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anonym
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 250 |
Merging duplicate entries
Hi guys,
there's some duplicate entries in the database. For example Offence has got an ex-member called Pal and an active member called Rooster, but both are the same person.
Could we maybe merge those two somehow so no information would be lost (as opposed to deleting one of them)? And then again, this is just an example, I am pretty sure that there are more of those.
/Frank
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TDJ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1879 |
Set up seems okay, so why not use the real name on top of the scener page, maybe with the 'primary' handle attached to it?
We're real people, please treat us as such :) |
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CyberBrain
Administrator
Posts: 392 |
Please, don't use the real name on top of the sceners pages!! :) We're sceners please treat us as such. (and who cares about the real names of sceners anyway?) (don't hope this will start one of those xtream discussions :) ) |
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TDJ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1879 |
If the scener (whose name is his key) is the root record, it would be sensible to have at least a page with his/her name on top. On that page could be links to other pages dealing with his handles.
You could also use a 'main' handle, but that's very hard, because different people may know a certain scener under a different 'main' handle.
As for your remark about "who cares about real names": I guess that's the difference between us, to me the most interesting thing of our scene was that it consisted of people.
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Perff
Administrator
Posts: 1666 |
I see the point in using the real name when the same person (scener) can have multiple handles BUT the only thing that is required to create a scener in CSDb is a handle! So you might find sceners with no real name (or at least no real name entered in CSDb. :) )
I'm still working on (re)coding CSDb to cope with the new feature of multiple handles and will do what I think is best. heh. ;)
When I'm done we can discuss if there are a better solution. |
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TDJ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1879 |
So create a super-user (heh) called 'anonymous' (sorry Frank) and connect all the handles without users to that one, use that as the mainpage. Ofcourse it would have to be possible to 'transfer' handles from one person to another, just in case somebody would find out that Jeroen's Tel real name is .. well .. |
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Rough
Account closed
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1829 |
you're so close to the light, TDJ, I let it out: I am Jeroen Tel! |
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Steppe
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 1510 |
Let us all bow before the Lord! ;-)
(Damn, I knew it....) |
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Commander
Account closed
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 106 |
I think that it is good that it starts with the handle and not with the real name! It's still a scene database, why making thibngs so difficult...? It's our own kind of world (a hobby for most of us), let's kep it like that. And my opinion : the guys of No Name did very good work with this Database, I don't agree with TDJ. If some people like it in their own way of taste, then start your own and see which database is the most popular... People should be happy that someone started this great project!!! Some of the people here don't have real critics anymore but simply look down to other people (even if they say it's not). Let us try to do our best, I think that the database is already a very nice thing for the moment and the webmaster improves it from time to time when he has time for it. I am greatfull for that.
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Commander
Account closed
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 106 |
Quote: and to all others, this way you could merge your handles... (hint commander :) )
Celtic! I tried to merge two old handles, but I saw that I can't add a group to it (some handles I used only in another group...), so there's no point to delete the other entries untill the webmaster fixes also a group to the older handles-thing. That's what I mean with losing some good information about some handles in the scene. Some handles have a history of their own, and it is too much to put that in the trivias and so on. It's still better to put every handle that excisted separately according to me.
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Seven
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 201 |
wake up, commander
Multiple handles for same scener now possible |
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