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Is... Is this even allowed?
BraydenGraves
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I just came across a profile in the Family Tree, and something about it just rubs me the wrong way. I don't even think I need to do anything more than put the link here, it's pretty self explanatory.
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G23R-GF2
To make matters worse, I'm pretty sure at least one of the merged profiles was the victim of faulty research, not a person that doesn't exist. Any thoughts?
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Well, at least nobody else has taken him up on the "offer", so far.
Whether it's allowed or not -- and I guess it's not technically against any rules -- it's sloppy. Profiles for people who never existed fall into two categories: accidental or deliberate. Deliberate fictional profiles are against the rules and should be dealt with using the reporting tools, not by sweeping them into a random hole. Accidental nonexistent people, on the other hand, are basically always based on an error about a person who did exist, and should be gotten rid of by merging with that person.
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@Stephanie V. This is even worse than those "Delete Delete" names that I reported some months back. "Hell's Kitchen, New York City, USA" obviously didn't exist in 1699.
@BraydenGraves link to the thread where I reported something similar. https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/133708/abuse-of-the-tree#latest
I think both are examples of people who don't know how to properly document/correct profiles in the FSFT.
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It's definitely crude. And, in my book, it's disrespectful of those elders we strive to honor through our research.
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@Áine Ní Donnghaile I think the location is meant as a joke about where the "fake" person belongs
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Of. course, but the FSFT is not the place for bad jokes.
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Look at the Note. This profile is explicitly designed to be used to "delete" persons via merge.
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@Alan E. Brown I'm aware of that, but it feels wrong.
(Edit: There used to be frustration here with the lack of explanation, but I've had a conversation with the person who made the profile, and the person I thought was real wasn't, but the explanation probably shouldn't be made public.)
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Well, I've been talking to the person who made the profile about one of the merges, and it turned out that they had genuine reasons to believe that the person didn't exist. I don't know if that changes anything on this topic, I just wanted to get that out here. They aren't ignorant like I thought before.
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@Julia Szent-Györgyi As it turns out, at least one of them was deliberate sabotage.
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@Julia Szent-Györgyi I sent a message to FamilySearch about the sabotaged profile, and I got a message back saying it didn't meet their criteria for abuse.
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This has been reported as abuse, and will be reviewed by FamilySearch, and possibly action may be taken to rebuke the person who started this.
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The Mass Grave or the sabotaged profile? They're different.
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The mass grave.
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Thanks for your report. The profiles for these fictitious persons no longer exist
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