Unresponsive [profile manager]

Question

There is an admin who no one has been able to contact for some time. I have gone through all the required steps for one proifle; there are many. I found a distant relative who had an email address for the person but it bounced back. They haven't communicated for sometime. We fear the admin may have passed. The relative who had the email is trying to find out.

As a group we are working on a rather large family project and have several people who are willing to adopt these profiles and make needed corrections and attributions to the many profiles this person cared for. Could someone contact Shoff-7 to see how we can find a solution to this challenge?

Comments

Hi Barbara,
Are you talking about a unresponsive profile manager if so follow the steps outlined here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Profile_Manager#Unresponsive_Profile_Managers

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Second sentence original post: I have gone through all the steps for one profile; there are many. I should have said: Though I have gone through all the steps for one profile this person administers, this one specific administrator has a ton of profiles and has been unresponsive to other people as well. The people in the project are telling me because I am the admin for a large ONS linked to an atDNA  Project we are working on together. I have urged everyone in the project (60 at last count)  to join and upload all Gedmatch info to WikiTree and to build their lines here. Many of lines to which they are linking have incorrect information and lack proper attributions for the information they do have. I have told all of them not to "just make changes." Be polite. Be courteous. Don't make waves, we will get it straightened out. I have suggested that once adoption is approved several of the more seasoned genealogists in the project be assigned to "trusted lists." 

In other words, this administrator appears to have left many neglected orphans. The courts have not yet ruled this is the case and we need to wait to hear from the judge that they are available for adoption. Do we need to file requests separately for each profile when someone, maybe a leader of DNA or ONS might be able to approve a mass adoption by a willing loving family? I am willing to help coordinate this. This family also has a handful of other profiles that are already up for adoption and the word went out to members of the project yesterday. I am reaching out to find those closest in their lines. 

Answer 1

One of the options on the unresponsive manager form is Open ancestors and descendants of Wikitree-ID as well. If you pick the right profile this should orphan just about everyone, but you may have to do it a few times for different branches.

When you fill out the form explain briefly why you believe that all profiles managed by the person should be orphaned.

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Thanks Anne I never had to do a unresponsive profile manager form.

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Ann, Not sure I understand. I am tired right now. I just gave a huge explanation to someone but if we can do that, I can tell her to stop and do that instead. I didn't see what you're talking about. She is new to the site. I'll look for that!

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Family Tree and Tools Tab at the top of the profile

Scroll down to the bottom of the page: Unresponsive Profile Manager Request Form

Open the page: Right after the initial explanation

Please select one:

Open ________ for adoption.
Open ancestors and descendants of __________ as well.

If you start at the "youngest" (most recent generation) of person you can access, opening all the ancestors should get everyone in the tree managed by that manager.

 

 

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Thank you! Very much!

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Lets go back a step first. Finding this actual "unresponsive profile manager" page is a quest in itself, I dare say Frodo, Sam Wise-Ganjes and Gollum would have said #%$@ this and given up as well. My first expedition to find this, so called "elusive page", led me all across wikitree and low and behold, I found myself back at the page where I started. So much for simplicity.

So I can understand, how other members feel, especially new ones, when they are led, on a wild goose chase, to even get to this page, assuming, they do actually find it. The chances are, they have forgotten, (A) the person they want to report, which means another quest altogether, or (B) forgotten why they opened the request in the first place.

Why cant a simple button be placed on the persons profile page, when they need to be contacted for such a matter. When you adopt the profile, you automatically become the profile manager.!! Go to persons profile page and...........

Click button ---> fill in form ---> click send ---> Done.!!!

 

If Frodo, had of had this option, he would have defeated the Orks and been back by friday arvo, at the latest and putting his feet up, sipping on a cold can of beer. It's not that hard.

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I know that on profiles that are black lock or red lock you cannot access the form, but it's not hard to find once you know where to look. I repeat.

Family Tree and Tools Tab at the top of a profile that has the unresponsive manager, not from the manager's profile.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page: Unresponsive Profile Manager Request Form

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100% correct. I know where to go.....now..... as well.

It took me 2 - 3 go's in the beginning, to get it right, but it was a journey..

"However", If your a new member, it can be a real pain in the proverbial.  A button would simplify this "running around in a circle" process. I can understand why some members, existing and new, give up reporting non active PM's.