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6 Dec 2020
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This page details advanced difficulty level suggestions require multiple steps, research, and combines more than one intermediate function to resolve. (Examples: Merging, Clean up Profile after merges, duplicate sources).
| Suggestions and Data Doctors Project - Related Page Links | |||
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| Suggestions Guidelines | Suggestion Reports & Status Page | Status Page | Project Home Page |
| Easy Level Suggestions | Intermediate Level Suggestions | Suggestions Groups & More | Advanced Level Suggestions (this page) |
The process and reports needed are here: Suggestions Guidelines.
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Advanced Difficulty Level Suggestions
Advanced level suggestions involve several steps to resolve so require knowledge and skills in WikiTree guidelines for fields, biography, sourcing and genealogical research.
Organized by Suggestion Groups in the tables below with links to each suggestion's help page for a full description, methods, and hints on how to correct the suggestion. Video links are provided where there is a topic video for the group, or individual suggestion's videos.
Date Suggestions
- Date Suggestions indicate issues in the birth, marriage or death Date Fields. See also: Estimated Dates.
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Mr. E Just Wants Good Dates - Why Is That So Difficult?
An Introduction to Dates and Dating Issues
Individual Suggestions Videos linked below. |
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| Type | Name & Description (links to suggestion page) | Common Cause |
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| Error | 113 Duplicate relative: This person has the same relative appearing as two or more relatives on the their profile. | One of the two relationships is wrong. Identify false relationship and delete it or replace it with correct one. |
Error  | 131 No Dates - No Dates on relatives - Open - Unknown Status: Both Birth and death dates are missing on this profile. | There are no data on this profile or any attached relation profiles to estimate birth or death dates. |
| Warning | 132 No Dates - No Dates on relatives - Open - Status Died: The profile information indicates this person is deceased, but both birth and death dates are missing. | There are no data on this profile or any attached relation profiles to estimate birth or death dates. |
| Error | 133 No Dates - Dates on relatives - Open - Unknown Status: Both Birth and death dates are missing on this profile. | There may be sufficient data on the attached relation profiles to estimate a birth or death date. |
| Warning | 134 No Dates - Dates on relatives - Open - Status Died: This person is marked as dead, but all birth and death information are missing on this profile. | There may be sufficient data on attached relation profiles to estimate a birth or death date. |
| Error | 202 Parents are same: This person's mother and father are the same person. | The incorrect relationship should be deleted or replaced with the correct one. Incorrect linking of one or both parents caused this. |
| Error | 203 Father is Female: The gender of the father of this person is female. | Correct the gender of the father or replace the current father with the correct one (watch for a possible reversal of mother and father). |
| Error | 205 Father is too young or not born: The father was either not born or under ten years old at the time of this person's birth. | Either a birth date or the relationship is incorrect. |
| Error | 206 Father is too old: The father was either over 99 years old or deceased at the birth of this person. | Either a birth or death date is incorrect, or the relationship is incorrect. |
| Error | 301 Mother is self: This person is their own mother. | The relationship should be deleted or replaced with the correct mother. |
| Error | 303 Mother is Male: The gender of the mother of this person is male. | Correct the gender of the mother or replace the current mother with the correct one. (watch for a possible reversal of mother and father) |
| Error | 305 Mother is too young or not born: The mother was either not born or under ten years old at this person's birth. | Either a birth date or the relationship is incorrect. |
| Error | 306 Mother is too old: This person's mother was either over 99 years old or deceased at the birth of this person. | Either a birth or death date is incorrect, or the relationship is incorrect. |
| Error | 307 Mother is also a child: This person is their own mother. | The parent-child relationship should be deleted or replaced with the correct one. |
| Error | 407 Lived too long after marriage: The person lived over 115 years while married. | Either the death or marriage dates are wrong or the relationship is incorrect. If the correct relationship, death or marriage date is known it should be entered. |
Relationship Suggestions
- Relationship issues arise from incorrect connections between parents, siblings, or spouses. Check Relationship Status for more information.
- Some of these advanced suggestions are managed by other projects, so you must be a badged member of the named project to work on those suggestions.
