New Question About WWI Category

Question

I saw on my 16 Jun Wiki Genealogy Feed there was an entry that stated EditBot WikiTree edited the Biography for Charles Goodman. (BOT Renaming category World War I, WIA, United States of America).  Since I am the manager for a profile with the name Charles Goodman who fought in WWI I thought I would check it to see if it was mine.  It was the profile I managed but instead of saying that EditBot had edited the biography, it stated that an individual had edited the biography and corrected a category link.  I studied the profile then clicked on the edited link.  It took me to a page with just 37 profiles on it.  It seems unlikely that there would be just 37 individuals in the US who had been wounded in WWI.

So I thought perhaps the link had been entered incorrectly.  So I went back to profile Goodman-2026 as though I wanted to enter the category brand new and clicked on Find/Categories/World History/Wars/1900-1944/1914-1918/United States of America, World War I.  After that Goodman-2026 should be added to at least five sub-categories.  I can see the usefulness of categories but I think we may be carrying it just a tad too far.

Are profile managers supposed to go back and enter the path to the World War I category the number of times necessary so that the profile is entered in to the proper number of sub-categories?  In the case of Goodman-2026 those sub-categories would be:

1.  American Expeditionary Force (AEF), World War I

2.  World War I, United States of America, Texas

3.  Wounded in Action, United States of America, World War I

4.  United States Army, World War I

5.  United States Campaigns, World War I

     a.  Battle of Cantigny (May 1918)

     b.  Battle of Belleau Wood (June 1918)

     c  Battle Chateau-Thierry (July 1918)

     d.  Battle of Saint Mihiel (1918)

     e.  Meuse-Argonne-Offensive

Also  United States Campaigns, World War I

     a.  Texas in the Great War 

So back to my original question.  Am I supposed to go back to the profile of Charles Goodman (Goodman-2026) and put in that World War I path however many times it takes to pick up all of those categories?

 

 

Answer 1

the narrowest/most defined category is added to the profile, not every category/roll up category in the path.

1. yes.  his profile states he enlisted 7 Jun 1917 as was assigned to the 2nd Division, then went to France with the AEF on 29 Jul 1917.  This does not match up with dates for the 2nd Infantry Division.... "The 2nd Infantry Division was first constituted on 21 September 1917 in the Regular Army. It was organized on 26 October 1917 at Bourmont, Haute Marne, France. "

2. yes and no....  there is a Texas project and they seem to have categories of their own identifying military service, so adding this category is up to the PM/project

3. yes, military status of KIA, WIA, MIA, POW, etc are entered as separate items

4. no, United States Army, World War I is a roll up category for units.  For this war, it is used to identify units that were not assigned to Europe as part of the fighting (those units are shown in American Expeditionary Force (AEF), World War I

5. no for United States Campaigns, World War I, that is a roll up category that contains all the individual battles, campaigns, etc.  The individual categories are the ones that should be added to a profile.

Texas in the Great War is a free space page that is used to give more information about Texas during World War I.  Profiles cannot be added to free space pages.

Comments

I very much appreciate the information you provided.

However, according to Charles Goodman's official records he was assigned to the Medical Detachment, 5th Battalion 2d Division, 3d Army.  I also got the dates from his official records.    It states that he left the US as part of the AEF on 29 Jul 1917 and arrived overseas on 14 Aug 1917 (traveled by ship but ship not named).  I have no idea why the dates on his official records don't agree with the dates you have.  

His records list all the battles he took part in and the ribbons and medals he was awarded.  These medals were awarded by the US Army.

In 2011 The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) awarded Charles Goodman the Cross of Military Service Award for service in WWI based on the fact that his father was a Confederate soldier in the Civil War.  When the last veteran of WWI died the Cross of Military Service for WWI was retired.