Please Review this profile

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I just created my first fully fleshed-out profile for my husband. I even figured out how to make the headlines work and use inline-citations. Can someone please do a sanity check before I create more profiles and tell me if there is anything they would do differently. He is also an active wiki-tree volunteer and has set his own profile to Private with Public Biography and Family Tree

Is there anything else you would include? Or anything you would omit?

Thank you
WikiTree profile: David Taylor
in Genealogy Help by Alicia Taylor G2G6 Mach 8 (87.8k points)
edited by Alicia Taylor

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Best answer

Hi Alicia, great profile for your husband. Please tell him Thank You for his service. I've got a couple of tips that might be useful.

Linking to Ancestry records - We have a source template for linking to Ancestry records. The cool thing about the template is that, if/when Ancestry changes the structure of their URLs, the links will continue to work as soon as one of the SysOp teams does a little magic. You can read more about this in the Links to Ancestry Help Page. Make sure to review the last section on how to use the templates within a complete citation.

Did you place the Military Sticker above or below the ==Biograhpy== heading? It is designed to be used below the heading. You can get the words to wrap around the sticker by placing it just above the paragraph of interest and putting a colon before the opening set brace (e.g. :{).

This part is strictly a thing I like but I figured I would share in case you haven't found out how to do it. I like my paragraphs to be indented below my headings, rather than starting at the left margin. To get the indent, use one or more colons to get it to format the way you would like it to. There are a bunch of formatting codes that you can read more about in the Editing Tips Help page.

by Debi Hoag G2G6 Pilot (393k points)
selected by Alicia Taylor
Thank you so much. Your feedback was exceedingly helpful. I hadn't seen the formatting page. I thought I had updated the links with the Ancestry template, but I guess I forgot to save it. I fixed that - and I didn't like that the paragraphs didn't indent! So, I fixed that with your very helpful tip - and bookmarked your link.
I think u did very well ...great job!
Thank you
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Great profile, Alicia. I did wonder if you want so much information in the public domain though.
by Fiona McMichael G2G6 Pilot (208k points)
It is my husband's profile and it's information he wanted included.  What would you not include?
I think that I agree with Fiona. It’s not what you wrote, but that it is public. Usually people keep living relatives on a red privacy level.
He is an active member of Wikitree and made the profile public himself. Don't most WikiTree Volunteers have public profiles? Or is there a more acceptable level of privacy?
Sorry thought you were writing a profile for a member of your family that isn’t an actual wikitreer.
No Problem. I updated the original question to make it more clear.

Hi - most WikiTreers do not keep their own profile as Public.  It's more usually Private with Public Biography and Tree (bright yellow) or Private with Public Tree (pale gold).  Some prefer Private (red), but then that won't show your family tree, so your opportunities for collaboration are severaly limited! wink

His is Private with Public Biography and Family Tree. I am still learning the Lingo. Thanks for clarifying

No problem, Alicia.  You stated it correctly in the original question.  The wording gets confusing because names of privacy levels are involved.  What Ros meant is that profiles of living people are not permitted to be public or open (public and open designate specifically named privacy levels used this way).

There are basically 2 privacy levels that living people can have - unlisted and private (again, the names of the privacy levels).  All living people who are not WikiTree members are required to be unlisted.  WikiTree members are required to be private, but there are 4 choices within that (further complicating things, I'm afraid).

  • private
  • private with public family tree
  • private with public biography
  • private with public family tree and biography (your husband's choice)
I hope this explanation helps (but am afraid that it may not).
+4 votes
A man that should be honoured. Thanks for posting.
by Peter Geary G2G6 Mach 5 (52.9k points)

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