| Type & Link | Name & Description (links to the suggestion page) | Common Cause |
| Error | 113 Duplicate in relatives: This person has a relative appearing as two or more separate entries on their profile | Relationships are incorrectly linked. |
| Error | 201 Father is self: This person is their own father. | The relationship should be deleted or replaced with the correct father. |
| Error | 207 Father is also a child: This person is their own father. The parent-child relationship should be deleted or replaced with the correct one. | Incorrect connections. |
| Error | 208 Father is also a spouse: This person's father is also her husband, but this is rarely true. | The relationship should be deleted or replaced with the correct one. |
| Error | 209 Father is also a sibling: This person's father is also their sibling. | If there is no 201 error on this profile, the problem is in the mother's children. The mother's children should be corrected. |
| Error | 213 Missing fathers DNA confirmation: Father is marked ‘confirmed with DNA’, but the words ‘paternal’ and ‘confirmed’ do not appear in the biography. | This suggestion is overseen by the DNA Project. |
| Error | 308 Mother is also a spouse: This person's mother is also his wife, which is rarely true. | The relationship should be removed or replaced with the correct spouse. |
| Error | 309 Mother is also a sibling: This person's mother is also their sibling. If there is no 301 error on this profile, the problem is in the father's children. | Correct the father's children. |
| Error | 313 Missing mothers DNA confirmation: Mother is marked ‘confirmed with DNA’, but the words ‘maternal’ and ‘confirmed’ do not appear in the biography. | This suggestion is overseen by the DNA Project. |
| Error | 408 Multiple marriages on same day: The person married more than one spouse on the same day. | If one marriage date is incorrect, fix it, or if the spouses are duplicates, merge them |
| Error | 409 Marriage to duplicate person: The person married more than one person with the same name. | If the spouses are duplicates, merge them. |
| Error | 418 Spouse is a sibling: The person's spouse has one of the same parents. This is not impossible but unlikely. | Incorrect connection. If the problem can be determined, correct it. |
| Warning | 420 Unmarried parents with other marriages: These parents have a common child, but no marriage between them is recorded, although other marriages are listed. The common cause is older faulty gedcom imports. | Try to find the marriage record and enter the marriage details. Note that in the Research Notes section, if one cannot be found. Merges may be needed for the "other" marriage. |
| Error | 901 Unconnected empty public profile: This public profile has no relations - parents, children, and marriage and no birth and death date or location data. | This error is Connectors Project-related and is not usually part of the Data Doctors work. |
| Error | 902 Unconnected empty open profile: This open profile has no relations - parents, children and marriage and no birth and death date or location data. | This error is Connectors Project-related and is not usually part of the Data Doctors work. |
Name Suggestions
| WikiTree Style and Guidelines - Naming Conventions and Name Fields | |||
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| Name Displays | Name Field Guidelines | Prefix Field | Suffix Field |
| General Naming Conventions | Special Naming Conventions | Correcting a Last Name at Birth | The Rules |
Name Suggestions are errors or warnings in the profile's Name Fields. The causes range from typos to wrong data entered in the name fields, or misinterpretation of naming conventions. |
| Type & Link | Name & Description (links to the suggestion page) | Common Cause |
| Error | 771 Separator in last name at birth: There is a separator in the last name at birth field. Examples include "/", "-", ",", "(" and ")". | Separators should normally not be used in the last name at birth field. |
| Error | 911 Swedish patronym DOTTER for male: Profile's gender is male and patronym indicates it should be female. | Wrong patronym or wrong gender. Need advanced knowledge of patronymics, Swedish naming conventions, or be a badged member of the Sweden Project. |
| Error | 912 Swedish patronym SSON for femaleWrong patronym or wrong gender. | Need advanced knowledge of patronymics, Swedish naming conventions, or be a badged member of the Sweden Project. |
| Warning | 913 Swedish patronym DOTTER abbreviated Abbreviation for -dotter was used. | Need advanced knowledge of patronymics, Swedish naming conventions, or be a badged member of the Sweden Project. |
Privacy Suggestions
PPP, Project Account, & ProjectBox Suggestions
- It is important that you are very familiar with the profiles' project, timeframe and location of the profiles on the Suggestions Report for the following suggestions.
- Ask any questions in the G2G with the tags Data Doctors and Privacy Group Suggestions, or the Data Doctors Google Group (if you are a member). If the question involves a particular suggestion, include a tag Suggestion ### and a profile link where the suggestion appears.
- When a project decides it will manage a profile, the project's Project Account (PA) becomes a Profile Manager (PM) for the profile. The project might then designate it as a Project Protected Profile (PPP), and occasionally green lock the project-managed profiles. In that case, anyone who is not a PM, or on the Trusted List (TL) of the profile cannot directly resolve the suggestion, and must send a private message (pm) to the PA about an issue on the profile, or a comment on the specific profile the PA will receive.
- In this group of suggestions, some sort of mismatches in the PPP, PB, and PA relationships exist, or the ProjectBox is used instead of the project sticker. This is where the list of projects helps as both the ProjectBox and sticker information are on the project page.
- The crucial knowledge for working on the following suggestions are in this table. Especially important are bolded and italicized.
