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Hi,

I suspect there's a way to do this but haven't come across it yet.  I've found 2 different player pages that are actually for the same person but are showing up with different first names (short vs long form). Is there a way to correct and merge these pages? I had no idea this player had other cards available until I stumbled upon the other page by accident.

Jacob Robson - https://www.tcdb.com/Person.cfm/pid/200002/Jacob-Robson

Jake Robson - https://www.tcdb.com/Person.cfm/pid/160930/Jacob-Robson

Baseball Reference lists his name as Jacob.

I merged them and added Jacob as an alias to the Jake Robson PID

Awesome! Thanks.

I have a related question as well, I've been adding a checklist and I'm not sure if I'm doing this right. I have a card here, I've listed the players name for the card as it appears on my checklist, and linked it to a different spelling; Andrei v. Andrej.  However the name at the top of the page doesn't have a hyperlink, it's onnly linked at the bottom. How can I fix that? I have a few names like this to fix.

https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/282478/cid/17214203/2021-Sereal-KHL-Collection---National-Leaders-CZE-008-Andrei-Nestrasil?PageIndex=1

If the name appears on other cards, or it's a known different language alliteration (like we see with Russian names), it can be added as an Alias to the main profile, then when this new spelling is in a new checklist, it'll automatically link. The other option is to take the PID of the main profile, edit the different name and add the PID.

I just added "Andrei Nestrasil" as an Alias to the main Andrej profile, so now if you go back, edit the name on the card and save without touching anything, it'll link.