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I was going through the Bengals 2023 draft class on the site, and noticed several of the rookies were either linked to the wrong player, had multiple player entries, or had no correct spot to link them to at all. Is there an easier way to mark those inaccuracies than going through card by card?

Still getting used to some of the different permissions and ways of correctly doing things on here, so I apologize if it's a dumb question.

Not a dumb question.

Explanation:
As checklists are added, the player's names are "looked up" in the database. When there is already a player with that name, the links happen automatically and whether that's the correct player or not, the link is made. We do have the ability to "turn it off" for players that are beyond their playing career when there is a new person wit hthe same name (so all the new checklists don't keep going to the old player).

Unfortunately, once these links have been made, there is no easy or automated way of finding them or fixing them, except in a one-by-one fashion. The best thing you can do, if you can't make the edits yourself due to permissions, is to report each card and indicate in the report which PID number should be linked to that player on that card. If a profile (PID) does not exist for a person, just put that in the report filed on that card's page that a new proifile/PID is needed.

Thanks.

I was afraid that would be the answer. Looks like I've got a couple hundred reports to make over the coming days. Thanks for the quick response!

Sometimes you can simplify the report by saying "Any cards of [this PID] that is listed with [this team] should be moved to [other PID]". But after you get the notification that they were updated, it would be a good idea to double-check.

To keep things simple, what I usually do is put an IR on the first card of a group that needs the PID updated then I explain in the IR description how many need to be updated. For example, "All 2022 and 2023 cards on this profile...", or "All 2022 Leaf Ripoff on this profile..."

Thanks for the help guys