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The new Merge Center functionality is GREAT! I would expect that merge issues will start decreasing dramatically with the new rules that are applied to this functionality, as I am finally able to merge profiles that were once hanging with uncooperative managers.
I am, however, concerned that the rule changes will make it much easier for bad merges to be completed. I am making a plea to my fellow collaborators to please walk through information provided on pending merges and eliminate any doubt in your mind to merge BEFORE committing the merge. Primary examples I have run across are merges on children profiles based on the same given name, when there were actually 2 children with the same given name, where the first died as a young child, and a second had the same name as the first.
Thanks for reading, and happy merging!
Dave.
I'm afraid I can't quite figure out what the ability to check multiple boxes is supposed to do. If I go to the pending merges page, pick multiple things and then click to view, it shows me only the first one and then never brings to to the next. Nor does it bring me back to the main pending merges page.
Another thing: if I click on No they're different, the merge doesn't happen, but the wrong profiles never get unstacked.
I agree. I merged a few profiles today and hope that I didn't make that mistake! It's amazing how often names were reused after the death of a child.
One concern that I had with the new merge is with data that you know is incorrect. If someone was born on July 7, 1650 (example) and 10 collaborators have agreed to that and you are merging with someone that has that same person listed as c. 1650 or worse, a bad date like July 17, 1650, then you can't change the other profile before the merge. I wonder what Geni does with that. Do they ask the other person to verify which one is correct still?
Thanks
-Brendan
Horrah David !
I second & third his lines of -
"I am making a plea to my fellow collaborators to PLEASE walk through information provided on pending merges and eliminate any doubt in your mind to merge BEFORE committing the merge. Primary examples I have run across are merges on children profiles based on the same given name, when there were actually 2 children with the same given name, where the first died as a young child, and a second had the same name as the first."
Alice Zoe Marie Knapp we just released a fix for this issue. Can you try again and let me know how it goes?
It is a bit of an issue if dates are wildly varying. I make the assumption that if a large number of people agree that "A" was born in say 1750, and one person says they were born in c.1780, the majority must have it right. Unless they have proven otherwise, of course. I'm snowed under here at the moment, with work commitments, but shall try to take a day soon, to upload documents backing my own data.
I have always had a problem unstacking using the error wizard. That is, I will un-merge, but the bad profile keeps coming back and trying to be merged.) To me, it's the hot match algorithm at fault, not the merge center.
Has anyone tried UNmatching the profile and seeing if that cleans up the stack better?
When I try to go to my merge center I can get into the main part of it but then if I click on "profile merges" I get a message that "we are experiencing technical difficulties".
I've gotten this message every time I click on there -- since early Sunday morning.
I CAN get into the "Tree Matches", the "Tree Conflicts" and "Data Conflicts".
BUT NOT >> the "Profile Merges"
Help?
- Thanks
Eldon, as a temporary work around until the above issue gets fixed (and also in order to give myself something to do) if i go to the merge center I am able to click on the "Tree Conflicts" tab and then I can check the box that includes collaborators -- then the tab for collaborator merge issues appears and by going there i can work on my collaborator merge issues so I still have lots to keep me occupied.
Kim,
I can give you projects to work on if you want.
I am currently figuring out and relating up:
- Cherokee Indian "big chiefs" from 1650-1850 and American trader intermarriages (de-tangling / adding / connecting)
- just getting started on Shawnee and Creek, same time period / geography / scope
- Mayflower-immigrants (de-tangling)
- Norman-Anglo knights (de-tangling)
I think others could use help in other areas.
Kim, I know that will work but That takes me from 300+ merges and growing, to 24000+ You would think that 4 or 5 days would be long enough. No response from Geni help yet or on my other problems yet. I am about to give up on Geni. It is not ready for prime time. They should just label it as a pre beta and call the users testers
I don't understand
What is actually happening when I request a merge? The merge dissapear from my merge center but I can't find it anywhere else - I can't see my pending merges and can't find out who is irresponsive and who actually is merging the requested merge. Earlier I had a "list" of pending merges in my merge issues as well as in the sent requestions, now they just dissapear - or what!!