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voteview / WebVoteView

Webbased rollcall vote visualization software
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Generator of links to other members in member biographies is too aggressive #388

Open JeffreyBLewis opened 4 years ago

JeffreyBLewis commented 4 years ago

For example see,

https://voteview.com/person/99910/george-walker-bush

Here the "George Walker" in "BUSH, George Walker" is linked to a George Walker from Virginia in the late 18th century.

aaronrudkin commented 3 years ago

Okay, so, I think the initial code for this was way too ambitious and this requires a rethink. We also have not run this script in several years, so of course it's almost moot at this point, but basically here are the design considerations that make me think this should probably be a manual approval situation.

The bug identified in Bush's biography is long since fixed.

This should be a separate helper repo anyway. I'll create a repo for this at some point in the near future and move the issue.