EZStrathHuston

Sock puppetry

Please do not add massive ancestry tables to articles. There was a long discussion about that and it was decided to restrict the tables to 4 generations. Can you please confirm whether or not you are the editor formerly known as Leito.Cmj (talk · contribs). Thanks. Celia Homeford (talk) 13:27, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

This is not a "sock puppet" account of whoever that other user is. And I've been adding ancestry tables to multiple pages lately, but I don't recall anything of them being particularly "massive", at least compared to the ancestry tables on some other Wikipedia articles (that I didn't add btw). I understand the organizational and otherwise aesthetic concerns assiciated with unwieldy ancestry tables, but the only time I add one with extended generations, lop-sided or otherwise, is to connect individuals whose generational intermediates lack their own pages, and whose relation would otherwise be difficult to discover and track. I'm just trying to connect a lot dots here.

The Wikipedia help article for family trees states that it is "recommended" to limit family trees to 63 nodes, which is what I've been trying to do. Which ancestry table in particular prompted this reaction from you? And where did this long discussion take place? Thanks in advance! EZStrathHuston (talk) 13:57, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Ok so reviewing your recent edits I see that you trimmed the tree for Henry Howard, which was indeed massive. However I should clarify that I myself didn't add that tree (I merely color-coded the earlier generations), and the elaborate nature of that tree is what made me think that it wasn't a huge deal to push trees up to 5 or 6 generations.

I won't fight a battle over the edits you've made to the other trees that I did add, however there seems to be a frequently noted lack of citations. I will point out that in each of the trees that I've produced, every node was added as a result of existing Wikipedia pages linking individuals as ancestors or descendents. No new information was added by me. I merely summarized existing information on Wikipedia. If that's not ok then fine, I'll stop doing it. But again I'm just trying to connect dots where there would otherwise exist only complicated and confusing narrative accounts of family histories. EZStrathHuston (talk) 14:11, 27 November 2023 (UTC)