Scotland Project - Repair Links for ScotlandsPeople

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Scotland Project Repair Links for ScotlandsPeople

Since Ales has been reviewing links in all profiles, the Suggestions for Error 965: Link error 404 Not Found continue to increase for Scotland profiles. Members have included links with search results, etc from ScotlandsPeople site, instead of only the website link. Those links are not valid, so it would be helpful if everyone could do the following to help the Scotland Project:

• check your Watch List Suggestions (drop down from My WikiTree in menu) for 965 Errors.
  • If you have many, they could be lumped together at the top of the Suggestion list with Skipped suggestion (ErrorID=965 Link error 404 Not Found - nnn suggestions). Select the Click here to view the profiles with the suggestion and then search for ScotlandsPeople to find the Suggestions for ScotlandsPeople site.

• It would also be helpful if everyone would check profiles that 'you' Created and have orphaned. BioCheck app has been improved recently so you can now check the biography of profiles for text, which wikitree + cannot do.
  • set the Search text on WikiTree+ field to Creator_<your wikitree ID>, ex Creator_Carruth-363
  • set Profiles to Report to Detailed Report, if not already set
  • Uncheck Report Style details checkbox
  • set the Search biography for (bottom right) to record-results Note - this should find the bad links from Scotlands People that were saved with the 'record-results' in the url.
  • If you have a large number of profiles, you may need to increase number of profiles to search or check from 1000 to 10000 - max search profiles, max to check, max profiles to report
  • Selecting the Check Profiles button will load profiles to the table that have any source / style issue, but also those that Found 'your search criteria'. Profiles will start loading, but wait until the 'summary' information is shown with Checked Profiles
  • Clicking on Search? column header will sort the list to put those with 'Found' together for the 'search criteria.' Click it twice to reverse the sort, so those with Found should go to the top.
  • You can either work from the results table, as shown, or you can select Download CSV to create a spreadsheet type file to work from.

Please review and correct any citations so they have a correct link without the search results link. If you have the Sourcer app installed, it will try to bring up the Search Results page by converting the 'invalid link' to the new 'results process'

Example Citation Specific to Scotland has correct Citation format for Scotlands People citations.

Suggestions with Scotlands People	Total	1700-1799	1800-1899	1900-1999	Private	Information on How to Correct
965 Link error 404 Not Found	2,734	334	1941	459	56	Review 'Info Box' which has invalid link

Scotland Repair Links Weekly Update 2023

Date	Error 965	Weekly Change	New Suggestions Added
Start 02 Jul 2023	10,856		807
30 Jul 2023	9,370	1,486↓
29 Oct 2023	7,731	1,639↓
26 Nov 2023	2,734	4,997↓