Trying to adopt these profiles, but nothing works [closed]

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I have two unsourced ancestors added to my tree.  They are orphan profiles, John Skantibewe (abt. 1460), and John Skantibewe (abt. 1485).  I am unable to edit these profiles to add the "Unsourced profile" category..

I am also unable to tidy up John Skantibew (abt. 1515 - 1594), his daughter in law Johan (Halland) Skantibew (1546 - 1599) is also effectively unsourced.

I see that the person who created these profiles has closed their account, so I suppose that I should adopt them, but my plea for help still stands.  However when I tried to do so, the pre1500 quiz link did not work, so I could not attain the requisite badge, and so am stuck

Any help would be gratefully received.

WikiTree profile: John Skantibewe
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in WikiTree Tech by Nick Miller G2G6 Mach 2 (25.7k points)
closed by Nick Miller
There is not really any use adopting the pre-1500 profiles without having the badge. There is almost nothing that you could do with them.

If you have sources to add to the profiles, you could post them here for someone with the badge to pick up and add.  Normally, you could also post this information in a comment on the profiles, but as there are no PMs for the profiles, probably the comment would go unnoticed.

2 Answers

+3 votes
The first two would require you to be Pre-1500 certified.
by John Vaskie G2G6 Pilot (215k points)
+4 votes

The pre-1500 certification is not a self-awarded quiz like the pre-1700.  You will need to fulfil all the requirements and then send off your request.  The answer and award can take several days.

The requirements are:

Here is the link to the form (but you probably already have it):
https://www.wikitree.com/contact/cert/

by Ros Haywood G2G Astronaut (1.9m points)

Thanks for the link, I did not find it, but have now submitted the completed form.  I did find a broken link to quizzes for pre 1700 and pre 1500 profiles.  Probably a leftover from an earlier system that needs cleaned out.  They can be found by clicking on the banner ad the head of the profile

Please see Pre-1500 Self-Certification. Thank you for understanding.

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