December 2019's Proposed Example Profiles of the Week Lineup

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Hello WikiTreers!

This is the proposed list for Example Profiles for the month of December. These are the profiles we'll feature in the Connection Finder each week. We invite you to weigh in with ideas, to step in and make improvements leading up to their feature date, suggest related profile possibilities, and add to our list of options for future December features. 

Some things we need to have for a profile to be featured:

  • Notability.
  • Connected to the Tree.
  • A picture or likeness is available to use for a primary image.

If those things are in place, we can build a biography, though it's a bonus if that's already started or developed as well.

Places we look when planning the EPOW (example profile of the week):

  • Important dates in history (births, deaths, events).
  • Holidays.
  • Media events (history mini-series premieres, dramatizations of novels, biography debuts, movies, new books, etc.).
  • Current events (deaths of important figures, memorial observances).

Here is the December line up:

December 4thDennis Wilson of the Beach Boys was born 

Dcember 11thT.S. Eliot, author of the poem the musical "Cats" is based on. "Cats" is getting a major motion picture reboot debuting the 20th of the month.

December 18thPrincess Leia, Chewbacca, and R2D2, as the last movie in the Star Wars saga premieres.

December 25th: Clement C. Moore, author of "The Night Before Christmas"

in The Tree House by Abby Glann G2G6 Pilot (737k points)
I was kinda hoping for Chewie or R2, but it wasn't meant to be. However, 7th cousin (once removed) of Princess Leia is pretty cool.

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I need an R2D2 to do some of my WikiTreeing for me. Maybe I could catch up on all I am behind. I hope he is a close cousin!
by Pip Sheppard G2G Astronaut (2.7m points)
I am with you Pip!!
Pip, R2D2 and Chewie are the only ones on the list that are not related to me.
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You fell outside WT policy when you featured Star Wars
by Susan Smith G2G6 Pilot (658k points)
I am not sure what you mean, Susan.
Ah, Abby Glann, so it is the ACTORS and directors and such ilk that you'll feature in the profiles from Star Wars? Because the characters are fictional.
Susan, if you hover over the links underlying to the character names you will see those are linked to Carrie Fisher,  Peter Mayhew and Kenneth Baker
Oh, good, Jalena, glad to see that. Thanx.

And since I really really "hate" that hover bugger, Politely speaking, because it blocks out my view of whatever I'm looking at, so I don't USE IT. My instinct is to nuke it.
You can click if you don't want to hover. Same result.
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I know Dennis Wilson is coming up tomorrow, so if anyone wants to help improve the line, connections, or sources, please feel free. I'm currently looking over things and was surprised to find several that cited only Geni's links to their unsourced profiles, so I'm going to see what I can do to clean that up a bit. I'm already finding primary sources that can easily replace those essentially tertiary sources.
by Scott Fulkerson G2G Astronaut (1.5m points)
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I see that Eliot's family lived in St. Louis, Missouri.  I will work on them a bit.
by Michelle Enke G2G6 Pilot (427k points)

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