EP BTT Suggestions

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Contents 1 Suggestions 2 What are Suggestions 3 Where to find your Suggestions 4 What to work on 5 Other Suggestions Reports 5.1 Your Close Connections 5.2 Profiles you have created 5.3 County Report 5.4 Other Reports

Suggestions

When I completed the Orphan Trail and joined my county team, I was unclear of how I should best start using my newly-acquired skills. Having set about sourcing and improving the biographies of my direct ancestors, I stumbled across the Suggestions for my Watchlist, but I wasn't sure how it worked or what to do with it.

This page has been created as a high level guide for England Project Members to help them find and work on Suggestions. It isn't a comprehensive guide. We would encourage you to ask questions on Discord where one of our more experienced members will be able to help you. (If you aren't on Discord, you can message your Team Leader, but it will probably take longer for you to get a reply.)

If anyone has suggestions as to how these notes can be improved, please contact me.

Steve Whitfield

What are Suggestions

The entire Wikitree database is downloaded each Saturday night/Sunday morning.

It is interrogated to produced lists of impossible or unlikely scenarios (eg children born after their mother has died), incorrectly completed fields (eg a birth location that contains an unrecognised country) or other issues that need investigation such as possible duplicate profiles. The updated Suggestions are typically available on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Suggestions can be accessed in a variety of reports so that we can work on lists of relatives, connected profiles, lists organised by country or county; or any group of people, places or categories in which someone has a particular interest.

By working on these Suggestions, our tree becomes increasingly accurate for the benefit of all.

Where to find your Suggestions

You can access the Suggestions for your Watchlist (from any Wikitree) page by clicking on the 'My Wikitree' dropdown menu (highlighted in blue on the screenshot below) and then on the Suggestions option (highlighted in red)

Your Watchlist is a great place to start working on Suggestions and learning about what the reports contain.

(If you want to fix Suggestions beyond your Watchlist, you could expand your efforts to one of the other areas outlined in "Other Suggestions Reports".)

What to work on

Suggestions Lists contain Errors, Warnings and Hints.

Each suggestion has a help page; and some also have an explanatory video.

A white question mark in a black circle (highlighted by the red arrow) links to a help page which explains the suggestion in more detail. Where a video is available, there is a white triangle in a small red box (highlighted by the red arrow).

To work on a profile in your list, click either on the Profile ID or the name of the person (both are highlighted in green oval shape).

When you have fixed the suggestion, you can mark it accordingly by clicking on the 'Status' button (circled in purple), which leads to a page on which you can complete the appropriate radio button and comments boxes.

When you have 'completed' a Suggestion it will be hidden from the report for the remainder of the week; and reassessed in the subsequent data download. If the issue has been addressed it will not appear in the new reports.

Wikitree's page on Suggestions describes various elements of Suggestions in more detail; and you will also find useful advice and information in the England Project's Data Doctor's Page.

Navigating and understanding suggestions is not particularly intuitive. If you are uncertain as to what you should be doing, ask on Discord or contact your Team Leader.

Other Suggestions Reports

There are many ways in which you can expand your area of interest beyond your Watchlist, including closely connected profiles, profiles you have created,and County Lists.

Your Close Connections

Following the process described in the section Where to find your Suggestions List, at the top of the screen, you will see a link "Show suggestions in profiles related to xxxxx-123" as highlighted below.

This will show Suggestions for your closest connections by 'generation'.

The list can be extended to further generations via the link at the bottom of the screen.

Profiles you have created

If you want to work on Suggestions for all the profiles you have created, you can run a query in Wikitree+. This will include profiles you created but subsequently orphaned. Click on this link to Wikitree+, which will open a new tab.

Expand the Text box (highlighted with the red circle) by dragging the bottom right hand corner, and replace Whitfield-2424 with your own ID.

Click on the "Suggestions" link (shown in red) for a list of suggestions for any profiles you have created.

County Report

You can access your county's perfomance statistics on this page. To work on your county's Suggestion Report, you can click on the Suggestions link at the top of your county's table on the England Project Statistics Page.

Other Reports

Suggestions reports can be created from any area that you might want to concentrate on such as a town, village or surname. This example Wikitree+ report shows list of profiles for people born in Blackburn, Lancashire in the 19th century, from which the 'Suggestions' link creates a list of profiles that can be worked on.

To create your own search, a degree of familiarity with Wikitree+ is needed. This guide to using Wikitree+ shows how Wikitree+ can be accessed and gives an outline of how to use this useful tool.