How do I report a wikitreer's actions?

Question

How do I report someone making changes to profiles I manage without providing documentation for any of the changes?

Answer 1

Follow this process: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Problems_with_Members .

Comments

Jamie, I think you are following the best course of action. Mistakes happen. Hopefully, the mess won't be too difficult to fix.

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Thank you that's what I thought but wanted to make sure I had not miss understood.

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Filing a "Problems with Members" form initiates a "disciplinary file" on the member.

@Nelda - This is not entirely accurate. The Problems with Members process is way to determine if there is an issue that needs to be addressed by someone ( a Mentor) who is equipped to teach and educate someone on the finer processes of being a WikiTree member; how we collaborate, share profiles, cite sources, etc.

As Ian mentioned, Question #6 in the process asks about contact with the member. In most situations, like the one discussed herein:

If you've gotten this far,

• you care about the problem,
• it's not an emergency,
• you're not angry about it, and
• you assume the person has good intentions.

You are the perfect person to contact them. :-)

There is nothing disciplinary about this process in and of itself.

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Steven, thanks for your clarification. I may not have been entirely correct on the terminology (disciplinary--which I put in quotes because I knew it wasn't exactly the right term--and mediator) and may not have detailed the exact steps of the process (mentorship is the first step in the conflict escalation process), but I gave good advice--try to work it out (collaborate) first with the other WikiTreer--which I believe should always be our first inclination, based on WikiTree's Honor Code and guidelines, rather than seeking a way to officially report someone which does initiate the first step of the conflict escalation process.

Fortunately, Jamie is now reaching out to the other WikiTreer and is willing to work with them without taking further steps which, hopefully, will be unnecessary.

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So now we have found out what caused the problem, they weren't able to revert back to the old version of the file. I can't seem to cause it to be reverted back to the old file, and I am not trying to cause this person any stress. Can someone help me by showing me how I can revert to the old version?

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@Jamie, in the change history, find the version that you need to revert back to. It will look something like this:

https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=West-13944&diff=next&oldid=65038152

There is a line at the top that says "If serious mistakes were made, you can restore..."

Click on that restore link and proceed through the process. If there were merges and relationship changes involved, those may not restore...

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There are no radio buttons to click for changes. It seems as though only the person who made the changes can revert the profile to its original state. Unfortunately, it seems that he wiped out most of the profile information, including name, dates, etc. I can see the last state of the profile in 2018, but I can't make the changes made two days ago.

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Anyone who signed the honor code and has access to the profile can restore changes to basic edits (excludes reverting merges or changes to last name at birth; excludes changes to relationships-- those have to be detached manually; may exclude marriage data as recently reported in g2g.) 

Also, it's not a radio button, Jamie. Look for the Changes *tab* across the top of the profile. Click that.

You'll see a list that represents the history of edits. Like this:

https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:NetworkFeed&who=Ball-11686

Click on the third one down ("edited the biography"). You should see this:

https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Ball-11686&diff=172157372&oldid=172157198

THEN you'll see what Steven referred to. At the top of that page you should see:

If serious mistakes were made, you can restore data from as it was 17:44, 23 April 2023.

If you click on that last link it will ask you which data you want to restore.

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Actually, for the older changes which I had done, there are things that you can select with a radio button. So, yeah, there is a radio button that isn't activated for the recent changes, and there are radio buttons for me to select to undo my old changes, which don't need to be changed. Anyone else able to assist? Here is the profile, and if you could revert back to the 2018 version, that would be wonderful! https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/West-13944

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Thanks for the link.  I see that the bulk of changes involved relationship changes. As I wrote above, those are excluded from the restore function.