Joslin
  • Sandy Patak
• Virginia Project (subproject of US History)
  • Liz Shifflett, project leader
  • Michael Joslin
  • Cynthia B
  • Cathy Wydner

Help?

Short answer for fixing "USA too early": replace USA/United States with Colony

Long answer: see Answers and discussion forum for Virginia Spring Cleaners during the 2017 Clean-a-Thon

Check out sources used by Team Virginia for the Source-a-Thon last October:

• Team Virginia Sources
• Virginia Sources Quick Reference

Don't forget what a powerful resource G2G is - tag your question with virginia and db_errors at least. For questions about the C-a-T, use the tag clean-a-thon.

Virginia Projects all have information you might find useful:

• [[[Space:Jamestown%2C_Virginia_Colony|Jamestown]]]
• [[[Space:US_Southern_Colonies_British_Virginia|Virginia Colony]]]
• [[[Project:Virginia|Virginia]]]
• [[[Project:West_Virginia|West Virginia]]] (post-1863)

Plan of Action

1. You should work your own errors first: Go to https://plus.wikitree.com/default.htm & put your ID in the "Managed by" field. If you have not worked these lists before, this will help you get familiarized. ~ borrowed from "Musty Dusty" team
2. Next, see the table below for "USA too early" errors and search for "Virginia" in the error lists. Replace USA or United States with "Colony" as needed (see this G2G post for more precise information you could use instead of the "too early" USA or United States info).
3. If the profile has insufficient or no sources, add {{Unsourced|Virginia}}
4. If a county is mentioned in the profile, take an extra minute to add the county category. For example:

• [[Category:Stafford County, Virginia]]

See this table for existing county categories (note that Stafford County does not have a separate "Virginia Colony" category). Please contact me if a county was missed. Currently, we're not adding additional "Virginia Colony" county categories. If the profile fact is between 1776 and 1788, and both pre- and post-USA county categories exist, then add both categories (see this explanation).

This G2G post has additional Team Virginia guidance & is our forum for questions that come up during the Clean-a-Thon. However, Let's Talk Virginia is our team's main communication thread.

Important:

• In the Errors list: Be sure to use the Status button:
  • Before checking the profile, check the status to see if the error has already been corrected.
  • After correcting the error (or posting a comment if you cannot edit the profile), update the status so that others coming across the error will know.
• On a profile: Always include the error number in the explanation for your change(s): e.g., "corrected dbe 603 - and added county category". You could also just note the dbe error code & include a link to the Team Virginia G2G guidance post: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/379598/ (you could enter that link as the status explanation also).

Details

After working on your own tree's errors, let's focus first on the USA Too Early lists.

If you need some variety, hop down to the table with Virginia Location Errors for a bit.

Either table . . .

• To work on pre-1700 profiles you'll need the pre-1700 badge. If you don't have one, go take the quiz! (click the link to it from this page)
• To work on pre-1500 profiles, you also need a badge, but they're harder to get, so don't worry about them if you don't have the pre-1500 badge.
• Profiles of people born more than 200 years ago should be Open, so all the profiles we need to work on should be open - except for ones where the date is wrong, not "USA". Leave a polite note on those, saying what needs to change and why, along with the error code (linked to its space page). For example, something along the lines of:

Hi! I'm participating in the Spring Clean-a-Thon and this profile was flagged as having a Virginia location error - [[Space:DBE_603|DBE 603]]: USA too early in birth location. I think the error is because the birth year is wrong, not the location, and can be fixed when the year is corrected. Could you take a look? Let me know if you need more information! ~ [[your WikiTree ID|your name]], [[Space:Virginia_Spring_Cleaners|Team Virginia]]

Don't forget to use the Status button!

All Errors

For a table with all errors, everywhere, click the link in the big green box at the top of this page - as of April 20, it's the table for errors as of April 16: Space:Database_Errors_Project_2017-04-16.

Check Your Own Tree for Errors

On your profile page, under your WikiTree ID (at the upper right, in the mini-menu), the dropdown menu has "Error Report" - click on that and see if there's anything that shows up you could practice on.

The main focus of Team Virginia is 6x3 errors in Virginia. The following links should take you to the "USA too early" error report for birth, marriage, & death locations (respectively). Click the status button (you may need to scroll far right to see it). On my browser, it opens in a new tab. If someone corrected the error & updated the status, it will show there. If there's no status update but the profile is no longer in error, please comment "already fixed".

http://www.softdata.si/osebe_staro/ales/wikitree/Err_20170416/Virginia/603_1700-1799_0.htm

http://www.softdata.si/osebe_staro/ales/wikitree/Err_20170416/Virginia/663_1700-1799_0.htm

http://www.softdata.si/osebe_staro/ales/wikitree/Err_20170416/Virginia/633_1700-1799_0.htm

Tutorial

Still confused - try the tutorial: Spring_Clean-a-Thon_Tutorial

Don't forget to use the Status button!

Database Errors

USA Too Early

DBE 603: USA too early in birth location db_error_603

DBE 633: USA too early in death location db_error_633

DBE 663: USA too early in marriage location db_error_663

Virginia/West Virginia Location Errors