Not sure what to do first here - Bradt merge [closed]

Question

This profile will need to be merged but I am firstly concerned with the "dump" of information I found in the biography when I discovered it.  the

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was missing so I put that in but then found it way up in the middle of all that stuff so I rearranged things a bit but I am not sure if I should sort out this and cite it or delete most of it as it seems to be just copy/paste from what I can see and I worry about the copyright on that all - dang thing was not there when I skipped out on my Bradt work to go over to the other side of moms tree to the French Canadian/ Scots/ Métis side where some merges needed my attention but when I got back - BOOM there it was - any advice?

close - merged and text taken care of

Answer 1

As the profile it is to be merged into has a biography and is PPP, by the New Netherlands project.The first thing  I would message the project or its leader Ellen Smith.  The duplicate may have some C &P but may  also have useful info.I see the transcript of a will.  The pm of the duplicate is also active so needs to be involved.

Comments

I saw that I had put my message on the PPP one so I copied it over to the new one so the PM ought to be informed today

Answer 2

My idea

Paraphrase what you can ,then just cite ie

X did y in this year......

*The Ancestry of Aaron Van Patten (1828-1903) (Norman Lloyd van Patten).

Then wipe all the copy and paste stuff that you are wary of.

That’s my two cents worth 

Comments

That was my plan initially on that - then propose the merge - but had then seen a post here on G2G about plagiarism so I figured I had better get experts on it

then too in the public comments I see where the original profile went through a similar evolution before - years ago so trying to just get all the info in but be careful and ethical as well thanks Marion