Should the parents of William Shattuck be removed

Question

His profile says that nothing is known of him before he arrived in Massachusetts, but parents have been added for him, with the only source "Family Search on Family Tree". Should those parents be removed?

Answer 1

If there are no sources on parent's profiles or William's profiles and no sources can be found, Research Notes section can be created with the wikitree ID and name of both parents on his profile and add his name to the 'linked' parent's profile before disconnecting them.  or Label as Possible Parents.  

There is a Find a Grave has the mother linked, but no mention of the father.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20418389/william-shattuck.

Answer 2

Furthermore, the profile Samuel Shattuck-1624 which has been attached as father is a recently created profile with nothing but a family search source and then somehow attached as husband to a PPP profile of Demaris Gardner. This man is Unknown Shattuck already represented in WikiTree. These parents do need to be disconnected and Shattuck-1624 needs to be merged away (unless primary source documentation can be provided.

Comments

This is an example of why Family Search profiles should not be allowed as sources.

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[Whoops, I read you as saying there was no reason we shouldn't use FamilySearch profiles.  Guess I'm in violent agreement.] No, [that is, YES] we should not be using FamilySearch profiles as PGM sources.  We specify that we use high-quality sources, or the best available *contemporary* sources -- that is, sources created when the person was alive -- and FamilySearch profiles are neither contemporary sources nor high-quality sources by any definition of the term.

 Many are every bit as bad as Ancestry trees can be.   Absolutely anyone can create one, without any kind of source or evidence.  

Now many of the *sources* available on FamilySearch are top-notch, and there are a lot of digitizations of contemporary sources to be found there,  but that's another matter entirely.

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A family tree isn't an acceptable reference for pre-1700 profiles.  It's not desired for post-1700 ones, either, but unfortunately (IMHO) is accepted.  These new profiles shouldn't have been created.  I've proposed a merge for the newly created Samuel Shattock with the actual Unknown (since no sources have identified his given name).