Advice about changing spouse of profile with no manager

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I have today taken over as profile manager of Hay-3679 and have noticed that it appears to conflate two individuals. It was originally created as spouse for Merrilees-731 but at some point has been incorrectly added as the father of Hay-1120, thus linking into a long line of descendants including myself. thus Hay-3679 appears to have been married twice, whereas I think it is two people who have each been married once.

The simplest solution seems to me to be to create a new Hay spouse for Merrilees-731, since her profile is not linked in any way to any other profiles. Since there is no profile manager for Merrilees-731, I am not sure who to approach to check if this is appropriate. (Perhaps the person who originally created the profile?)

On the other hand I could restore Hay-3679 back to its original state and create a new Hay profile as father for Hay-1120. This would however, take a lot more work, and I've already put in a lot of time working on the profile of - as I understood it to be - the father of Hay-1120.

I'd be very grateful if someone could advise.
WikiTree profile: Charles Hay of Rannes
in Policy and Style by Sally Douglas G2G6 Mach 3 (36.9k points)

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Sally, thank you for taking on this task!  In terms of the end result, of course it really doesn't make any difference which way you de-conflate the profile by creating another profile for one person and fixing the original to be for the other person.

Since the other spouse has no profile manager, there is no need for you to ask anyone anything - *YOU* are a full fledged member here and encouraged to edit any open profile, as long as you are providing well researched sourced information.  If there were a manager then you'd be expected to collaborate by letting them know what you have found.

Thank you again for your willingness to help fix errors on our shared tree!
by Gaile Connolly G2G Astronaut (1.2m points)
selected by E Childs
Thank you for your help, Gaile. Your answer gave me the confidence to go ahead. I think I've sorted it all now!

Sally
Good work Sally

Thank you, Navarro. smiley

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