recycle profile? Common first and last name. Nothing else. [closed]

+5 votes
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Hi,

I have seen before where there are profiles for recycling. Given that I have a common name on a profile I"m looking at, should I look at adding a recycling template to this? I could note it as unsourced, but you could source the entire profile as someone new...suggestions?
WikiTree profile: Alfred Thomas
closed with the note: Resolved
in Policy and Style by Raewyn Vincent G2G6 Mach 7 (77.6k points)
closed by Jillaine Smith

2 Answers

+7 votes
 
Best answer
Recycle.

Writing over this profile with a new one loses nothing. There is no data, no way to identify this William Thomas as a particular person.
by Jim Parish G2G6 Pilot (173k points)
selected by Dawn Ellis
+7 votes
i'll reuse it tonight...
by Dawn Ellis G2G6 Pilot (102k points)
Awesome! - I had no use for it, but found it while looking through an error report.
done, kept the surname too.

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