Not allowed to merge?

vNatale

The new merging experience tells me that two profiles "have a high degree of inconsistency. Merging is not recommended." Yet, the new profile has no sources and has the same wife and child. The new profile shows the man born in Virginia in 1600 when no European were in Virginia, while the existing, older profile shows him born in England in 1599 and has 24 good sources attached. The new profile is obviously a weak profile of the same man. However, the new system does not appear to allow the merge to continue, even after I make these observations and reasons for merging. I have clicked on "merge" and "submit" several times. Does this new system really not allow merges that REALLY should be done?

Gordon Collett

Did you enter a reason statement? If not, is that what is blocking it? Posting the two IDs would let the developers evaluate the problem, if it is one.

If the issue is that the two men's profile show them born on two different continents, I would view that as a good block. If that is what is going on, all that it should take to be able to merge is to fix the birth place where it is obviously wrong.

Rhonda Budvarson

@vNatale thank you for your feedback, and your patience as we work on this beta project. Could you post the PID's for the individuals in this merge. It would be helpful to see exactly what you are looking at.

vNatale

Hello Rhonda,

I got frustrated with the Beta test site, so I exited and merged the two already under the current system. However, here is the information: The original profile was for William Carter 99XC-R27, who has 24 sources and shown born about 1599 in England, died in Virginia about 1655. The new profile was William Carter P9WY-JP7, with no sources, shown as born 1600 in Virginia (impossible), died about 1654 in Virginia. Both profiles had the same name and were attached to wife Alice Croxon LBLQ-SZ8. The beta site appeared to not allow me to merge the two men (even though I entered a reason) because their birth locations were so far apart, yet it is readily apparent that the new profile was meant to be the same man as the existing one. As a previous commenter has stated, I could have changed the information on the new profile first, then merged, but that puts a heavier burden on those who are simply trying to assist with keeping the profiles fairly clean and manageable, without multiple spouses of the same name that causes confusion which leads to more errors. I would humbly suggest that the block on merging not be so stringent on the values. I seem to remember when trying to merge under the beta site that the message included that the births of these men were more than ONE DAY different. Surely there's a broader window that that for merging.

Thank you for listening.

Rhonda Budvarson

@vNatale thank you for your response. We have created a ticket to look further into these issues.

HendersonBrentTeamon

Not allowed to merge even with reasons stated. Goes back and forth between Submit and Merge.