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Re: Find Duplicates Drawback

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From: Terry Harpold
Date: Sat, 29 May 1993 15:33
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Danny Blubaugh writes,

> Why not allow the user to determine which fields
> must match?  What also would be useful would be to allow the user to
> determine what degree of similarity constitutes a match.  For instance,
> often a match is not detected because one reference uses a single space
> where another uses a double space.  The user should be able to set EndNote
> so that a 95% correlation, say, constitutes a match.

-- Most of this is also on my wish list. Though I don't do very much
importing of data from an online source, I do have a habit of sometimes
forgetting that I read the same article and/or entered it into my EN
database a year ago (heck, sometimes I forget that I read the same article
two months ago... :-)). It would be very nice to be able to specify which
fields were matched in a "Find Duplicates." I suspect that the percent
correlation that Blubaugh wants might be tricky interface-wise. I'd settle
for the field-specific searching for matches.

Terry Harpold
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