How do I find out why a profile is showing up twice with different names on Category Prince of Wales?

Question

Brandner-119 is showing up twice, as Matthias Brandner (correct) and as Mathias (Brander) Brandner (wrong) on Category Prince of Wales.  Profiles are placed in this category with this text [[Category:Prince of Wales, Arrived 28 December 1734]] and this category with this text [[Category:St. Matthews Parish, Georgia]]. Previously the last name was changed. How do I fix this?  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Prince_of_Wales%2C_Arrived_28_December_1734

Answer 1

Hi Helen. This is due to a bug in WikiTree software.

At one point, there were two profiles, Brandner-119 and Brandner-347. I think that both were in the category. They have since been merged as Brandner-119.

This should have meant that Brandner-347 disappeared from the category, and only Brandner-119 remained. However, the bug prevented this from happening.

The bug has since been corrected. However, a script to correct the effects of the bug while it was active has not been run. That should happen eventually, and then the left over Brandner-347 will no longer appear in the category.

For more information about this, see "bug 1" as described at

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1701433/serious-category-content-variant-surname-duplicate-detection

Comments

Thank you.

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I'm glad this was helpful, Helen. Thank you for the star.

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The script has now been run and the problem has gone. See Jamie Nelson's answer here and this post by Aleš Trtnik.

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Wonderful! Thank you!!