Elizabeth Ball (Debord) - Dupe Master

I suggest you use Geni mail to the curator. Ben responds more quickly to email. Good to ask first. I demaster profiles of curators I work a lot with without asking in these instances.

Why would people master and lock nonfamous profiles? It makes Geni less collaborative. As a curator I've graduated beyond the level of needing to ask people if I can merge the thousand or so profiles I deal with per day. When I encounter these situations it makes me feel precuratorial.

The Master Profile was NOT invented for famous people. It was developed so that profiles can be distinguished (not merged together). Without this tool Geni was a big pile of multi colored noodle roni. In fact because celebrities are more recognizable they are not mismerged.

The guidelines for master profiles have not changed:

https://wiki.geni.com/index.php/Master_Profile

The text in that Wiki is not the official Geni statement. They focus on quality.

Quality is of course what we all strive for. But in a merge environment data protection comes first. I know how my great grand parents wrote their names, for example; yet someone else might decide to write it differently based on an erroneous tree or their own ways of charting. Better to protect the fields as requested.

Perhaps you should follow this discussion thread and og back and read the long thread that preceded it that was closed.

https://www.geni.com/discussions/166171