Project Protected - what project?

Question

if a profile is marked “Project Protected” why doesn’t it say what project. How do you find out what project it is a part of?

See sample profile as an example.

Comments

To answer your question, you open a discussion on G2G to determine if anyone has a need to continue to PPP the profile. Sometimes it is locked due to multiple edits or controversies and has no Project connected. This appears to be one that was just locked "because". It's a good reason to unlock it too.

You can also check the changes log for "who" made the changes and ask them if they remember why they locked it. Always good to go back to the source. In this case, that was done by "unlisted".

Answer 1

When a profile is project protected, it should have either a sticker (profile box) on the biography, or a project account as a Manager. For example, Steve Irwin has the Notables Project Box; Francis Scott Key has the US History Project as a Profile Manager.

If there is a specific profile you are looking at, please post that.

Comments

I edited the profile with an example as you were replying.

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Actually, I find the absence of identifying the project not uncommon.

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Many of the old project protected profiles were done before the policy was updated. This definitely appears to be the case here, as this was done back in 2013.

This appears to be a valid case for removal of PPP.

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This was locked by someone who is no longer a member of WikiTree and so we'll likely never know the reason why it was locked in the first place. Definitely a candidate for unlocking.

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Thanks for removing the ppp status. Perhaps it would be appropriate for someone with the necessary skills and administrator privileges do a wholesale review of these and remove all ppp for profiles that do not belong to a project.

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PPP is used for more than just projects - it is less frequent but vitally important when it is used to stop changes from occurring to a controversial profile. From time to time, some gateway ancestor who isn't within a project area is fought over by genealogists who all believe they are correct in changing it back and forth PPP can prevent changes once a decision has been reached on that profile so that we don't start that argument all over again.

It could be interesting to have an alternate means (something not called "project protection") that is used for these circumstances, but at the moment, this is the tool used for that purpose as well.