When you see the two contacts, you can choose one as the primary record and then click all of the fields in the non-primary records that you want merged (with the plus sign to the right of the field name). Then it will merge all of those fields that ...
Here is my use case:
I want team member Camille to not be able to edit almost any data in the base. But, weekly, Camille fills out a form for each of her projects that updates/edits the Key Accomplishments and Key Challenges fields for her project. ...