- In addition to the topics below, review the Privacy Suggestions Group page for additional instruction.
| WikiTree Style and Guidelines - Project Protected Profile, ProjectBox, and Project Account Information | |||||
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| Project Protection | Project Protecting and Merging | Project-Managed Profiles | Project Boxes | Template: Project Box | Stickers |
| List of Projects | Project Accounts | Link to Project Accounts Pages | List of Project Accounts WTIDs | Communication Before Editing | Special Situations |
- These suggestions are intermediate and advanced difficulty levels and require fully understanding the definitions, suggestions issues, and resolutions before working on them.
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| PPP (Project Protected Profile) icon Look for this image on the profile for these suggestions (where PPP is in the title). |
| Type & Link | Name & Description (links to the suggestion page) | Common Cause |
| Error | 921 PPP Without Project Account and without ProjectBox: Profile is PPP (Project Protected Profile) but doesn't belong to any project. This profile is locked but the birth date is greater than 150 years in the past. | The Profile was protected by the old rules, or project was removed from profile. Either the profile should be opened or, if wrong, the birth date should be corrected. |
| Warning | 924 PPP with Multiple Project Accounts: Profile has PPP (Project Protected Profile) and is managed by multiple projects. Profile management is assigned to multiple projects. | Profile management is assigned to multiple projects. |
| Warning | 925 PPP with Multiple Project boxes: Profile has PPP (Project Protected Profile) and has multiple Project Boxes. | Multiple Project Boxes were placed on the profile. |
| Error | 926 PPP With unpaired Project Account and ProjectBox: Profile has PPP (Project Protected Profile) and Project Boxes don't match Project Accounts on the profiles. | Project box changed to another project, but profile management wasn't. |
| Error | 927 PPP With duplicated ProjectBoxes: Profile has PPP (Project Protected Profile) and has multiple Project Boxes that belong to the same project. | Too many Project boxes were added to the profile. |
| Warning | 932 Multiple Project boxes: Profile has multiple Project Boxes. | Multiple Project Boxes were placed on the profile. |
| Warning | 934 Multiple Project Accounts: Profile is managed by multiple projects. | Profile management is assigned to multiple projects. |
| Error | 935 Unpaired Project Account and ProjectBox: Project Boxes on a profile don't match Project Accounts on the profile. | Too many Project Boxes were added to the profile. |
| Error | 936 Duplicated ProjectBoxes: Profile has multiple Project Boxes that belong to the same project. | Project box was added to the profile more than once. |
Biography Suggestions
- Biography Suggestions are generated from issues in the narrative section of the profile. The Easy level suggestions are errors of headings typos. Please see:
| WikiTree Style and Guidelines - Biography Information | ||
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| Biographies | Editing Tips | Text Sections |
| Type & Link | Name & Description (links to the suggestion page) | Common Cause |
| Warning | 801 Big biography: The profile's biography is quite large. | A big biography isn't necessarily an error. It is just a warning that the biography may be overly wordy. |
| Warning | 802 Empty biography: The profile's biography is empty. Since the biography contains the sources for the profile, this indicates that the profile is unsourced. | No work has been done on the biography. |
| Warning | 803 Almost empty biography: The character count in the biography of this profile is very small. Since the biography contains the sources for the profile, a short biography may be indicative of an unsourced profile. | No research was done. |
| Error | 811 Uncleaned profile after merge: This profile is the result has been merged. | The biography has not been cleaned up and reorganized. Each biography should have one set of contents and one sources section. |
| Error | 831 Multiple duplicated lines: The biography in this profile has one or more cases of repeated lines or paragraphs, possibly the result of merging or data imports. | Gedcom import was not cleaned up. Duplicate lines and paragraphs should be deleted. |
| Error | 835 Local file reference: The biography in this profile has references to files contained on the author, editor or creators' local computer. | These files are not visible on the Internet. See the 835 suggestion page for an example. |
| Warning | 851 GEDCOM uncleaned Interpret date: The biography of this profile contains a warning from the GEDCOM import program that a date in the GEDCOM import could not be interpreted. | If the correct date is in the indicated field, this warning may be deleted. |
| Warning | 852 GEDCOM uncleaned Parse Last name: The biography of this profile contains a warning from the GEDCOM import program that the last name in the GEDCOM import could not be parsed. | If the correct name is in the last name field, this warning may be deleted in the biography. |
References Tags and Inline Citations Suggestions
| WikiTree Style and Guidelines - Sources and References | ||
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| Sources | Sources and References | Sources and References Editing Tips |
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| Type & Link | Name & Description (links to the suggestion page) | Common Cause |
| Error | 867 Too many Inline citations: Profile has too many inline citations "<ref>"..."</ref>". | Usually several references were added by an old GEDCOM import, most often from Ancestry; or
the merge cleanup was not done properly and there are many duplicated references. |
| Error video | 868 Inline citations after <references /> tag: Profile has inline citations "<ref>"..."</ref>" after the "<references/>" tag that displays them. Such citations are not displayed on the profile. | Gedcom cleanup wasn't done correctly or <ref></ref> tags are used after the Sources heading. |
| Error | 869 Duplicated named Inline citations: Profile has two or more inline references have the same name. | This results in display of only the first reference because the name is incorrect, or not defined in the first instance of the citation. |
| Error | 870 Missing named Inline citations: Profile is using named inline reference "<ref name="SomeName" />", that is not defined by "<ref name="SomeName">"..."</ref>". | The named inline references is not actually defined or inadvertently moved to an incorrect location in the profile. |
Template Suggestions
- Templates are a particular part of wiki markup used on WikiTree to insert feature boxes on profiles and for special formatting.
