Inconsistent information about WP Credits badges - described as both manual and automated

[jdahir0789]

Description:

There’s a discrepancy between the Meta Handbook documentation and the corresponding Profile Association pages for the “WP Credits” program badges.

Affected Pages:

Meta Handbook:
​https://make.wordpress.org/meta/handbook/tutorials-guides/profile-badges/

Lists “WP Credits” badges with color codes:

Participant: Take part in a WP Credits initiative.

Graduate: Graduate a WP Credits initiative.

States: Both are manually assigned by the team.

Profile Association pages:

Credits Mentor

“This group is automated. Please contact the relevant team, or see the handbook for more information.”

Credits Graduate

“This group is automated. Please contact the relevant team, or see the handbook for more information.”

Issue:

The Meta Handbook says these badges are manually assigned, while the Profile Associations pages describe them as automated. This inconsistency can confuse contributors and new participants in the WP Credits initiative.

Suggested Fix:

Confirm whether these badges are manually assigned or automatically generated by the system.

Update either:

the Meta Handbook (to reflect “automated”), or

the Profile Association descriptions (to reflect “manual”),
depending on the correct current behavior.

[dd32]

Both are technically correct.

The badge is automated, in that you can't request it, but it's manual in that a team rep has to do something to provide it.

I've removed Both are manually assigned by the team. from the Meta handbook page though.