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Gramps addons for Isotammi project / Isotammen Gramps-lisäosia
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Automerge can be very dangerous for sources that can only be distinguished by author #14

Closed ennoborg closed 1 year ago

ennoborg commented 1 year ago

When I use the MultiMerge gramplet for sources, it has very dangerous side effects for sources that have identical titles and different authors. And I had a few of those, where the title was a generic one, just saying 'email', and I used the author field to categorize them. I had about 50 of them, and now they have all been merged into a single source, with one author, who didn't write most of them.

I was lucky in the sense that most email texts were attached to the citations, so they are still linked to their original objects, but I will still have some work on this.

Please make it so, that sources are only merged when author, title, and maybe even publication info, are the same.

kkujansuu commented 1 year ago

Thanks, that makes sense. Were you using the "Automerge" feature or using Multimerge in the "manual mode"?

ennoborg commented 1 year ago

Automerge.

Note that, on completion, it says N locations merged. It should say sources of course.

kkujansuu commented 1 year ago

Note that, on completion, it says N locations merged. It should say sources of course.

Yes, I noticed that bug now also.

kkujansuu commented 1 year ago

There is now a checkbox to indicate that authors must also match when sources are automerged. It is on by default.

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There is a similar feature for place types.