What is an unsourced profile in the context of the Source-a-Thon?

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Hi all!

Jointed question from the French team about the Source-a-Thon:

We have a load of profiles "sourced" with only a Geneanet online tree, which is pretty much the same evidence level as an Ancestry tree or a FamilySearch profile with no sources.

It was just mentioned on Discord yesterday that these ARE NOT RELIABLE SOURCES (obviously.)

That being said, per WikiTree's guidelines, they're technically sufficient for post-1700 profiles. Can we still stick them in the Unsourced category and work on them for the Thon?

I just found this conversation from 2017 on the same topic, but it doesn't seem to me that the guidelines have changed since (if they have, I did not find that info anywhere, please redirect me to it.)

I feel like adding an online tree as a "source" to an unsourced profile should not count for the Source-a-Thon (am I wrong here?) so it only feels natural and logical than the profiles that are already using those as their only source should be considered unsourced.

in Policy and Style by Léa Haupaix G2G6 Mach 9 (98.5k points)

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