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#914 Duplicate finder fails on variants

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2016-08-12
2015-07-14
Darrah Chavey
No

Edit by Ahasuerus: Move from Bugs to FRs. The software is working as intended and this is a proposed change to the functionality.

When executing a request to "Check for Duplicate Titles", titles written under pseudonyms are not necessarily processed properly. For example, at present Anatoly Dnieprov (www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?17078) has a title "Formula Bessmertiya". It has two varianted titles, each called "Formula of Immortality" (as by Anatoly Dneprov). If you do a duplicate search on the canonical name, it does not notice those two identical titles. (If you go to the pseudonym and do a duplicate search there, even though it has no books listed, it does find those two identical titles. But we really shouldn't have to check every pseudonym of every author for this kind of check!) I have left this pair of titles as is, so as to provide an example of this problem.

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  • Ahasuerus

    Ahasuerus - 2016-08-12

    Ticket moved from /p/isfdb/bugs/578/

     

  • Ahasuerus

    Ahasuerus - 2016-08-12
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-(Possibly a feature request, but this feels like a bug to me.)
+Edit by Ahasuerus: Move from Bugs to FRs. The software is working as intended and this is a proposed change to the functionality.
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 When executing a request to "Check for Duplicate Titles", titles written under pseudonyms are not necessarily processed properly. For example, at present Anatoly Dnieprov (www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?17078) has a title "Formula Bessmertiya". It has two varianted titles, each called "Formula of Immortality" (as by Anatoly Dneprov). If you do a duplicate search on the canonical name, it does not notice those two identical titles. (If you go to the pseudonym and do a duplicate search there, even though it has no books listed, it does find those two identical titles. But we really shouldn't have to check every pseudonym of every author for this kind of check!) I have left this pair of titles as is, so as to provide an example of this problem.
    • Group: v1.0 (example) --> Approved
     

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