Bio Check App

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New App!  Bio Check

Bio Check examines biographies to identify profiles that might be unsourced, that are marked unsourced, or that have style issues. It is intended as an aid in finding profiles that might qualify as Unsourced, and can also be used to find profiles with style issues.

Here is the app: https://apps.wikitree.com/apps/sands1865/biocheck/

Here is the help: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:BioCheckHelp

If you are impatient, from the "Biographies to check" pulldown, select either WikiTree+ search results or Check Profile, then fill in the rest of the fields. On a laptop/desktop hover over the name of the field for a tip.

Caveat: please ensure that a profile meets the criteria as Unsourced before adding the tag. See Sources FAQ and Pre-1700 Sources.

03 Nov 2020 Update:

  • Corrected a problem where a valid FindAGrave citation was not recognized
  • Changed the default Ancestor generations to 5

04 Nov 2020

See Biography Help which might explain style issues.

Thanks everyone for trying this out. Remember that it is just a tool intended as something that you can use to find Profiles that need improvement. We all have those! Please bear with me as I am working on making the Help easier to understand. I will get back to you -- and this is easier if you Answer this question instead of providing a Comment. Thanks!

Update 07 Nov 2020 V 1.0.2
* added support for space before and after the <nowiki><references /></nowiki> tag
* add profiles with style issues to relative checks when style issues are reported
* recognize inline ref that are after Sources but before the references tag
* recognize inline ref when Research Notes are before Biography Heading
* corrected a problem where a possibly valid source was not recognized
* no longer report 0 in the Misplaced Lines column

WikiTree profile: Space:BioCheckHelp
in The Tree House by Kay Knight G2G6 Pilot (600k points)
edited by Kay Knight
I love this so far! So far I've used it to fix headings of profiles on my own watchlist. Thank you! :)
Very nice!

Suggestion: add tags "announcements" and "improvements" to attract more attention!

I added direct link to BioCheck from WikiTree+ search results. It looks like this.

Found: 15 profiles for "Ljubljana Trtnik". Display results on WikiTree+ Map

Analyze results in Bio Check.

First Prev 0 / 1 Next Last

Ales - Way way cool!
Ran it on six families in major watch list and most were found to have the references tag to be below the sources listed; moving the tag to immediately following the sources heading solved every one of them.
Thanks for your new Bio-check tool. One query I have is why my name shows up in the Name column of the results grid as "Undefined Newnham" when all the name fields on my profile are completed?
I do not know how to source on Wiki tree.. if someone wants to type all that stuff in for me, I'll be glad to send them the sources.  Because of writing the sources, I've pretty much stopped using Wikitree.
@Gerald. The app is run as if you are not logged into WikiTree....maybe in the future. I figured that checking your own profile wasn't as critical.

@Christine. Sorry to hear that. There are lots of volunteers that could work with you if you are interested.
I guess I don't understand what I'm looking at.
Bill - a list of profiles that might need some work. Or maybe an empty list
I don't understand It says sources missing for my  3x grt grandfather Walter Lowery Yet I have loads of sources n census info. It also says tag missing for my biological fathers line person Catherine Woods Roe Yet I put her marriage source and more So I really dont understand why these came up? Thanks
Thanks Kay for checking through the Beveridge profile. I appreciate it. Heather

Hello Kay,

You said that you ran a profile check and found a "misplaced lines" style error. Could you tell me what that is? Hitchcock-2031

Thank you,

Paul

hehe, I asked that one myself Paul, space between ==Souces== and <references /> should be nil, ie they appear one after the other on subsequent lines in edit mode, no extra linefeeds
Very good, but I also wondered what "Misplaced lines" meant, although I have discovered from the comments that it is extra line feeds between ===Sources=== and <references/>. maybe you could add a note to that effect to the page that comes up with the problems list?
Thanks, I fixed them.
Let me give this a try...
Hi Kate,

Thank you for your reply!

But I'm only looking for information on the Willis, Dixon Dixson Dickerson Dickinson Dickson Goins Goings Goens Rocqermore Rockinmore and Rockmore family! I don't need nothing on the Newhouse family!

Thank you so much!!!
Hello Paul (and Kay), I saw that on 2 of mine. I looked and there were lines/items under  == Sources == that I thought should be under == Biography ==, so I moved them, did a scan, and they didn't come up again. I thought I fixed it, so that's my take on the 'misplaced lines' alert.

Luther
Kay, Do you think this app will ever be on one of our drop-down menus?

