Can a PM delete my profile comments? Trying to understand the point of profile comments.

Question

I'm working on a profile that has the same name as the father and grandfather.  The grandfather is known as "senior," and the father as "junior" and the son just had the name.

Someone has added the "third" (III after the name) and this didn't sound right to me.  I had though the name on Wiki should match the name at birth and the name used in life.  If he didn't go by "III," it shouldn't be on his profile.

I looked it up and sure enough:

"Suffix

"Preferably, this should only be used for the Suffix at Birth."

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Name_Fields#Suffix

I posted this question, to the profile, and cited the above link and suggested that the profile should not carry the suffix.

One of the PMs deleted the message.

I suppose I could have just deleted the III but, I did my homework and read that I should engage in collaboration.

How can you collaborate if your question is censored.

This doesn't sound right to me.  I thought the whole point of the messages on the profiles were to discuss the profile and to come to a better understanding of the history (truth) of the person.

This just doesn't sound right to me.

 

Answer 1

Yes, the PM can delete a comment on a profile. In the spirit of collaboration you could also try a private message to the PM to discuss your views.

I see a lot of profiles where Senior, Junior, III, etc.,  have been applied in situations where they would never have been used by the ancestors concerned. It is particularly prevalent where III or IV in the sequence are in America where numbering is normal and people try to assign Senior and Junior to their English or Scottish ancestors where it was not normal among the working classes.

Comments

You lost me at "I have seen a lot of..."  If we see a lot of profiles posted without sources, doesn't make it appropriate.  In reading the Wikitree rulebook is says that you shouldn't apply a suffix if it wasn't used in the person's life.

I just read another thread (from a few years back) and one vet commented that they put Jr. and Sr. and folks putting in their trees think it is a different person because the individual was never called Jr. or Sr. and it created a lot of duplicates.

Yes, the PM can delete my question, I saw her do it.  My question, here, is, is it appropriate?

PM has already been sent; but in this thread, I'm trying to understand what's cool and what isn't.

thanks

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It is not good collaboration to delete a comment without responding.

As to the rest of my previous comment. I was not saying it was appropriate, just that it unfortunately happens a lot. I find it frustrating to find my ancestors suddenly given an inappropriate Sr/Jr/III when in real life their family distinguished them by varying the diminutive of the name, e.g., William, Willy, Bill, Billy or in some cases Big Bill and Little Bill.