Do I need to request Trusted List for both these profiles where one is open and one isn't?

Question

I'm new at merging other peoples duplicates but I found one that was a  clear duplicate in the

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Special:BrowseMatches ...

...and this resulted:

An approved merge proposal was found, so the merge can continue.

that's after I researched the name at Ancestry.com

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/173216635/person/412293152842/facts?_phsrc=TLD28&_phstart=successSource

Only this happened (to explain it to new wikitreers like myself...

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Merging Momberg-50 into Momberg-13

We're sorry. One of these profiles is not Open and you are not on either profile's Trusted List. Although permission for the merge has been recorded, it would violate our privacy controls to enable you to complete the merge. Please post in G2G if you would like to discuss this. Thank you for understanding.

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Do I need to request Trusted List for both these profiles where one is open and one isn't?

I'd like to finish what I started

Beth

Answer 1

I sent a message to info @ wikitree.com  since the merge proposal has definitely passed 30 days default and one profile is locked.  They can complete the merge.

Comments

Linda's answer is the easiest and fastest way to go because the profile manager (the same one for both profiles) appears to be inactive.

The only other way would be to attempt to contact the profile manager in the three ways specified in the Unresponsive Profile Manager process and if a response is not received in a week then submit the Unresponsive Profile Manager request.  If WikiTree is not successful at contacting the manager then they will orphan the public profile and change its privacy to open, after which the merge could be completed.

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Merge has been completed.  I cleaned up the profile, removing duplicate text.  I have added some sources, including a marriage image, and possible death source