As of May 3, there were 28,838 WikiTree profiles for people with West as their Last Name At Birth. That's an increase of 2,729 profiles since the beginning of June 2023.
I am introducing two more datasets this year. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission lists 1,525 war dead with a last name of West. So far, I have found three with WikiTree profiles (0.2%). ThePeerage.com lists 746 Wests. Of the ones I have tallied, 91 have a different Last Name At Birth, 53 are living, and there are nine duplicate entries, leaving a possible net of 593 deceased Wests. Of the 391 deceased West whose profiles I have tallied, 80 (33.6% of the possible net Wests) have WikiTree profiles. The Veterans Legacy Memorial lists 8,112 veterans with a surname of West. So far, I have found three with WikiTree profiles (0%). So far, I have tallied Wikipedia entries for 212 Wests. Of those, 65 are living, 12 have different Last Names At Birth, and 13 are fictional characters, leaving 122 deceased notable Wests. Of those, 40 (32.8%) have WikiTree profiles.
The percentage of all West profiles on WikiTree that are connected to the main tree has increased slightly from 88.7% to 89.1% since last June. The percentage of connected West profiles from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, ThePeerage.com, Veterans Legacy Memorial, Wikipedia, and our watchlists currently stand at 100%, 98.8%, 100%, 82.5%, and 100%, respectively.
I am no longer going to put up charts showing connection status (except possibly for the surnames with the smallest number of profiles) because the number of profiles is so huge that even relatively large changes in the number of profiles at each connection status don't result in visible changes in the charts.
The percentage of profiles from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, ThePeerage.com, Veterans Legacy Memorial, and Wikipedia that link back to that person's entry on that other site currently stand at 66.7%, 80%, 0%, and 80%, respectively.
The percentage of profiles from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, ThePeerage.com, Veterans Legacy Memorial, Wikipedia, and our watchlists that have images on them currently stand at 0%, 7.5%, 0%, 22.5%, and 1.8%, respectively.