Question

I've suggested people to the "Notables" category, I haven't had a response. They have a wikipedia page.

Answer 1

LIsa, you can add the notables category yourself, if the profile is open, by adding {{Notables}} to the profile. This also adds the category. Or try contacting one of the leaders by sending a private message or leaving a message on their profile. [Bob Fields, Abby Glann, and Erin Breen 

 

Comments

Hello, Anne  and all-

Lisa has a point. Folks trying to "get up to speed" about a subject will quickly enter cursory information into a search-engine like Google. They will then frequently land upon a Wikipedia article for their preliminary information.

As all of you know, Wikitree entries do show up easily via this same search-strategy.In fact, Googling my name was how I found Wikitree to begin with. My profile on Wikitree needed a bit of correcting so, voila, I was " hooked." (Cousin Bait worked, you might say.)

What is less likely to occur is that a great Wikitree Notable  profile "swims" to the surface in a sea of information about a well-known person. It would be nice if Wikitree's profile offering were right up there at the top after such a search. Our "stuff" is as good, as accurate and as timely as most Wikipedia articles, after all.

So can the "behind-the-scenes" engineers work to make this happen. Try Googling "Karl Benz" or "Jefferson Davis" without using special boolean filter words to see what I mean. I think the potential for Wikitree "expansion" into mainstream searches is enormous1

Thanks. Catch you on the tree...

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Thankyou, previously adding the notables myself didn't work, so I was told on this forum that I had to contact a leader.  Contacting Bob hasn't seemed to have worked either, I will try the other leaders names that you've given me.

Cheers

Lisa Smith

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Or any of us other industrious team members, if you like. I'd be more than happy to help out with any notables you want to point out, even if it's just a double-check to ensure your're on the right track.

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Thankyou very much Scott, however I seemed to have overcome the difficulties that I had been experiencing - by adding notables myself.

Kindly appreciated

Lisa Smith

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I just used the {{Notables}} on Yauch-25, but it did not automatically add the category; I had to manually add the category.