Identifying duplicates incorrectly
Hi, I'm working on a project and there are "duplicate items" Zotero is flagging that are clearly not duplicates. For example, I have a couple items where they detect 53 potential duplicates (but the citations are very different). I didn't have this problem in the past - is it a glitch?
For example, when I click on "a pooled analysis of efficacy and safety of ertugliflozin as add on therapy to metformin" (see screenshot), to the right it says there are 53 items we could merge, even though there's really only 2 with the same title.
No way to change this without modifying the source code and recompiling, sorry.
Hi developers.
I have the similar problem with duplicated items.
I have a huge number of duplicated items in the folder. However, only 3-5 of them can be considered as duplicates. All other differ from each other.
Many of them are in only 1 instance and there is not another record which can be selected.
Other are marked as duplicates but they definitely different. You can see the screenshot of the last example - this two records have only identical type of the paper. And all other information is different completely.
http://www.triacon.org/mycloud/dups.jpg
I knowingly put 2 screenshots close to each other but select different versions as master.
You also can look at the list of the duplicated items sorted by Title. There only couple of similar (not identical) titles while all other differ from each other.
I think that the best and simple solution at the moment could be to add the possibility to unmark items from duplicates list.
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Hi, dear developers!
@adamsmith @dstillman
It seems I have found the problem
The selected items have IDENTICAL itemID!
http://www.triacon.org/mycloud/itemid3604.jpg
As you can see this value 3604 assigned to 4 items in the database.
The last 2 are close to each other. But the first 2 are differ.
In the duplicates list only 2 of them indicated the first in the list in picture and the last.
I tried to search the second record (ISO 13.020) in Zotero and you can see it was found, but refers to the last record. I think this is because the record of ISO 13.020 was deleted.
So now is your turn.
Regards
Andrey
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20149317/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20647995/
This seems like an easy improvement: certain item types cannot be duplicates like books and journal articles.
Can you elaborate what you mean by "no way to change this without modifying the source code and recompiling"? How would this work?