Commit to One Duplicate Prevention Rule
Commit to a specific duplicate-prevention control tied to a creation pathway and measurable follow-up.
Pick one duplicate source, identify the create pathway, write the pre-create evidence check, and define what happens to high, medium, and low confidence matches. Use this for customer self-registration, supplier portal onboarding, ecommerce account creation, product SKU requests, or location/site creation where duplicates repeatedly appear after the fact. Duplicate source: [domain and pathway] Recurring symptom: [what duplicate appears] Root-cause guess: [why the pathway allows it] Pre-create evidence check: [identifier, name, domain, tax, address, part number, or hierarchy signal] High-confidence action: [block or merge candidate] Medium-confidence action: [steward review or quarantine] Low-confidence action: [allow with monitoring] Recurrence metric: [duplicate creation count…
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