US Southern Colonies Categories Team

Profile managers: Darlene Athey-Hill [send private message], Ken Spratlin [send private message], and US Southern Colonies Project WikiTree [send private message]

US Southern Colonies Project | Categories Page | Profile Improvement Teams | Categories Team

Team Roles

The Team consists of the Team Leader, Members, and Consultants.

The Team Leader must be a member of the Categorization Project and serves as liaison to that project.

Team Members are encouraged to join the Categorization Project, but it is not a requirement. The Team Leader is available to guide your efforts until you are comfortable working with categories.

Consultants are just that - the Categories Team consults them concerning their area (Team or Group) when a review of categories identifies a problem or a need.^[1]

Team Leaders and Project Coordinators are welcome to serve as a Categories Consultant for their team or project, or designate a team or project member. Otherwise, the Team Leader or Project Coordinator will be contacted as needed.

The Team

• Team Leader Ken Spratlin is getting up to speed on the Categorization Project ~8 Jun 2021

• Liz Shifflett is working on adding a colony switch to profiles with the project sticker (spot-checking profiles in Category: US Southern Colonists and profiles listed from Template: US Southern Colonist Sticker as using the template) and on removing lines from Virginia categories (the Categorization Project is focusing on clearing the thousands of suggestions for DBE 8072: "Separator lines in Category Content").

• Panel of Consultants

Consultant	Team	Group
Jack Day	Maryland	Colonial Teams
Mary Richardson	Carolinas	Colonial Teams
Ken Spratlin	Pre-1700	Managed Profiles Teams
Mary Richardson	Jamestown	Colonial Teams

Goal

The work of the Categories Team is to keep the project's categories in good order: error free and appropriately used, with guidance for their use on the category page (or a companion space page, if extensive details are needed). To accomplish this goal, the Categories Team works with its consultants, listed above, and the Categorization Project as needed.

Join Us

Want to join? Yay! Please post a comment to this page, something as simple as "I want to join."

Project Categories

Categories are a fairly complex topic, so no attempt is made to discuss them here.

To learn about the Project's use of categories, start here:

• US Southern Colonies Categories describes how categories are used by the US Southern Colonies Project, and provides guidance on their use. See this page for a detailed description of each category type.

• Category:US Southern Colonies Project is the high-level category for project-related Categories and Pages.

• US Southern Colonies Project Maintenance Categories describes the project-specific maintenance categories used to organize the work of project team members and others interested in improving the profiles of US Southern Colonists.

• US Southern Colonies Project Maintenance Categories By Team shows the project teams that work each maintenance category. The Categories Team supports these teams by clearing categorization errors and template-related errors.

Tasks

To support the Categories Team's goal, tasks include reviewing categories for errors, for content of pages, and for proper use (e.g., no people profiles in top-level categories).

Category Error Review

1. Correct all category errors for project categories - see salmon rows at the [Navigate] link for any category:

[Navigate] for US Southern Colonies Project:

• US Southern Colonies Project: Liz, no errors through Lvl 3 - 22 October 2020
• US Southern Colonists: no errors through Lvl 2 (22 September 2020); a couple dozen left at Lvl 4 (24 October 2020), in ship categories
• US Southern Colonies Project Maintenance Categories: Liz, no errors 18 September 2020
• US Southern Colonies: no errors through Lvl 2; many at Lvl 3 (mostly location categories) - 22 October 2020

[Navigate] for US Southern Colonies

• Errors for location categories need to be referred to the appropriate Colonial Team

2. Add an entry for Migration categories to the list above.

Content Review

Just because there is no error on a category page does not mean that it has appropriate information. Pages should

1. State the purpose of the category and/or what should be categorized under it.
2. Be an appropriate length (about 1000 characters is a good medium - less than [50 or 75?] will trigger a database error).
3. Include links to the Project page and the Categories Team.

When a category page has been reviewed by the Categories Team, note the date of the review (either as a parenthetical when the Categories Team is mentioned in text or an italicized notation at the bottom of the page (e.g., ''Text reviewed 12 November 2020 by the [[Space:US Southern Colonies Categories Team|Categories Team]].'' ).

