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#113 Refine "check for duplicates" logic -- title types

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2011-08-10
2009-07-06
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The "check for duplicates logic currently offers possible matches without regard for type, so that often a merge between a shortfiction title and a novel is offered. That is acceptable, because once in a while when a novel has been mis-entered as a short work (or vice versa) such a merge is the right thing to do. (This can happen when a large anthology is enterd from a secondary soruce and the entering editor incorrectly assumes that all contents are shortfiction.) It would be nice if there was some visual alert about mis-matched types, because often such a merge is a mistake.

However, it will also offer a match between fiction types and container types -- a collection may be matched with its title story; an omnibus may be matched with a novel of the same title; and now that support had been enabled, a chapterbook is quite likely to be matched with the corresponding work of shortfiction. it is pretty much never correct to merge a title record of a fiction type (NOVEL or SHORTFICTION) with a title of a container type (COLLECTION, ANTHOLOGY, OMNIBUS, or CHAPTERBOOK). Such matches should not be offered by the check for duplicates logic.

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  • Ahasuerus

    Ahasuerus - 2009-07-30

    Clarified the summary.

     
  • Ahasuerus

    Ahasuerus - 2009-07-30
    • summary: Rrefine "check for duplicates" logic -- types --> Refine "check for duplicates" logic -- title types
     
  • Ahasuerus

    Ahasuerus - 2009-12-17

    As of r2009-73: Eliminated case sensitivity when running in "Exact" mode. The logic no longer tries to match SHORTFICTION records against COLLECTIONs, ANTHOLOGIES, OMNIBUSES or CHAPTERBOOKS. Further refinements under consideration.

     
  • Ahasuerus

    Ahasuerus - 2009-12-17
    • assigned_to: nobody --> ahasuerus_isfdb
     
  • Bill Longley

    Bill Longley - 2011-07-29

    Michael and I would like REVIEWs to be excluded from matching, due to people like P. Schuyler Miller.

     
  • Bill Longley

    Bill Longley - 2011-07-29

    edit/find_dups.py 1.9 submitted for consideration.

     
  • Ahasuerus

    Ahasuerus - 2011-08-10

    Reviews excluded from Find Duplicates in r2011-56.

     
  • Ahasuerus

    Ahasuerus - 2011-08-10
    • status: open --> closed
     

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