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Usually we do an IR on the first card of the profile that needs to be merged/removed and provide a link to the profile/PID that should receive the card assignments.

Hi,

Talking about linked persons, there is a problem when personalities have the same name as an object, per example Queen Mary:

- We all heard of the Queen Mary that all Queen Mary cards are linked to, or did we?

Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 6 May 1910 until 20 January 1936 as the wife of King-Emperor George V.

Got you there... Lol

Okay the famous ship was named after her

So when you follow the link, you have both,: the person and the ship & it's not the only example...

I had trouble with a certain Prince Charles card that kept linking itself with the actual King of England, Take a look at Wikipedia:

Charles IV may refer to:

    Charles IV of France (1294–1328), "the Fair"
    Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316–1378)
    Charles IV of Navarre (1421–1461)
    Charles IV, Duke of Anjou (1446–1481)
    Charles IV, Duke of Alençon (1489–1525)
    Charles, Duke of Vendôme (1489–1537), also known as Charles IV de Bourbon
    Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558), King of Naples as Charles IV
    Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (1604–1675)
    Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1685–1740), Duke of Brabant and King of Sicily as Charles IV
    Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia (1751–1819), styled "Charles IV of England and Scotland" by Jacobites
    Charles IV of Spain (1748–1819)
    Charles IV of Norway (1826–1872), also known as Charles XV in Sweden
    Charles IV of Hungary (1887–1922)

That would give a headache to anyone... Most of them were once known as Prince Charles, I'd guess.

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Sorry, I meant Charles III, but I know there were many named as in history

If you put in a name, put it links to the wrong person with the same name, then you need to edit the PID number attached to the card rather than just retyping the name.

So if a card were to link to one of the human Queen Mary’s, but the card depicts the ship, you would manually edit the “Linked to PID” number to be 307140 since that’s the number at the end of the ship’s URL: https://www.tcdb.com/Person.cfm/pid/307140/ (s an example). 
 

So if you come across more mistakes like that, you can either edit the PID number on the card(s) in the wrong spot(s), or put in an IR on the card with a link to the correct spot and someone will get around to correcting it.