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More info on weights etc in dedupe rules

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#400 opened on Jul 19, 2019

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In looking at https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/31423/deduplicate-by-name-and-surname-or-vice-versa/31425#31425

I realised that https://civicrm.org/blog/spidersilk/understanding-civicrm-dedupe-rules has more info than https://docs.civicrm.org/user/en/latest/common-workflows/deduping-and-merging/

  • we should pilfer some

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Review the blog post at https://civicrm.org/blog/spidersilk/understanding civicrm dedupe rules and extract the information about weights. Then update the user guide page (https://docs.civicrm.org/user/en/latest/common workflows/deduping and merging/) by adding this information in a clear and structured way.
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