Luther
I get no results - Permission denied.  What do I do to allow access?
Thank you for your work Kay. I'm on the last week of my Uni studies for this year. I will go through the details you have provided once I have my assignments in. Lin Starke
Hi Kay,

I had a Bio Check on Adams-27937 - Zilpha Beresford. I'm not the Profile manager for that person, Henry Corbishley is the profile was created 2017.

Please get back to me for this profile.

Elsi Hagley/Olson
It seems that  your app doesn't recognize the UK National Census as a Source. I really feel that it should.
Shelley, were you logged in?  Usually permission denied shows up when we try something without being logged in.
I have no bio as my bio is private, as I am living. So surprised that I even needed one. No bio will be provided . Cheers.
Great app. I was able to clean up numerous profiles in ten generations without any problems. Thanks !!
Love it!! This is a perfect app to use as a final check for a new branch on the tree. It will help to create consistency and work the bugs out. Thank you!
Sandra, if you have a relative in the system, you can put the Wikitree ID in.  Most people have entered their parents and grandparents, whether living or not.  Because of Privacy, Living relatives are not shown.  Other profiles can be changed from the Privacy tab.  Without your parents and grand parents, you won't be connected to the 'tree' and you can't verify all your ancestors.
The profile you start your search with doesn't have to be an ancestor. I looked at some of the extended Olmste(a)d family members and just put in their ID and was surprised at the return and was then able to make some necessary minor corrections to profiles that I do not manage. Most of them had to do with the references tag not being tight under the Sources heading -- a WT format change about a year ago. On those the number of "errors" often reported was the number of sources that were above the tag -- moving the tag fixed all those quickly.

Data Doctor Walt
Hi Kay. First let me say that I am very pleased with the app. It's kinda like spell-check in a way. Only more like fact- checking. I'm kind of having to learn everything here and there and I'm not able to dedicate as much time as I really want to. My issue with sourcing is knowing what "format' to use. I do have one question that I'd probably not your area of expertise but I'll ask anyway. Is there an app or wiki-tool that does a "blanket search" to see who you may have matches with? Or must we continue not input each wiki ID one at a time? Also, what are the "Degrees"? i.e. I am 15 degrees from George Washington.( Which brings up more questions like I did a relationship check with H. Washington lady week and it said no match at all. Thank you?!
Upritchard-7 has no result ; error message - 'Reference error. Can't find variable : fetch'
Alan. What browser are you using?
Chris. Thanks. For your other questions try searching G2G (or asking a question) I think I've seen similar questions and that will get you a broader community to answer.
How do I stop getting emails about this app?
Danielle thank you for the answer. I clicked on the link from Wikitree Family News email I received. The help link above, helped
I do not want to follow this thread but I don't see how to stop it.
John, go back to your original message, select edit. Below the message, it has checkbox that states 'email me .... '. Unclick that and hopefully that will stop the other emails.
Thank you.
iPad mini. Older IOS version - will not update to 10. I tried with Firefox on the PC just now and it worked OK, so I will resolve 1 issue from there. Thanks.
Alan. Thanks. So, Bio Check is not supported on iPad Mini with the Opera browser. Probably not on Internet Explorer either. Glad that you have an alternative.
Hi Kay

I have your answer now

Please tell me how do I stop all the alerts now everytime someone posts on this topic now ? Cant find out how to stop it and am overwhelmed with endless alerts now everytime you or someone else asks or answers Thanks Suzy
Thank you very encouraging!

Suzy, I had posted this earlier for John.  Go back to your original message, select edit. Below the message, it has checkbox that states 'email me .... '. Unclick that and hopefully that will stop the other emails.

Found it But where is the place to unclick email me apart from my comments? Cant find it

reply to Suzy:

You will probably need to check any answers and comments you made for the relevant post to be sure to stop all emails related to the post and replies to your answers and comments.

If your computing device has text search function, just search for your name in the relevant post.

It may seem like a time-consuming job, but it will be worth the effort in the end.

edit: added intro text

When you 'edit' your post, below the text box is the button to Save your changes.  Below that is the checkbox about Emailing that you want to unclick
Thank you Kay !  That was awesome just fixed all my short list of folks in the family .  Mostly managed by one person that did a gedcom upload a few years back, some were locked profiles before and they have recently opened ! Yay!
Many thanks for taking the time to create such a useful function :)
Genius Person, Kay!  Thank you so much!
Great Stuff! Thank you.

