What happened to my tree?

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in WikiTree Help by LaTonya Anonymous G2G Rookie (160 points)

Which tree was it? 

And any profiles placed in WT become Community Profiles, and can be edited by any PM (member) unless you have a Privacy Protection on them that prevents that 

WT is a Community Effort 

Hi LaTonya.  Could you explain in a little more detail exactly what you're expecting to see and aren't finding, and what you're trying to do?  There isn't any family tree data associated with your profile, and when I look at your contributions log it appears that you have deleted most of whatever you have uploaded.  There are two instances of what appear to be attempted GEDCOM uploads, but when you click on the links, the system says that you never actually uploaded the GEDCOMs.

You are currently a Family Member, which prevents you from creating and editing profiles from your GEDCOM:

Non-wiki genealogists with Family Member accounts can upload GEDCOMs to take advantage of GEDCOMpare as a search tool but cannot create or edit profiles with GEDCOMs.

You would need to sign the Honor Code to be able to create and edit profiles from your GEDCOM.

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It looks like you uploaded the tree, but have you completed the GEDCompare process?  Nothing is added to Wikitree until you compare every profile in your GEDCOM to ensure your profiles aren't duplicates of those already on Wikitree.  We have a single tree, which mean there should be only one profile for any individual.

Here is the information on GEDCompare.

Once you have completed the compare process, you will be able to add profiles.

by Kathy Rabenstein G2G6 Pilot (322k points)
Ah, that's another problem to tackle, LaTonya, when you load a gedcom (limited to no more than 5000 profiles) there is about a 60 day period of time in which you yourself are asked to compare each and every one of the loaded profiles with WT profiles to find out whether there are any duplicates.

You'll be asked to ADD if there are no duplicates is how I understand it. What happens with the duplicated files, I'm not sure but WT frowns upon DUPLICATES

Whatever is left over at the end of the time period that you have NOT compared and added, then vanishes. It isn't automatically loaded in ... you have some work to do first before the profiles are registered

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