Pedigrees locked - how to unlock them. - Page 6

Yes, in the long run it will help to ensure the integrity of the pedigrees.

Please, send beta pedigree links when you ask for a dog to be transferred to you. Soon we will have you sending the transfer requests to a new admin. She will also be assisting Lineage and Ancestry with pedigree work.

A couple more things I have not mentioned should any squabbles arise from more than one person wanting to have editors status we will generally always side with the person who has physical ownership of the dog. Also, please understand that more than one person can ask to be an editor of a pedigree. I hope these 2 won't get mad that I am using them as an example - take Jenni78 and Dawulf - they could both ask for edit rights on Qira and both could make changes say Jen had pictures she wanted to add to the gallery, she could.

When I started with the the transfers, I took off the original creator but from this point forward the original creator will still have edit rights. If disagreements occur we will take them case by case. Say a new owner changed the kennel name of a dog - we would side with the AKC or other registered name.

I have sent you a personal message but please remove Fire Van Count Ustinov Van Der Yjabo Hoeve from the gsd pedigree database as I own Paluka Koko the so called mother of this dog and as I bred her and still own her is a false pedigreee and I cant delete it

I wonder, was there a pattern to which pedigrees were defaced? Contemporary winning dogs? All kinds of contemporary dogs? Or also dogs of the (distant) past?
I've added information (reg. numbers, ancestors) to many entries of dogs from before 1980 and at least in that early time period, and among the dogs that I looked at, I didn't encounter signs of manipulation. But of course admins have a better overview of what illegit changes were done to older entries, too. Thus my question.

Im sure I don't just speak for myself here thank you for cleaning up the pd making it safer for all our dogs .Not to mention how quick you responded to making each pedigree match it owner.

That will become a stressful job - thumbs up to the Admins

It´s a shame this has to happen though, part of pedigreedatabase was that the pedigrees were easy to handle /  change / create.
Too bad some humans will never change...

We just felt it was time to tighten up the editing of pedigrees. Between honest mistakes, malicious defacing and editing fights - we are fast approacking 2 million pedigrees and just felt it was time. We would have loved to just keep the editing open but we decided to try this approach over an admin approval of each edit and every edit.

I understand that some people change peds just to be mean,but the old system was much more user friendly and I fear new correct info on any certain dog will be lost in the shuffle, how can the moderators keep up with all the change requists from now being locked out dogs,it seems like its easier to patrol the 1 percent of bad people then patrol the 99 percent of honest people that need to update legimate changes on a dogs profile,I think some will give up if they have to jump through hoops to make pedigrees as accurite as possible.On the old system anyone could view who made the last entry into a dogs pedigree and revert it back if malicius info was entered on a dog.

True, until they start messing with pictures. The real issue is how do you find and patrol the 1%? If all it takes to change an IP is a few clicks of the mouse and a few keystrokes? In the meantime 100s or 1000s of pedigrees could be altered, then someone has to go through all those pedigrees to revert them and what is to stop the same person from using a different IP and user name to go back through those same pedigrees and changing them, again? Then you have the fights were 10s of back and forth reverts take place without us even knowing, then the person who actually owns the dog wants all those reverts taken off because it looks bad in the history of changes. We have even had admin reverts changed over and over.

We will keep up by adding more admin or global pedigree researchers who will have edit power over certain breeds lets say. We looked at doing this several ways and we went with this system. There are probably tens of thousands of pedigrees with no creator, who were either added by Oli or added before Oli started to track creators. BTW, we don't change the pedigrees on the dogs, members still change the pedigrees but it is limited to whoever has editor status instead of any Joe who comes along.

Bump to raise awareness.

I don't see any downsides to doing this. There were about 5, 6 of my dogs here, not GSD's,  that I didn't enter. Admin switched them to me and now  can go and enter more information, correct some wrong spelling simply by clicking on the pedigree. The same for my current GSD that I didn't enter here. What's so hard about doing that? All one can't do is to correct a pedigree on a dog they can't establish editor status. If  you think the information is wrong or want to add something more, then say so in the comments section.