Hello Kay,  I added some sources for Brokaw-136but I guess the issue is two MIsplaced lines.   Can you help me identify those?

Thanks 

FRank

Frank. Move the references tag to the line immediately following == Sources ==

In this case, I think the source "Title:  World Family Tree Vol. 1, Ed. 1 Author:  Brøderbund Software, Inc. Publication:  Release date: November 29, 1995 Note: [[#NS39221]] Repository:   Call Number:   Media:  Family Archive CD " is just someone's private file from a genealogy program and can be removed, but we should probably get another opinion on that.
World Family Tree disks were individuals trees that were submitted to the company that then owned Family Tree Maker. There were five disks (CDs) that were distributed with the purchases of FTM along with other disks of "sources" such as the SDDI. I believe that the majority if not all of those trees now reside with ancestry.com

You may be able to find the specific tree on ancestry and then update the reference. Like many trees on ancestry, it may have no actual sources and thus basically be worthless.

Amazing tool and resource. Thank you so much for sharing and creating/maintaining.  I'd received an email featuring your app and info and was curious to try it out.

I did, and got the following result:

Examined 8 profiles: Found 0 profiles with 0 style issues; 0 marked unsourced; 0 possibly unsourced not marked

I guess that's good, considering I just started and have only limited info entered. But it is a good feeling knowing this tool exists to assist me and keep info concurrent and correct across the site.

Thanks, Kay! MUCH appreciated!

Just want to confirm that it should be:

== Acknowledgments == (per BioCheck app and Style Guide)

not

=== Acknowledgments === (per communication from a WikiTree project leader)
Yes, only two equal symbols front and back.

A change a couple of years ago from 3
It used to be 3 =, but was changed to 2.

I'd also like to point out that while there are two == for the two required sections, Biography and Sources and for the optional Research notes and Acknowledgements, the other optional sub-sections listed here have three ===. 

I see a lot of folks making changes to profiles they don't manage, some managed by projects, where these changes are being made incorrectly. Please be sure to read the Help: Biographies page before embarking on large numbers of profile changes.

Thank you Bobbie. The app only looks for the == two level headings per the Biography help page. 

Before changing style issues be sure to review Bio Check Help. If a style issue is reported for a profile where you are not the Profile Manager, you should Communicate Before Editing

you show the ''Bio Check App'' in my tree ???

I am totally lost about this thing and how to use it you show ''click  Check Profiles to begin'' and when I do nothing happens ???

I am a Senior with little computer smarts, so, can you explain it to this old dummy??

Kay would be able to be more precise, and has given instructions through this G2G board, but what I have found to work:

  1. Make sure "Biographies to check" shows 'Check profile'.
  2. In 'Profile', enter a Wiki profile code for one of your relatives who is not locked (e.g. when I enter my own code, I get 'Permission denied', but when I enter my grandparents, it works fine.)
  3. You can change 'Ancestor generations' to a number from 0 to 10.  The default is 5 and can be left as is. The number you choose would depend on how many generations exist and how much you want to see/work on.
  4. Click 'Check Profiles'. (I haven't changed any of the other defaults.)
  5. Be sure to check the 'Help' page to understand what the results mean.  I recommend you right-click and 'open in another tab' or 'open in another window' so it is easily available.

https://apps.wikitree.com/apps/sands1865/biocheck/

Clarence,

The whole idea is to find profiles that might not be sourced.

Melissa is correct. In the future it may also work for you. It might also work if you add your parents -- the Biography must be public for it to work

Also, from Bio Check if you click the Help button, that will open the help in another tab.
Kay thank you for looking over my entries.  I am still a work in progress, bear with me.
Amidon-235 was tagged for not having but it has sources.  Why is it tagged?
Barbara: Amidon-235 looks like it was originally built without sources, and at that time the {{Unsourced}} tag was applied. After sources were added, no one removed that tag. You can now do so.
Not sure if this has been asked yet or not, but is it possible to just put a Wikitree-ID in the Search Text on Wikitree+ box and check for unsourced or marked profiles that may not necesarily be relatives? I ask because I came across an unsourced profile from 1700s and looked up the individual's ID who is attached as the PM and it didn't register him at all. What I was hoping to find was a list of all problematic profiles - such as what Wikitree+ shows. Is that clear as mud? :D
Yeah that's been a common theme I've been seeing in my profiles...Two not three.
@Raewyn - Yes, you can do it. You can use the same string you use in the WikiTree+ Search Text when you pick How to Find Profiles as WikiTree+ search results. The Bio Check Help Tips, Tricks... lists a couple of examples (find for manager, creator or gedcom). Or, after you get the WikiTree+ Search Text results click on the Analyze results in Bio Check near the top of the screen.
the bio check app is great it heps alot

30 Answers

+14 votes
 
Best answer
Pretty cool. I just fixed some minor goofs in a couple profiles! =D
by Chris Ferraiolo G2G6 Pilot (766k points)
selected by Robin Lee
+24 votes
This is pretty cool and I'm always impressed with new apps that help either to simplify tasks or just provide another way of seeing a task.

