Unsourced profiles - milestone, just 677 to go

Question

It is just a tad over a month, since the Oct 1st Source-A-Thon and we are 677 profiles away from adding as many profiles to the Unsourced category as we eliminated :(((  No telling how many unsourced have been added that don't have the template added.

ETA: in the time it took for me to type this posting, 7 more unsourced profiles were added

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Some of those are profiles that were here all along (for example, since 2011) but just recently got the Unsourced template added. I know, because I added some of those templates.

But I've also encountered a few members who've been merrily adding one unsourced profile after another.. and another ... and another...

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Egads, and it is not necessarily gedcoms

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And, meanwhile, I am still sourcing.  I'm sure others are, too.  Tell me when we're winning!  -NGP

Answer 1

The GEDCOM's do add to the problem but they are not as bad as they once were. The real problem is those that just add the template and do not even try to find sources. I do not do that with the unsourced profiles I find, I at least try to find a source and only add the template if I can't find one.

Answer 2

I've recently discovered that many, if not most, of my watched profiles already had the unsourced template on them, however they weren't being listed as unsourced due to a bug in WikiTree code until an edit in the biography was made.

I recently did update edits to each of those, so they would show up on my own list of unsourced profiles (but maybe only a dozen or two). I need to be able to work from an updatable list.