WS Best Practice - Is Duplicating Operations in multiple WSDLs OK?

My company is providing Web Services to multiple business partners for B2B and A2A Integration. We have Data Sets (XSD files) that are common to multiple services. One such example is a Customer Profile that contains stuff like Name, Address, Employment, etc. Since several of our Services (Existing and Future) includes the Customer Profile element (or some subset of it) in the request Message / Document we're expecting that the Service Consumer has already obtain the Customer Profile from an earlier Web Service call.
While we have a standalone Customer Profile Service, when Other Services requires the Customer Profile as input should we force the Service Consumer to call the Customer Profile Service (therefore requiring them to use at least 2 Web Services for the Integration), or should we add a Proxy Operation in the Other Service that would bundle all operations required by a particular Integration into 1 Composite Service?
Now we are not trying to create Consumer specific Web Services. We want to encourage re-use as much as possible. The whole idea of including an operation like "getCustomerProfile" in multiple WSDL / Service Contracts is only intended to simplify integration requirements for cases where a Service Consumer may only care about 1 specific Service or Integration scenario.
Another way to ask this question might be: If a Web Service requires a Data Set / Element in the Request that can only be provided by the Service Provider, should the Service also provide an operation for querying the required Data Set / Element; or in the case of a commonly used Data Set require that it be queried from a different Web Service?
Thanks

If you have things set up so that your layer names end with a space and a number, so that they increment when you duplicate them, you should be able to use the layer's name to navigate to the other layers in the set. For example, if your layers are named "layer 1", "layer 2", etc. and your control layers are named "control 1", "control 2", etc., you could do something like this in your expressions to construct the control layer's name on the fly:
n = name.split(" ");
ctrl = thisComp.layer("control " + n[n.length-1]);
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