maintenance category for unlinked profiles?

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Do we have (or can we make) a maintenance category for unlinked profiles?  Those profiles we run across with no parents, spouse, or children?  I feel like without family links these folks are just "lost" in the wiki.

Or maybe it is just my OCD wanting to put everything into nice categories ...
in Policy and Style by Andrea Powell G2G6 Mach 4 (44.9k points)
Good idea.

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Andrea,

Anything that helps improve profiles seems like a good idea.

I have set up the basic structure.

Category: Unlinked Profiles

Category: United States Unlinked Profiles

Category: Louisiana Unlinked Profiles

The format follows the structure for Unsourced profiles - I suspect most of these profiles will fit in both categories.

Note there is an existing category -

Category: Global Family Reunion Unconnected  

The most specific category possible should be used.  

by Philip Smith G2G6 Pilot (337k points)
selected by Andrea Powell

Thank you Phillip, now I feel less guilty about detaching Jesse from his 128 year old parents :)

I left a clue on his profile as to who he *may* be, but having spent the last few hours attached Al Gore to "my" Quakers, it is time for bed.  My first brush with wiki-celebrity, big day, lol.

Could you please add an Acadian/French Canadian Unlinked profiles category.

 

Thanks

Dawn,

It looks like we have Acadian and Canadian categories but not a specific Acadian/Canadian one.

I set up two - this follows unsourced.

Category: Canadian Unlinked Profiles

Category: Acadian Unlinked Profiles

 

hmmm, it occurs to me...I don't know if these are Canadian, Acadian or American...they could even be French for all I know. All I have is names and they are married to each other.  I added them to Canadian, Acadian and US.
Dawn,

Using multiple categories in this case makes sense.  Hopefully it will make them easier to find, linked and sourced.
+4 votes
Another possibility is the Category: Global_Family_Reunion_Unconnected category. The folks in that one are not connected to the Global Tree, though they may have some family attached.
by Abby Glann G2G6 Pilot (722k points)

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