Add notes to merge comparison & more detailed info for source
You have added notes to a person's page and a way to flag the notes. However when margining you are not able to see these and have no idea if there is addition info in the notes to help with the merge.
It is also great that the sources are listed on the side by merge page but it would be REALLY helpful if there was a drop down reference to the detail of the source so that you do not need to open the source in another tab. I think this would encourage people to look at the location and dates of the source to decide whether or not to merge.
At this time I am UNMERGING HUNDREDS of names that have been merged incorrectly because the side by side lacks ALL the info that has been added to the person page. I have also reached out to many people that have no idea how to really conduct a merge- so people deleted other people family members ...please help with more training and instructions.
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It won't do much good unless the training is mandatory and there are consequences for blatantly ignoring them.. I still see a fair share of editors that have been here for years that will still merge based on, say, one family member that is attached to the wrong family, or just because enough (extremely common) names match. I see a ton of mass-merging like that because these editors are chasing down their family lines and don't particularly care about damage done to profiles that aren't part of it..
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