- For Advanced Suggestions, WikiTree members need to have advanced WikiTree skills working on templates and these related suggestions.
- To work on these issues, you must know what templates are and how they are used in WikiTree. See these pages for further description of the issues involved in these suggestions. WikiTree members need to have advanced WikiTree skills to work on templates.
| WikiTree Style and Guidelines - Templates | |||
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| Help - Templates | Template Guidelines | Creating a Template | List of Templates |
| Type & Link | Name & Description (links to the suggestion page) | Common Cause |
| Error | 843 Missing template (spelling): There is an error in a template name in the biography of the profile. | It could be a spelling mistake, a template that no longer exists, or a template that is not yet created. |
| Error | 844 Out of use template: A template in the biography of this profile is being used incorrectly. | This may mean that the template is a base template and is not to be used directly, the template is no longer active, or the template has been replaced. |
| Error | 845 Direct usage of base templates: The biography in the profile contains a base project template such as {{Project Box|etc}} or {{Sticker|etc}}. | Base templates should not be used and should be replaced with the appropriate template, for instance {{Roll of Honor|etc...}}. |
| Error | 846 Died before template time frame: The template used in the biography of the profile has a time constraint. | The death date on the profile is prior the template date range. |
| Error | 847 Born after template time frame: The template used in the biography of the profile has a time constraint. | The birth date on the profile is after the template date range. |
| Error | 848 Error in template parameters: A template in the biography of the profile has one or more unacceptable values. | Please see the suggestion page for the appropriate template for correct values. |
| Error | 891 Missing template (system): Template is missing. | There is a spelling error in template name, or the template could have been deleted from WikiTree,or the template never existed. |
Wikidata Suggestions
- Some WikiTree profiles are matched with a profile in Wikidata. See Wikidata. These suggestions point to differences between the Wikitree and Wikidata items. When working on these suggestions, please keep in mind that Wikidata is not a source. All differences should be researched to determine which entry contains the most accurate data
| Type & Link | Name & Description (links to the suggestion page) | Common Cause |
| Warning | 542 Wikidata - Possible Father on Wikidata: Some WikiTree profiles are matched with a profile in Wikidata. See Wikidata. This suggestion indicates that there is a father on Wikidata that can be connected to a WikiTree profile. | There is also a possibility of some error on either WikiTree or Wikidata that should be found and resolved. |
| Warning | 544 Wikidata - Possible Mother on Wikidata: Some WikiTree profiles are matched with a profile in Wikidata. See Wikidata. This suggestion indicates that there is a mother on Wikidata that can be connected to a WikiTree profile. | There is also a possibility of some error on either WikiTree or Wikidata that should be found and resolved. |
| Hint | 563 Wikidata - Possible duplicate by father: The father identified in the Wikitree profile is different from the one in the corresponding Wikidata profile. | This may indicate a possible duplicate father on Wikitree. |
| Hint | 565 Wikidata - Possible duplicate by mother: The mother identified in the Wikitree profile is different from the one in the corresponding Wikidata This may indicate a possible duplicate mother on Wikitree. | The mother's profile may have been duplicated and needs to be researched and merged. |
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- This page is part of the Data Doctors Project.
- Latest report: October 6th 2024.
- Custom reports by: Suggestion lists, Unsourced lists, Unconnected lists.
- See
for custom reports and statistics and our Video Collection.
- Latest ProjectBox Report: Project Report
- Latest Categories Report: Categories Suggestions Report
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Collaboration
- Login to request to the join the Trusted List so that you can edit and add images.
- Private Messages: Contact the Profile Managers privately: Aleš Trtnik, Janet Wild, and Data Doctors Project WikiTree. (Best when privacy is an issue.)
- Public Comments: Login to post. (Best for messages specifically directed to those editing this profile. Limit 20 per day.)
- Public Q&A: These will appear above and in the Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum. (Best for anything directed to the wider genealogy community.)
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