Since I started merging United States authors, we have merged over 8000 duplicates! :)
On 18 May 2012 00:41, Ben Companjen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]
