England Project: Profile Adoption Process

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This page is to explain what members should expect when an English profile is adopted by the England Project.
This guidance is in addition to the general WikiTree guidance about Project Management.

Contents 1 Terms used on this page 2 Adoption process and Trusted List membership 2.1 Living Notables 2.2 Non-Living Notables (Uncontentious) 2.3 Royalty 2.4 Contentious or Disputed Profiles 3 Profile Style and Editing 4 Sources

Terms used on this page

1. England Project abbreviated to EP.
2. Managed Profiles Team: a team within the EP which curates and monitors profiles under EP management.
3. "We": the England Project leaders or Project Coordinators of the Managed Profiles Team working under the oversight of the EP Leadership
4. Profile Manager abbreviated to PM, see this WikiTree help page
5. Trusted List abbreviated to TL

Adoption process and Trusted List membership

The England Project (EP) adopts profiles which broadly fall into 4 categories:

1. Living Notables
2. Non-Living Notables
3. Royalty
4. Contentious or disputed profiles (which may overlap with Non-Living Notables)

Living Notables

1. Living Notable Profiles have a strict management policy set by WikiTree:
   1. The profile has to be Project Managed and Project Protection (PPP) applied, with Yellow Privacy lock (Private with Public Biography and Family Tree).
   2. Apart from the Project itself, the only other people on the Trusted List (TL) are those designated by the Project to make timely edits, and people who are first cousins or closer to the profile person.

Non-Living Notables (Uncontentious)

1. People who are recognised to be historically important, but who are not controversial and do not warrant project protection.
2. The EP will become a Profile Manager (PM) after discussion with the existing PMs (if any). Existing PMs and members of the TL will be asked via the WikiTree messaging system whether they wish to stay on as PMs or on the TL. Unresponsive PMs will be referred to the "Unresponsive Profile Managers" process.
3. Requests to join the TL of these profiles will generally be declined unless that member is a member of the EP or is actively working to improve the profile.
4. The TL is for members who are collaborating on the profile. To manage the size of the TL, we may from time to time remove members who aren't actively involved in collaboration on the profile.
5. If a duplicate is created of a notable EP managed profile, the PM of that duplicate will generally be removed from the Trusted List after the profiles are merged.

Royalty

1. Profiles of Royal persons (Monarchs, their spouses and children) are managed by the EP and most have PPP applied to prevent the attachment of spurious first degree relatives.
2. Existing PMs and members of the TL will be asked via the WikiTree messaging system whether they wish to stay on as PMs or on the TL. Unresponsive PMs and TL members will be referred to the "Unresponsive Profile Managers" process.
3. Requests to join the TL of these profiles will generally be declined unless that member is a member of the EP and is actively working to improve the profile.
4. If a duplicate is created of a Royal EP managed profile, the PM of that duplicate will generally be removed from the Trusted List after the profiles are merged.

Contentious or Disputed Profiles

1. These profiles are ones which the England Project manages because of controversy about the history of that person or their first degree relatives. The profile is often flagged up for EP management by another Project (the profile is outside the scope of their Project) or after discussion on the G2G forum. The EP's role in this situation is to ensure that:
   1. the profile has reliable primary sources and is as accurate as possible with the resources available
   2. inaccurate, unsourced or speculative material is removed from the Biography
   3. unproven first degree relatives are detached from the profile.
2. PPP is applied to maintain the stability of the family structure.
3. Existing PMs and members of the TL will be asked via the WikiTree messaging system whether they wish to stay on as PMs or on the TL. Unresponsive PMs and TL members will be referred to the "Unresponsive Profile Managers" process.
4. Requests to join the TL of these profiles will generally be declined unless that member is a member of the EP and is actively working to improve the profile. Because of the sensitivity of these profiles, existing PMs are asked to liaise with the England Project before admitting any new members to the TL.
5. If a member on the TL makes unreliably sourced or contentious changes to a profile without discussing them first, we will contact the member to discuss the issues and, if necessary, follow the Problems with Members process. The member may be removed from the TL until the issues are resolved.
6. The TL is for members who are collaborating on the profile. To manage the size of the TL, we may from time to time remove members who aren't actively involved in collaboration on the profile.
7. If a duplicate is created of a contentious EP managed profile, the PM of that duplicate will generally be removed from the Trusted List after the profiles are merged.

Profile Style and Editing

A member (or members) of the England Project Managed Profiles Team or other nominated person(s) working in collaboration with the EP will work on the profile. A comment to this effect will be left in the comments section by the lead person within the EP for this profile.

• Profiles which are the subject of an edit war may have a Hold request applied to it while opposing points of view are discussed in G2G.
• Profiles which require PPP will have a short statement above the Biography heading stating the reason.
• The profile will be edited according to the England Project Profile Standards.
• The biography will be presented in chronological order.
• All the presented facts will have a source which will be referenced as an inline citation.
• Only reliable sources will be used in the biography (see the England Reliable Sources pages).
• Discussion of controversial or disputed parts of the biography go in the Research Notes. Long discussions, personal views or discussions involving two or more profiles will be transferred to a linked Free Space Profile.
• Images will be removed if they are not accurate or relevant, if they are duplicates or if they infringe copyright.
• Profile comments will be assessed for relevance and accuracy. The default will be to archive all comments which are not directly relevant to the ongoing discussion about that profile.
• Where WikiTree member(s) have entered their own personal relationship to the person in the profile, this will be removed. The WT member concerned will be invited to display the relationship on their own profile instead.

Sources