Watchlist bloat - is there a solution?

Question

My watchlist is creeping up and I really want to pare it down.

Is there a way to locate profiles where I'm on the Trusted List or am the Profile Manager, but to whom I am not related?

Is there an app, perhaps, that can compare watchlist items against relationships, or lack of relationships? Or can a solution be found using WT+?

Comments

Who do you count as a relation? How about a 5th cousin, for example? What about people in your CC7? Are you interested in them?

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Good question. Well, if I'm going to ask for the world - I would first want to identify anyone not related by blood or marriage, being those profiles that I've adopted while perhaps doing project work, the random profiles who've been adopted over 10 years. Those who are truly unrelated.

Then, I'd perhaps want the ability to identify anyone not related by blood, say the spouses of a relation of any degree.

Then, I'd perhaps want to identify anyone related by blood, but of less than x-degrees. Say, keep the great uncles, but not their children. Or, keeping the direct line, but not their siblings. Something flexible like that. Mainly I want to identify them, so that I can pick & choose who to keep, and who to orphan.

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Something like this may be possible thanks to Aleš's wonderful tools.  I hope you're not a in a big hurry for it, though.

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No rush, but I'd sure find it useful!

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Ian, your first response just struck me: how about a list of profiles that excludes everyone on one's CC7 list? That might be helpful.

Answer 1

On WT+ you can use this query 

Manager=Madison-125 open not cc7=Madison-125

It will show open profiles that you manage excluding the profiles in your public CC7

You could also limit the results to only profiles that are managed also by the project WikiTree-30

Manager="Madison-125 WikiTree-30" open not cc7=Madison-125

I hope that helps.

BTW: If you decide to drop over 1000 profiles, we can automate that for you.

Comments

Excellent solution, Aleš, thank you!!

Answer 2

The way I do it is click on the Edit Date column of my watchlist so that the oldest edited are at the top, then daily, I look at the top five profiles, checking the data, adding any sources and making any bio improvements, before waving bye-bye to any I no longer want to manage. It's an easy way of keeping on top of things.

Answer 3

Every day, I use my Anniversaries list and work through each profile who was born, married, or died on that day - getting rid of those who are either second cousins or greater and others who have crept onto my list.  That's anything from 3 to 12 a day.

Answer 4

Apart from the red X on the profile, the WikiTree Browser Extension also provides a way to orphan profiles directly from your watchlist that is enabled by default ("Remove Profiles From Watchlist"). Especially together with the "Surname and Watchlist Table Options" and "Table Filters and Sorting", removing "unwanted" profiles from your watchlist should be a lot more comfortable.

Comments

Thanks, Florian, I'll play around with it and see if I can do what I need. Thanks for the pointer.

Answer 5

wikitree+ can check for managed profiles, as well as specific template, which might help to find the project related profiles