Appalachia Project Managed Profiles

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Note: Currently, the Appalachia Project does not manage any profiles or pages, as it does not yet have a project account (which would serve as the manager for the project). However, once a project account is assigned, the project does not intend to have a "Managed Profiles Team". A project-managed profile for an Appalachian would be overseen by the appropriate regional team(s) or the leadership team (if needed). People profiles are categorized to the appropriate Appalachians category (e.g., a Notable Appalachian from West Virginia would be under Category: Appalachia, Notables and Category: West Virginia Appalachians).^[1] When the project has profiles that it manages, the project box will add a new category, "Appalachia Project Managed Profiles".

Regions of Appalachia: The project is organized into regional teams, which have some overlap of states. See the team pages for which counties in which states the team covers.

Team Space Pages - Northern | North Central | Central | South Central | Southern

Contents 1 Managed and Protected Profile Requests 1.1 Project-Managed Profiles 1.1.1 Criteria for Protected Profiles 1.1.2 Criteria for Managed Profiles

Managed and Protected Profile Requests

Do you know of a profile for an Appalachian that you think would benefit from project management or that needs project protection (PPP)?

Please post a comment with the WikiTree ID and the reason(s) why. The project leadership will review the profile and get back to you (within a week is the goal).

If approved, the project can add the necessary elements - project account, project box, and categories - to profiles of people who were born at least 200 years, otherwise we can work with you to get them added. And if not approved, we'll work with you on adding the appropriate categories and Appalachia sticker to the profile (see Appalachia Project Stickers and Categorization Guidance).

Project-Managed Profiles

To be considered for management by the Appalachia Project, the person should be an Appalachian or someone strongly associated with Appalachia (e.g., the rare writers or researchers who may be well known for their work in Appalachia but have not themselves ever lived in Appalachia). It must also be a person that is not an obvious match for another project (i.e. US Presidents).

The Project defines Appalachia as the land that is today listed as an Appalachian county by the Appalachian Regional Commission. All of these counties have category pages - see the tables on the project's Counties of Appalachia.

Considering how many people that encompasses, and the need to hold the project's watchlist to 5000 profiles, we obviously cannot manage all profiles that may be suggested, especially since we do not want to turn down a profile for an Apalachian that needs to be protected.

Criteria for Protected Profiles

Per WikiTree Guidelines for project protection, profiles that are controversial or duplicated are eligible for PPP, provided the person the profile represents was born at least 200 years ago - Notables are an exception to the age requirement (see the Qualifications posted by the Notables Project).

Criteria for Managed Profiles

If a profile would be a strong candidate for protection (PPP) but is not old enough, then being a managed profile is the next best thing. "Strong candidate" and the following criteria are subjective, but you might find the information useful in deciding whether or not the profile you have in mind needs to be managed by the Appalachia Project.

The following factors are considered when reviewing a profile representing an Appalachian:

1. easily confused with others of the same name, resulting in conflation (e.g., facts about others incorrectly added to the profile or inappropriate merges)
2. subject of confusion, controversy, or dispute
3. belongs to a sub-project or mini-project that falls within Appalachia
4. is the head (or nuclear member) of a prominent Appalachian family
5. is closely related to a Notable Appalachian (note that in some cases, a "halo" effect may apply to a notable's family, making them eligible for PPP even if born after 1822)

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Footnotes

1. ↑ See Category: Appalachians for links to the 13 state-level categories. If someone was born in West Virginia but lived most of their life in, say, Washington County, Maryland, they be under both Category: West Virginia Appalachians and Category: Maryland Appalachians. If a profile under Category: Appalachia, Notables is not actually an Appalachian (rare, but possible - a notable writer or researcher who was not born in Appalachia and never lived in Appalachia, as defined by the Appalachian Regional Commission's list of today's Appalachian counties - see Counties of Appalachia for links to the category pages of those counties).