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Automatic detection of potential duplicate profiles

It would be amazing if Populi could automatically detect and flag profiles with names that are unusually similar.

(e.g. the same name entered twice, but with the middle and last name swapped in one instance, or a name that has the same first and middle but different last, or a name that is identical to another name but is lacking the middle name... and so on).

Most phone contact applications do this, and will ask you "is this the same person? Do you want to merge contacts?"

After transferring into Populi from an old system, we are still bumping into duplicate profiles years later, and it seems there is no way to sort for them specifically without scrolling indefinitely through a long list of names and just seeing if we happen to notice some that are similar.

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