Suggestion for improving Help:Uncertainty page

Question

Thanks to the feedback from Jim Richardson in my recent G2G question Yellow Uncertain Birth Markers on only some Uncertain marked profiles I wanted to make a suggestion for a possible enhancement to the current help page for uncertainty. I believe this could help new users by adding the tidbit Jim mentioned in his reply. Maybe even a sentence in the first section with something like:

"If you are the manager of a profile, you will also see a yellow Uncertain indicator after various fields in the data section of the profile when it is viewed normally, but not when editing the profile."

or something like that if I am describing anything incorrectly.

But if there is something else or something in addition to Jim's explanation, we should include that in the enhancement.

Answer 1

It's not just Uncertain which turns yellow if you are the PM or on the TL.  There are several other yellow markers, such as add father, mother, spouse, children, and more.

A yellow marker is not a feature of Uncertain only.  Each profile has a public view (no yellow) and a 'private' view that only the PM or TL can see, and includes yellow links that can only be clicked if you are the PM or on the TL.

Comments

Two Help pages which discuss the distinction between private and public views of profiles are

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Profile_Previews#Privacy

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Public_View

Perhaps Kent's improvement request for Help page enhancement could be applied by expanding the text on one or both of those to give fuller details of which markers appear and don't appear in the two different views.

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Thanks, Ros. I had not recognized those additional differences are also only seen by the PM or TL. Those details would be good to document for new Wikitreers.

I just know the yellow highlight was coming up on my profiles and a search for "yellow" in all the help pages didn't tell me what that meant.