Thus far, i haven't seen any big issues. Thanks for your time with creating this tool for the WikiTree Community! :-)

~Brian Kerr
by Living Kerr G2G6 Pilot (330k points)
+13 votes
Thanks Kay!!
by Traci Thiessen G2G6 Pilot (295k points)
+8 votes

hmm, now what do we enter in the box Search text on WikiTree+ ?  It doesn't say clearly on the help page.  Won't run without something in there.

Best to give detailed simple instructions on the help page first, otherwise won't get used much.  Does look like it may be interesting tool, but not all of us are up on all the techno-stuff.

by Danielle Liard G2G6 Pilot (659k points)
Danielle,

Thanks for the feedback. I would really appreciate any input that you might have to help clarify the Help.

Would it Help if the help that says

Search text on WikiTree+: enter WikiTree+ Search/Text (same as you would enter for WikiTree+) also had the link to the WikiTree+ Help? here https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:WikiTree_Plus#Text_search_2

Maybe something like.. enter WikiTree+ Search/Text (the Help for WikiTree+ Search/Text is here)

(There is already a link to WikiTree+ from the buttons).

I would copy the list from WikiTree+ of what key words can be used.  Always annoying having to go elsewhere to find out what to use.

Meanwhile, tried it with my own profile ID Liard-1 and the word sources in the other box we fill in, gives me 100 profiles which have absolutely nothing to do with me.  Huh?

Danielle -

There are lots of things to search by. See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:WikiTree_Plus#Text_search_2.

I just tried WikiTree+ Search for Liard-1 and got 4107 profiles.. guessing that is your watchlist?

The search fields combine. If you search Quebec there are more than 50000 profiles. If you change this to Quebec orphan there are still nearly 35000. If you again change to Quebec orphan neveredited there are still over 12000 profiles. Okay using "quebec orphan neveredited 1870s" is more manageable at 3336 profiles that mention Quebec are orphaned profiles that have never been edited and were living in the 1870s.

ok, tried without entering my ID in the Profile box and instead put it in the wikitree+ search box

that gives me proper results.

One thing that needs fixing is on bios that use another language as header, ie ==Biographie== rather than ==Biography==.  It is listing these as missing that header.  Need to find a solution, English isn't the only language on the planet.  wink

What does ''misplaced lines'' mean?  I know what your help page says, but what is the number of lines wanted?  Never seen anything on the subject.

Truly, instructions on how to use this need to be very simple and explicit, ie no techno-speak, not everybody reads that stuff.laugh

But doing it how I have just done gives me very good results.

Danielle,

You are making me laugh. I can't even write English help that can be understood and now go into other languages.

Seriously, I agree. The first is to get the Help cleaned up. It might also help to have check by Profile as the default instead of WikiTree+ search.

I also agree on an enhancement to better handle non-English. This would not only be the equivalent for Biography and Sources but also for some things that do not qualify as sources, such as FindAGrave by itself or a family tree on a Pre-1700 profile.

"Misplaced lines" is my attempt to put "per the style guide there should not be any lines between the Sources heading and the references tag" so it fits into the table header. Even "lines between Sources and references tag" is too long.
Hello, and thanks for this app! Based on the above, I want to be very sure I understand. Do you mean that blank lines, even ones between sources are considered “bad”? If so, just about any substantive biography I’ve written is probably going to have some, as I use blank lines to help make my markup language more human readable. Can I turn this off, or modify the maximum allowable number of consecutive blank lines? Thank you again. This does look like a great tool to help with a final check before finalizing a new biography, updating one, or looking for issues in older biographies I’m responsible for!
Deborah, it only applies to the space between ==Sources== and <references /> which should follow each other in order without extra lines between them.  Nothing else.  So your bio text is not affected by this at all.
Thanks! I am glad to hear this! I’ll be using this often!
+11 votes
This is such an awesome app and I can't wait to see all the clean up that results from it! I ran this on my own family--managed by me or not--and found quite a few unsourced profiles that are now either tagged or cleaned up.

