Opinions on just deleting a new unsourced parental connection?

Question

Opinions on simply removing the parental connection when someone slams many thousands of profiles into WikiTree in a single day? There is no source for this connection, except an Ancestry tree and a made up FindAGrave record. So, no sources. 

I left a message on the profile, but when one makes 20k contributions in very short time, the chances of ever seeing it are pretty low.

I came to WikiTree to escape the plethora of copied and recopied records in this part of my tree 

Answer 1

I'd post a notice on both profiles explaining the situation.

Comments

I've done that.  Used an ancestry source and then didn't get back to it for a couple of days to fix it.  

I've started putting things like that in the "Notes" for others that come along before I fix it.  With some kind of clarifier like:  "Unsourced family trees say that she passed away in 1871."

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An unsourced mother was recently added to a profile I manage.  When I look at this member's other contributions, many are "sourced" by an unsourced ancestry tree -- which appears to belong to this same member.

I left a message on his profile requesting the source, but I really don't expect a response.  If no source is forthcoming, I'll be removing that connection this weekend.

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Answer 2

The newly added Mary Margaret profile references an ancestry.com tree which has no sources whatever for Nathaniel, Mary or daughter Mary Margaret regarding any of their relationships.

Just on the face of it, it doesn't seem at all likely that Nathaniel and Mary McClure uprooted from Virginia, with several children, moved to Louisiana, had a daughter named Mary Margaret with other daughters named Mary and Margaret, and then moved back to Virginia to have more children.

Nah. As suggested, give the PM a couple days (at most) and delete the connections. No sources, no connection.

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Exactly my reasoning. I'm guessing the old farm in Virginia doesn't work so well when traipsing across that much land area without modern conveniences. It's possible that Nathaniel and Mary's daughter Margaret (born the same year as this Mary Margaret, in theory), that married a Lee and moved south at some point became this Mrs. Ratliff, but that's a lot of guessing and fictious thought. There are a lot of Nathaniel McClure's in my family alone born in this era, and at least half the wives were named Mary.