Status: reviews not yet begun ~ Noland-165 20:04, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Proper Use

1. Category: US Southern Colonies Project

1. Periodically check for extraneous subcategories and pages.
2. Periodically check for people profiles. This is a top-level category so there should be none.
   1. People profiles should be moved to Colonists and Colonies subcategories instead.
   2. People profiles outside the scope of the project (i.e. not living in one of the 7 colonies before July 4, 1776) should have the project sticker or box removed.
   3. People profiles for Project Team Members should use [[:Category:: US Southern Colonies Project Members]] instead.
   4. People profiles for WikiTree members who are not Project Team Members should be directed (post a comment on their profile) to the G2G welcome post for information about joining the project. Ask them to remove this top-level category from their profile, and consider the Template: Descendant sticker instead.

2. Category: US Southern Colonists

1. Periodically check for extraneous subcategories and pages.
2. Note the category will have people profiles due to the project box not having a colony switch.
3. Periodically check the number of people profiles against the managed profiles spreadsheet.
   1. People profiles with a project sticker should have a colony switch added.
   2. People profiles with a project box should have a Colonies Colony-level region subcategory or County-/District-level region subcategory added.
   3. People profiles outside the scope of the project (i.e. not living in one of the 7 colonies before July 4, 1776) should have the project sticker or box removed.
   4. People profiles that are not Open should be (post a comment on the profile asking the profile be Open or the project sticker or box removed.

3. Category: US Southern Colonies

1. Periodically check for extraneous subcategories and pages.
2. Periodically check for people profiles. This is a top-level category so there should be none.
   1. People profiles should be moved to Colonies subcategories instead.
   2. People profiles outside the scope of the project (i.e. not living in one of the 7 colonies before July 4, 1776) should have the project sticker or box removed.
   3. People profiles for Project Team Members should use [[:Category:: US Southern Colonies Project Members]] instead.
   4. People profiles for WikiTree members who are not Project Team Members should be directed (post a comment on their profile) to the G2G welcome post for information about joining the project. Ask them to remove this top-level category from their profile, and consider the Template: Descendant sticker instead.

4. Category: US Southern Colonies Colony-level subcategories

1. Periodically check for extraneous subcategories and pages.
2. Periodically check the people profiles.
   1. People profiles in the Colony-level subcategories should be moved to a County-/District-level region subcategory if research permits.
   2. People profiles outside the scope of the project (i.e. not living in one of the 7 colonies before July 4, 1776) should have the project sticker or box removed.
   3. People profiles for Project Team Members should use [[:Category:: US Southern Colonies Project Members]] instead.
   4. People profiles for WikiTree members who are not Project Team Members should be directed (post a comment on their profile) to the G2G welcome post for information about joining the project. Ask them to remove this top-level category from their profile, and consider the Template: Descendant sticker instead.

5. Spot check the Privacy Tab of Team Pages to see if members are listed; post a comment to the Team if you see a lot who aren't (and if just names, no info in text, remind on that too).

6. You can review all project members' profiles from the badge list.

7. Periodically include info in the monthly Update.

Periodic Status

(9 Jun 2021)

1. Categories
   1. Numerous project members profiles in Category: US Southern Colonies Project.
   2. 1 profile in Category: US Southern Colonies. Has been contacted.
   3. All out of scope profiles removed from Category: US Southern Colonists.
2. Managed Profiles
   1. Being reviewed to ensure all have project box, project as profile manager, and PPP if appropriate.
   2. Being reviewed for maintenance categories.
3. Non-Managed Profiles
   1. EditBot replaced project box with sticker if not managed. 1,923 profiles put into Category: US Southern Colonies Potential to then be reviewed and colony switch added.
   2. 0 of 1,923 remain to have colony switch added.
4. Need to confirm all of the above when new reports available.

Resources

• US Southern Colonies Categories Team Workspace

References & Footnotes

1. ↑ For example, the Categories Team would identify category errors, but correcting the errors may require someone knowledgeable with the subject of the category. Also, if a new category is needed, both the Categories Team and the appropriate Consultant should review the proposed category before it is created to ensure that it follows the guidelines of the Categorization Project and fits in the overall hierarchy of the project's categories (for an overview of the project's categories, click here).