Why can merged profiles be adopted?

Question

I see folks adopting a merged into protected profile that is visible here:

https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:NetworkFeed&who=Honeycutt-1263

How does it let you become profile manager after merge and then when account is deleted, let another person adopt the profile?  (See above feed.)

I think there is some database bug that needs to be fixed here.

Answer 1

It looks like maybe Honeycutt-1263 wasn't fully merged away (they still show as a child on https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Honeycutt-490), and may have been adopted that way.

It doesn't really affect anything, someone being the manager of Honeycutt-1263 doesn't make them the manager of the surviving profile. We run a clean-up script every once to fix these.

Comments

Jamie, if spouses and children can be added as they were in Dec 2019, there is no history being shown.  Hopefully, it was a glitch that won't happen again or was corrected.

Answer 2

Changes Log shows that profile was merged back in Apr 2019.  Looking at the Changes Log, it does show that she adopted the Honeycutt-1263 profile yesterday.  It also shows that spouses and children were added in Dec 2019, as well as another person adopting that profile, which was 'after' the merge.