I would recommend the help page have more step by step instructions. I wasn't sure what to put in the fields, so I just added a random number. I wasn't sure the difference between WikiTree+ and Check Profile.
by Emma MacBeath G2G Astronaut (1.3m points)
Yes, fixing the help is my first priority.
+7 votes
Ignores everything not in ref tags? Inline citations aren't required? Should bulleted lists after Sources header be included as a criterion for Sourced?
by Jonathan Crawford G2G6 Pilot (279k points)
Anything inside a ref tag pair is considered a possible source.

Anything after Sources or the reference tag (either could be missing) and before Acknowledgments (or the end of the biography, which ever is first) is considered as a possible source.

Anything after Research Notes and before the next heading is ignored.

Just plain ole text in the Biography section (before the next section heading) that is not inside a ref tag pair is not looked at as a source.

Technobabble...testing for the absence of something. Any possible found source is tested against things that are not valid sources, based on the dates on the profile. Nothing left after tossing those it might be unsourced - won't detect bio prose that has enough to find, for example, a specific census.
Thanks Kay, i missed the context of that only applying above the sources header
+9 votes
Ok, this has been useful in finding mistakes I made as a newbie, eg. deleting <references /> because I had no idea what it meant, as well as alerting me to things I didn't even know were a thing, eg number of lines between the sources heading and the references tag!
by Wendy Scott G2G6 Mach 3 (31.2k points)
+8 votes
I had the pleasure of having Kay test out her app a while back on some profiles in a couple of parishes in Louisiana where I do cemetery work and where a very high percentage of profiles can to connected to my family tree in some way.  I picked up a number of places where I could add sources and also connect in more of my previous research that I'm slowly adding to WikiTree.  I see this as a wonderful tool for those looking to identify profiles in a particular area of WikiTree that they are interested in improving.
by Mary Jensen G2G6 Pilot (130k points)
+6 votes

I have 3 profiles flagged:

Heard-1293:  1 Misplaced line; which one?

King-1470: 2x References tags.  Needs a clean-up.

Pye-570:  "Maybe Unsourced."  Better sources can be provided.

by Doug Laidlaw G2G6 Mach 3 (39.1k points)
Heard. The references tag should be the line immediately following the Sources heading.

King. Yeah, an older GEDCOM import

Pye. Probably could be marked Unsourced.
Heard: Fixed.

I will add proper sources for all 3 in the next day or so.
+7 votes
Nice app; one issue I have noticed in my results. Two profiles got flagged in the references tag column as "Missing, ref Following." I'm not sure how a 'ref' tag could be found to be following the 'references' tag if the 'references' tag was missing in the first place. In both cases, these were false indicators.
Burdette-239
Mays-631
by Tom Gillespie G2G1 (1.7k points)
Tom,

Thanks. Please do not change these. I want to look into what is happening here. I will get back to you.

Smith-157141 Innocent of any wrongdoing as listed in these 9 of 100 examined by your app 

Examined 36 profiles: Found 6 profiles with 6 style issues

> Not the PM on Sarah Sally (Carnes) Huffman (abt.1771-1848) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

> Not the PM on Elias Chaffin (1763-1837) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

> Not the PM on Michael E. Huffman (1765-1848) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

> Not the PM On Elizabeth (Jordan) Wooten (abt.1760-abt.1826) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

> Not the PM on Charles Medlock - WikiTree Profile

> Not the PM on Harriet Mary (Medlock) Smith - WikiTree Profile

Good app and easy to use.  My question is the same as Tom's re the "Missing, ref Following".   Bridgland-90,  Middleton-4717

Donna. I don't see why these were reported, and am investigating. Beautiful profiles by the way.
Thank you, Kay!  Both are direct ancestors.
Tom and Donna.

Found it. Very subtle...

