User talk:Garron

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Renaming pages [25 November 2009]

Hello, I am an admin here at WeRelate. Are you renaming pages to Unknown in an attempt to delete them? This will not delete your pages. If you wish to delete your tree, please go to MyRelate, Trees, delete. Please discontinue renaming pages to Unknown, as this activity is subject to reverting. Thank you.--Jennifer (JBS66) 09:08, 25 November 2009 (EST)

Would you explain to us what you wish to accomplish? For example, Family:Unknown (13); the last changes that were made to this family were in 2007 by an administrator who simply corrected the page titles to follow the guidelines on WeRelate, until you deleted the contents of the page and renamed today. Having a page titled family unknown with no information is not a page that contributes anything useful on a collaborative site. --Volunteer Administrator Beth 09:54, 25 November 2009 (EST)

people keep adding incorrect information and I'm tired of correcting it [25 November 2009]

I saw some of your activity in the logs.

Incorrect information is a risk in a database where anybody is allowed to do input. WeRelate hasn't been around that long, and it may be unclear which side will win out: correct or incorrect. I'm betting correct will. But my personal experience here leads me to believe that the only feasible way to fight incorrect information is to fully document the important sources (censuses, deeds, wills, etc.) that prove data is incorrect, and if possible, proves the correct data. Otherwise, like a weed, the data will grow back.

Renaming a page to Family:Unknown is just creating an empty page. That serves nobody's purpose. In the cases I looked at, I think it would have been better to simply detach the parents you didn't like, and then leave that Family page dangling. That page may still represent real people even if they were not parents of the person you are researching. If there is nothing left on the page, it should be marked for speedy delete by adding {{speedy delete|reason for requesting the delete}} to the text area. In situations where you can't replace wrong data with correct data, it may be more productive to add a note and the sources that make it clear the data is incorrect, so it doesn't get readded.

There was, and is, a large effort to merge pages in WeRelate that appear to be duplicates. Some of the pages you seem to be complaining about might have been the result of merging that page with another page that looks like it was meant to be the same person. Since these pages are done by volunteers who are not familiar with the family, they can only go by the data that is on the page. This effort is hopefully a one-time effort, and it does not necessarily mean that it will "keep" happening once the project is completed, but it does mean there was not enough information on the page to make the facts crystal clear to somebody who is just viewing the page. --Jrich 09:23, 25 November 2009 (EST)