Database error suggestion: This biography is a rough draft

Question

Suggestion a new Database Error for profiles with the text

"This biography is a rough draft. It was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import and needs to be edited."

Benefit as database errors easy can be find with all profiles in your watch list or profiles created by me or Descendant to (http://wikitree.sdms.si)....
it will be easier to find profiles you work with that needs cleaning.....

Google search site:WikiTree.com/Wiki "This biography is a rough draft"

About 163 000 results (0,34 seconds) 

Comments

Not really an error as such, but a very good pointer to bits of the tree that would most benefit from some more input.

Very useful for people like me doing one-name studies. Not that I really need more work to do.

Answer 1

For gedcom, first error will be if there is presence of text Could not interpret date in since this means import of a profile was not done completely and there is some data to add to the profile. If it was corrected, this text should be deleted. It is 71000 of them. 

I did also search for texts GEDCOM and .ged in bio, but they appear in 3,5 and 4 million profiles, so that shouldn't be added as an error.

Answer 2

It may well help some people, though since I haven't imported any GEDCOMs and i think I've always cleaned up when I've adopted a profile, it probably doesn't help me.  The only way I think it'd help me would be if there's a merge which I didn't get back to.  Or perhaps if i have ancestors which I'm not a PM of which aren't cleaned up and I get in the mood to do so.

Comments

As we work in one big connected tree it will help you ;-)

Answer 3

That text was auto generated by WikiTree and not added by any user so it should not be an error. It should be removed when GEDCOM cleanup is done and a biography section added.

Comments

Its an error that the clean up has not been done

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That would be a big help, that is where so many of the problems exist. I have created thousands of profiles, Most by hand, but I have adopted many hundreds, and have an interest in hundreds more that have been abandoned.  I do a lot more than just my family here, so anything to help point out where problems exist are very helpful.

I not entering the sourcers challenge, or competing, because it takes too much time to document,  but every month I clean up dozens if not hundreds of profiles, and will continue to do so as long as its needed.

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Maybe not technically an "error", but a "flag" that the profile needs some TLC...

Answer 4

I like this idea, but it does not have to be an error, just a grouping.

Here's why:  we are all volunteers, with conflicting priorities in our lives.  If we have the time to write a bio, we can look at the list.  Our days are full of interruptions; work, family, friends,hobbies,tax returns, you name it. Plus, we are learning the art AND science of genealogy, using the tools we can afford.

So this would help us -- we can chip away at the list as we have time..