On the line with < references / > (without spaces after the < and before the >)

It was the space before <

and the space after >
Interesting!! Thanks for figuring that out Kay.  I'll take care of it.
Is there a way for your app to ignore whitespace errors like that? I fixed those two profiles but I'd think you would be swamped by people asking the same question as more people use this tool.
Yes Tom, will be fixed in the next release.
+5 votes
I tried to look at this but it is way to complicated for me. I hope it works for others but this is something I just plan on ignoring.
by Dale Byers G2G Astronaut (1.7m points)
+6 votes
My 3 ones that you marked as unscorsed are in my family
by Elizabeth Alderdice G2G6 Mach 2 (27.1k points)
I'll send you a private message. It might take a while for me to get to this.
+6 votes
I like it, but I wish it would also have a column listing the profile manager.  Wish I could run it by watchlist also.  Thanks.
by Deb Williams G2G6 Mach 1 (13.8k points)
I'm not sure how difficult it would be to add the profile manager. I can investigate. The report is already so large it might make sense to just include this column in an exported CSV.

Fairly close approximation to watchlist is a WikiTree+ search for manager or creator. I plan to add examples for these to the help. If you are adventurous, go to WikiTree+ text search (and see the help there), run the search and click the Bio Check link there.
+6 votes
I have a note concerning Shaw-19551, I don't get a any help by using the application.  Please advise.
by John Shaw G2G Crew (380 points)
It is looking at your ancestors. Once you add your grandparents and their parents there should be more.
+4 votes
I had only two suggestions, and they were extremely simple to correct (problems I had not fixed in adopted profiles).
by Living Kelts G2G6 Pilot (550k points)
+7 votes
Thanks! Fixed what was there as missing, but will add as I can.
by K Thatcher G2G Crew (410 points)
+6 votes
Seems like a great app. How would I use it to check profiles I am the owner of?  Is there a WT+ trick?  I want to quality control my work.
by Matthew Evans G2G6 Mach 7 (73.6k points)
Thanks. I will add examples to help. Try a WT+ text search for manager or creator. Ales added a link to WT+ so you can start BioCheck from there.
+6 votes
Most of mine are 'no reference tags'. As I don't use this system do I still need to have that in the profile?
by Judith Robinson G2G6 Mach 2 (21.2k points)

Judith,

I would say yes, based on this https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Biographies

I think the intent is that consistency helps us with shared answers.

Nice bio for Marion. It makes me wonder if she had been caring for her cousin's children before her marriage.

Thx. I've actually been taking them out! But I'll stop that now.   I'm not sure about your 'cousin's children' comment. Marion's cousin's were all of an age with herself. Thanks for the complement about her bio. I've been looking at photos and reading letters and diaries the past 5 years or so, and this one profile is the one I've been able to do justice to based on all I've learned (so far!).  Funny how one learns about the grandparents life AFTER they're gone, lol.
+5 votes
Seems really good, thank you. However, one thing did come to mind. Instead of stepping it back one ancestor at a time, could you step it back one connection at a time? This way, when it goes back a generation, it also looks at sibling, uncles/aunts, cousins, other marriages etc.

I understand that we generally look at our tree as our ancestors from us up, but most of us when we build back, also research down to cousins, and branch out that way too.

If you could get it to search all of a persons connections, you would need to get it to then exclude the previous connections. Soif you look at 1st level connections, you would include both parents, all spouses and in children in first level search. In 2nd level search, you would go to all of the connections of all of your connections. The problem is, all of those connections would have a connection back to you. Also, each of the sibling would then connect to each other, which would be redundant, because they were found in the first level search. So the app would need to ignore all names previously found on the first level of connections, while producing second level. Likewise, third level of connections would have to ignore connections previously made on first and second level.

Hopefully that made sense, and provides a further idea.
by Ben Molesworth G2G6 Pilot (162k points)
Ben. You can put use profile Id for an ancestor check or anything you find with a WikiTree+ search for a check.

For anything you check, you can also check relatives. Right now relatives are only checked for profiles that are unsourced or maybe. Would it make sense to also check for profiles with style issues if you have selected to include those in the report? That should be pretty easy.

If you could check relatives for every profile it could expand exponentially to a very large list. My concern is how long this might take.

Yes I am all too aware of not double checking. From a technical perspective this all runs asynchronously.
Haven't got my head around Wikitree+ yet, though I have had some brief encounters with it. Yes, doing connections instead of ancestors would produce an exponetially larger result, but would still be constructive.
Next release Bio Check option to check relatives will apply to anything you report, including sourced profiles with style issues.
Thank you. I'll enjoy trying that. Actually, I often put children and siblings of people in, but don't work as hard on them, because they aren't ancestors. It will be great.
+5 votes

Note that the App does not deal with non-English biographies, see https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1133596/i-really-dont-understand-what-s-wrong-in-my-texts

by Michel Vorenhout G2G6 Pilot (316k points)
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