I'm not sure there can be such a thing as "too many". I have 400 Master
ources (a little over 4,000 individuals) but I might well consider that
omeone with only 40 Sources had more than was necessary or advisable if
hat person was a splitter, not a lumper.
A long time ago I minored in computer science. The "lumpers" in this debate
make me think of the axioms of systems analysis and design: "Data should be
entered into a system only once" and "data duplication should be avoided." See
Shelly, Cashman & Rosenblatt. On the other hand, as one who does research
professionally and a "splitter", I agree with Wikipedia: "A prime purpose of a
citation is intellectual honesty: to attribute prior or unoriginal work and
ideas to the correct sources, and to allow the reader to determine
independently whether the referenced material supports the author's argument in
the claimed way."
We should be able to store the citation once as the lumpers would like, but be
able to link the one source to as many events as the data support without have
to make copies of it in the database.
Yes, I know I can do a global search and replace. I just think that that is
poor design to the system.
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