When this profile was first created, it was a female with first name Nancy, birth year 1843 marked certain, in Indiana.
A couple of weeks ago, all that was deleted and the profile was put in the Recycle Unknowns category.
Today Recycle Unknowns was replaced with Unsourced, the Date Guess was added, a birth year of 1900 marked guess was entered, and gender was changed to male, then back to female.
I see nothing to indicate that this profile was ever merged with any other one, although when I try to go to z-43, this profile comes up, which does seem to indicate that it had been merged into Unknown-192900.
It is very unfortunate that this (apparent) merge was done - even more unfortunate that there doesn't appear to be any way to access the data in the original profile because I was trying to see if there had been any information in the original profile, based on the statement that recycling "appears to be what the prior editors/managers may have wanted".
The problem is that if a profile manager wanted to remove a profile, that is not something that is permitted here, as long as that profile represents someone who actually did exist. Especially when a profile has a connection to another one, the profile should not be removed.
In addition to all that, we try to keep merges to a minimum because each merge results in redirects, which adds to the demand on computer resources. If there are several redirects (resulting from several merges) then there will be a palpable delay for a profile to be displayed when you click on a link to it.
Susan, please add the tag: unknowns to your question to get attention from that project, who can provide better guidance than I can about the whole thing … and please - nobody do any more merges of this family until someone from the Unknowns project responds.
