How to prevent merges with Czech surnames?

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When you have so many profiles with the same exact given & surnames (very common for Czech names) how can you prevent merges? I have so many with the same exact names I'm afraid that they are going to be accidently merged or changed.  Most are over 200 years old. Is there anything to do to make people aware when they look at the profile?
in Genealogy Help by Michelle Hartley G2G6 Pilot (169k points)

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The best thing to do would be to use the Merge Person page (http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Special:MergePerson) to manually reject merges between the profiles. That way when someone else runs a search for matches, the profiles show up as rejected, and if they try to merge them together anyway, a warning pops up that the two have already been rejected as matches.

As added protection, you could do as other wikis do, and put a disambiguation notice at the top of the bio to distinguish between two very similar profiles, like cousins with the same name born in the same town or time period.

This is the profile for Jan Orescu, son of Piotr Orescu and Elisabeth Unknown. For Jan Orescu, son of Ivan Orescu and Maria Dvorak and immigrant to Wisconsin, see profile Orescu-###.

 

by Erin Breen G2G6 Pilot (348k points)
selected by Maggie N.
Thank you great idea. Will have to try that.

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