How do I cite a profile page on WikiTree?

Question

What does a Source Citation for a specific profile page on WikiTree look like, for when it is cited from outside of WikiTree?

I've been adding this:

(full name): (public 1 https) (''WikiTree,'' Online Genealogy Repository, Interesting.com, Inc., Launched by Chris Whitten, 2008).

Is there a formal agreement on what this should look like?

Answer 1

See the Best Answer from 2014: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/91111/whats-the-proper-citation-for-wikitree-profile.  It basically follows the format of a Wikipedia citation:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia#Chicago_style

Comments

Thank you so much.  I had to have the proper way before I get too far into editing profiles.  Thank you !

Answer 2

I wouldn't cite another WikiTree profile as a source.  I would link to it under 'See Also' and find primary sources.

So it would look like:
==Sources==
<references/>

See Also:
[[Haywood-41|Ros Haywood's profile on WikiTree]]

Comments

How else might you put it for unsighted people?

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That's what it would look like on the Edit tab.  It would come out as
==Sources=

See Also:
Ros Haywood's profile on WikiTree

I do not know how a screen reader copes with links.

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Thank you for your response.  I clarified my question.  I am in need of a 'formal' Source Citation.

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Take a look at this page:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Sources

You will see how various sources are cited.  Note that in many of the sources, the link to another WikiTree profile is as I provided above.

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I read the help page again.  Thank you.  Now pretend you have a blog you are writing.  You want to 'point' to a specific profile page on WikiTree.  How would you do that according to the formal rules set forth by WikiTree on how to do that?  Is there another page specific to my 'edited' question that I can read?

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If I had a blog, and wanted to point to a particular profile on WikiTree, I would use the URL which appears in the address bar of every profile, for instance:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Haywood-41

Depending on where the blog was situated (say, on Blogspot or Wordpress), I would use their techniques of linking to that particular URL.

The sources would appear on the profile, rather than the profile being the source.

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B, I would cite the profile, but also separately list the sources that the profile relied on, with my own commentary on their reliability.

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And if (as I have seen), the profile has 26 sources, wouldn't it be much quicker/easier/cleaner to use one link - the one which links to the profile?

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Good point.  But I would still provide some evaluation of the information.  I would not want someone to just go to the profile and accept everything at face value, if I didn't think that was reasonable.