What are the profile manager's responsibilities?

Question

After rereading the Honor Code and looking at other material that we usually only look at once, when we start at Wikitree, I noticed that there seemed to be a missing statement on the responsibilities of a profile manager.  

I would like to add this.  It is implied in Collaboration and Accuracy as used in the Honor Code but it is obvious only after some thought and needs to be spelled out.

It is the responsibility of every profile manager to research and merge their duplicate profiles.

OK - do I have an agenda?  Of course I do, it is spelled out on my profile page.

 

Answer 1

Have to agree with you Philip. Seems like most don't merge unless you pester them which I hate doing. Adding a more clear statement to the honor code is a good idea.

Comments

I find exactly who does what during a merge confusing.  I get a request to merge, review, decide to merge then get a notice that I can't merge because I'm not on a new managers list. So now I have to fugure out how to work with two other people while trying to find out what I need to do. At the same time researching and trying to keep up. I think alot of us rookies are willing to do the work we don't intentionally  ignore requests, we just don't always know how to proceed. I feel like I'm imposing if I try to make contact to often. But I'm still hanging in there

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Trudy,

You aren't the first person to feel this way. I felt the same when I started as well.

Have you watched the merging video on Youtube? Good info.

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Merging#Managers_and_Trusted_Lists_of_merged_profiles

Do you have any pending merges right now that are confusing?  Just for an example?

If you are confused on a merge please post here and add an arborist tag. There are many arborists that will gladly help you with the merge. Merging does get easier. Don't  get  frustrated we're here to help!