?1 Strydom - Deleting of profiles

Peter
I see the manager of the profile is active on Geni. He might have sources not visible to us.
I would not delete the profile and if communication about this does not sort this out, one is still not allowed to delete profiles on Geni. The most drastic what I might do personally is to unlink the profile, but also only after consultation and agreement. Otherwise this just result in "edit wars" which do not solve the problem.

Not allowed? or just not advised?
If not allowed why is the facility available?

His last activity was Dec 2010..is that considered active?

Callie oct 2011

Peter
It is not allowed. In fact the manager of the profile is notified when you delete the profile and he might just undelete it once he noticed the message.
The facility is available so that the author can delete it, if an eror has been made.
In the specific case, no damage is done since the profiles are just empty shells. The primary manager, must however sort this out

The guy who added the profile is inactive/or left Geni is the adder of the profile and is for some reason not involved in the profile since he is not listed as manager.
The only manager of the profile is Matthys Christiaan "Callie" Calitz who admittedly was last on line a year ago ( I misread it as 2014)

What is the procedure then if Callie does not respond?
How long do i wait?
Can i apply to become primary manager?

Primary membership does not change the situation. The current primary manager must relinguish the "primary to you, if he wants or even responds.
Personally I would regard 30 days as reasonable - 3 months better.
CS might intervene but does not lightly do that.
I took responsibility and filed these 5 empty shells away with a proper curator note and notified the primary manager.

Not too happy..we now have 5 female strydom profiles (cousins of mine at 3rd remove) floating around.
While you are about sorting the family .there are two more profiles for which i cannot find evidence
Gerhard Albertus Strydom
and
Johan Christiaan Strydom

I tried to help - any other suggestions?

For the other 2 try http://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-1/myheritage-family-t...

or generally

http://www.myheritage.com/matchingresult-601b20ea787609153b46756087...

IF Geni sees them as related to you, and manager not active -- you could report as Abandoned Tree and there would be a chance Geni would see you as closest active manager, and give/add you as manager.

However, if they are floating free, then Geni will not see you as relative. Tho -- I get confused whether it is relative of Profile, or Profile's manager that Geni looks for - so -- try reporting as Abandoned Tree.

http://help.geni.com/entries/20475503-What-is-an-abandoned-tree-

In cases where I got control of a profile, I also was a manager and the nearest living relative to the primary manager of the profile.
Peter Dennis...Gone fishing! I hope those links had sufficient information on the other 2 profiles.

They are myheratige profiles and probably sorced at the same place as my ghost profiles!