Bug in merging

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This profile shows as a half sibling to itself. (Same WikiTree ID with exact same parents.) The daughter shows connected to the father and mother but then the daughter is not listed in the father's profile. Not sure how this happened.
WikiTree profile: Dixie Ann Hickey
in WikiTree Tech by Topher Sims G2G6 Mach 1 (12.5k points)
retagged by Jamie Nelson
It happens.  The merged-away profile gets redirected but one of its parent connections doesn't get removed.

Go to the father and "remove" the surplus child, Hickey-1839.
RJ is right about how to fix this frequently recurring bug.  The fact that the two already merged profiles are shown as half siblings adds another layer of complication, though.  It says to me that there is a duplicate profile for one of the parents.  I have not looked to try to identify which parent, but I'm sure you will find that the profile ID of one of the parents is different on the original profiles that were merged.  You'll also need to figure that out and merge those duplicates.

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+3 votes
Looks like a real bug, just tried RJ's tip to remove the Hickey-1839 child but it wasn't possible. Also tried if removing the parents and re attaching them perhaps could do to the trick, but it didn't work either, so I think we might need some help from our wiki tech team to get this fixed. You can add the tag tech as well to the question and it will be fixed I'm sure. :)
by Bea Wijma G2G6 Pilot (303k points)
I'm looking at the profile and I don't see a half-sibling -- you say that it still wasn't fixed after you made changes? Does it look fixed now?
Topher has fixed it.

The issue seems to be that you can save changes to a merged-away profile, presumably if you have it open for editing in another tab.
It's fixed now indeed the dupe / half sibling is no longer visible, and not sure how it was fixed, but perhaps it took a few hours before the change was visible ? (so just like when you connect a profile that was unconnected to the main tree, this also is visible within 24 hours)

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