cerb5-plugins/wgm.org_dupe_finder — Issue #1: Dupe finder has an issue with exact duplicates?
Author: cerb5-plugins
Created: 2012-01-12 19:53:10+00:00
State: open

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The primary thing the dupe finder looks for is names that are slightly different but mean the same thing. For example:

"WebGroup Media LLC"
"WebGroupMedia"
"Web Group Media"
"Webgroup Media L.L.C."

The process that it uses should be perfectly capable of finding exact duplicates, but they may be combined in a DISTINCT somewhere in the rendered groups.

This is so you'd see:
"WebGroup Media LLC"
"WebGroupMedia"
"WebGroupMedia"
"WebGroupMedia"
"WebGroupMedia"
"WebGroupMedia"

As just:
"WebGroup Media LLC"
"WebGroupMedia"

But if there truly are 5 dupes with the same name they should all be listed out, since the merge is only operating on a single pair at a time. With the example of 5 dupes above it would appear like the merge just didn't happen for 4 more times (because it would keep reporting the dupe pair) until they were all merged.