You simplified it too much.
This process is much simpler (so maybe less intimidating for the beginner), but it is much less helpful for the experienced user. Not having choices on what to save and what to keep is annoying!
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@CherylMillerBlack can you give an example of some of the choices you are missing?
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I liked the chance to look at the two profiles side-by-side and choose whether to go ahead with the merge [Yes, Continue]. I can make a preliminary decision BEFORE anything is moved. I think this is valuable to make sure you really want to Merge.
What if there is no birth info (for example) on the right, but I don't agree with what's on the left? There is no choice to NOT move information in that case (as far as I can tell—I don't see any way to undo it).
I've been working with African American records recently. They have many versions of race—Black, African-American, Black, Colored, Neg, etc. They would all move to the right unless they were duplicates. I like to just keep one so there aren't multiple entries for race.
This isn't something a beginning user would do, but I do it all the time: When the person on the left has children but no spouse (which happens frequently), Merge moves those children to the right. If they are duplicates of the children WITH the spouse, I Undo that move. It saves steps later.
In many census records, there is Residence info for the Head of household. I want to move the Residence info to the right, but not the duplicate.
That's what I can think of at the moment. I'm sure other situations will come up on another day!
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I should add that I REALLY like the warnings about inconsistencies. It's my understanding that these "quality scores" are the reason you are making additional changes.
Why not just keep the existing Merge function (which was already changed not too long ago!) and add these warnings about inconsistencies?
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