What makes an appropriate profile comment?

Question

Maybe this should be obvious, but I can't find any written guidance.

What is the purpose of comments on profiles, or to put it another way, what is appropriate?  Imaginary examples:

1. I knew this guy when I was a kid.  He was a great guy and a friend of my parents.
2. I don't have enough data to prove it, but this profile may combine John Doe of Chester county Pennsylvania and John Doe of Chester, Pennsylvania in Delaware county.
3. Great profile.  The mix of photos and text is very helpful and the sources are complete.

Do these represent acceptable types of comments?  Any other advice?

Thanks!

Comments

Steve's example #2 is a great example of the kind of comment that belongs in a profile message.

Answer 1

There is a space called “Memories” for personal comments or remarks about the profiled person.  

Just my opinion, but I think profile comments (other than comments on the profile of an active member) should be genealogically relevant, a question about something stated as fact, information supporting or questioning a theory, noting what might be an error or conflation, offering an additional source, information for a proposed merge, and the like,

Since profiles can easily be changed, I also think comments on the perceived quality or appearance of a profile are more appropriately posted directly to the PM or contributor. If you think someone has done a super job on profile you can make an appreciation post here on G2G.

Comments

Great answer, but it raises one more question.  Which profiles have memories spaces?  Just trying things it doesn't seem to be date or relationship alone.  Perhaps a combination?

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Here's the Help page:  Help:Memories (wikitree.com)

Only "Modern" profiles have a memories space because it's meant to be first person, meaning your specific memory of someone.  In practice, I think that means "born in the 20th century or later" because my parents have space for memories, but my grandparents (born in the 19th century) don't.  

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And yet, my grandparents have memory sections and they were born in the 1890s.

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Looking at my watchlist, it seems that profiles born less than 200 years ago have a memory space.

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This is very strange.  When asking my second question I carefully checked several profiles and found that some from the 1900s had no "Post New Memory" button.  Now one of the ones I checked has the button!

It's almost as if my whole question was based on a temporary glitch.  In any case, thanks for the answer and all the comments.  I know more than I did before and I can post the memory I had in mind.

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I think older memories are a leftover from Wikitree's early years.  Something changed at some point and we can no longer add memories to older profiles.

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It depends on what is considered "older".   Maybe the "cutoff" is before 1845-ish, because I can add a memory to a profile where the person was born in 1849, died in 1917.

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I think when we discussed the change, it was decided the cutoff should be anyone born over 120 years ago.

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Oh, I have memories of my grandparents because, for me, their way of life, in many cases, has mostly disappeared and, sometimes, those memories also paint a picture of the era they lived in.  One set of my grandparents heated their entire house with a coal-burning pot-bellied stove.

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I haven't tested this but I haven't had any problem, so far, with just adding ==Memories== to a profile.

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If you add a Memories subheading, use three (or even four, but not two) === on each side of heading text (the two == is reserved for Biography, Sources and Research Notes only) to create the correct size heading, per WT guidelines.