Is it possible to download the previous profile before it was edited?

Question

Several of us who participated in creating the profile want the previous version before it was edited on 17 July.

Comments

What's the problem with the changes? Looks like the source citations were fleshed out.

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No, the citations were edited down.

Answer 1

Catharina (Müller-2496) Heÿl  before 17 July updates

Comments

Kathy, I use free-space pages using public privacy setting to protect my research from changes and then use that page as a source on profiles. Usually the page is about many people and if changes are needed then there is only one place to change.

If you ask to be on the trusted list for Catharina (Müller-2496) Heÿl then I'll make you manager and remove myself. 

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Thank you, Pat. I believe that adding me as manager would be agreeable with the other two profile managers--we have collaborated on this and other profiles and have a good working relationship.

Kathy

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Thanks, Peggy

Answer 2

Go to https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=M%C3%BCller-2496&action=history to see a technical version of the page history. Click on a hyperlinked date to see what the page looked like after that edit. For example, here's the version that existed after the second edit on 15 July.

This won't show you what the data fields looked like, but you should be able to figure that out by using the "Compare Selected Versions" buttons on that history page.

Comments

Not sure it's helpful, but I'll just add that I once wanted to retrieve a long post to a profile that I was working on that someone else had made and then deleted.  I went to the changes listing, highlighted the deleted paragraph and pasted it into my own profile, did a preview and took a screen print, then didn't update my profile.

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Great. Thanks for both the answers.

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Data fields were not affected.

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Pat, what was your reasoning for changing the sourcing as you did?

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Jillaiine, It was no different than any other profile I run into while on another project.

 I was working on the files that I inherited from Jerry Cox after he passed. In the process of checking files for portions of Jerry's Notes listed on Cox-5399 personal categories. One of those files was Catharina Dales-46 Hoyle which was one of many profiles which is now part of Catharina Müller-2496 Heÿl.

I found no evidence of her in his notes. While looking at the profile I added what I thought was an improvement or two. Then I moved on to the next task. If I thought that type of changes required project approval, I would have either asked first or left the profile unchanged.

What follows is generally what I do when improving sources:

I always use a link title when adding a url to prevent long urls from running off the screen.

Placing both main source information and citation details between <ref> and </ref> slows down finding specific info about source. On profiles that cite more than one reference for a source the main source is repeated each time. By using bold text for the author's last name scanning the text helps locate information quicker and easier.

Profiles look more complete and organized with the main source information separated from the citation (especially on profiles that use more than one text within a source). Using bold text for the author's last name is almost as good as the span coding used in Ancestry GEDCOMs that many dislike. The simpler format replaces the more complex and disliked span coding. (When cleaning GEDCOMS it's easy to replace that part of the source and move on to updating the rest of  the source whenever possible.) Format of the citations I normally add:

 <ref> author's last name, [URL link title]. Any other appropriate info  </ref> 

 [URL link title] can be replaced with templates for FindAGrave or Ancestry ...

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Thanks for the explanation, Pat.