Hi, Based on April's datadump I created a file [1] with links to merge duplicate (6 or more) authors with "United States" in their names. It's a long list of links, all labeled "Merge" for now, that take you to the form that ask which authors you want to merge and which is the "master".
I got carried away a little, hence perhaps more than 100 links have been clicked already. You can tell if there is only one author left in the form and there aren't any duplicates to merge. If you do it the way I did (the number of authors whose names contain "United States" has gone down from 33500+ to under 28000), watch out for carpal tunnel syndrome... I guess merging a couple can't hurt though. I'm creating a list of many more authors to merge, including authors with just one (possible) duplicate. That list will contain over 100000 author names, so well over 200000 authors. If you have ideas on how to share that work, I'd be interested to hear them :) Regards, Ben [1] http://companjen.name/ol/mergeurls.html _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
