Challenge of the Week: Clean-up as many merged profiles as possible [closed]

Question

Hi WikiTreers,

Will you join our "Data Doctors" Challenge of the week?

This one is a reprise of one of the most popular and valuable challenges we've done: cleaning up messy merged-together profiles.

Aleš has prepared a report of profiles from around the tree that were merged but never had their biographies and sources consolidated. Click here for the list.

Click here for tips on how the biographies and sources section should look. Most importantly, all profiles should have one and only one == Biography == headline and one == Sources == section with one <references /> tag directly beneath it.

After you delete the junk and consolidate any useful biographical text and sources, set the status as corrected. That will earn you a point.

The member with the most points at 11:59pm EDT on Sunday night will get the badge and the bragging rights. But we'll all benefit from a neater, cleaner shared tree.

If you're participating, please post here to let us know. It's nice to cheer each other on. Or post if you have any questions about how to participate.

Thanks for helping!

Real-time tracking results: See your stats 
alongside other participants here.

Top 10

• Helen E. Edwards - 497
• Carolyn S. Martin - 400
• Kandita A. Post - 187
• Anders Lönnermark - 122
• Terry McClintock - 89
• Missy S. Berryann - 81
• Kathy Zipperer - 78
• Sheena E. Tait - 58
• N Gauthier - 46
• Kelly Stadelbauer - 43

Comments

Challenge is active.

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I look forward to helping :)

Answer 1

OK, more Scots for me 

Answer 2

Let's git er done.

Answer 3

I'm definitely in for this!

Answer 4

I hope to get to some of these. Thanks.

Answer 5

I am in for this one. I’ll work on Swedish profiles.

Missy 

Answer 6

I'll have a go at some

Answer 7

This wouldn't have to be done if the person that merged the profiles continued with the second step and that is to clean up the merge but all to often someone just sees a pending merge, pushes the button to make the merge happen, and then leave it and never properly finish what the did!

Answer 8

I’ll do a few.

Answer 9

I'll work on some

Answer 10

i want to try. I watched the video. What if the profile is imported from a GEDCOM and has no real sources?

Comments

Nancy, you add an {{unsourced}} template above the ==Biography== heading. If you know the country or state (in the US), then you should add that to the template. For instance {{unsourced | Connecticut}} or {{unsourced | Sweden}}.

Answer 11

I’d like to help with this one.

Answer 12

I'll try a few.

Answer 13

Working my way through a few. Very satisfying. Like polishing silver!