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Originally Posted by anoukaimee
But one feature that I'm either not finding or does not exist: is there a way to exempt found variants when using the "find metadata variations . . ." tool, in the same way that one can mark duplicates as exempt in future searches? Find I'm often going over the same old Jonathan Smiths and John Smiths, and it'd be nice if there was a way to avoid that. I don't see anything obvious (and I did search in this thread, alas no hits). Am I missing something, is this possible to implement, or have you ruled it out?
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No such feature exist. Also the books exemption functionality have some problems, as evidenced by the posts above yours. It needs to be fixed before looking at re-implementing it for authors. I don't have the time nor the inclination to do either of these.
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Originally Posted by anoukaimee
Also, as an aside: are you taking recs on possible "similar" names that wouldn't be caught using your algorithms? There's always your Roberts and Bobs, your Katherines and Cathryns, and they don't get caught. I'd be happy to keep a running list as I'm going thru mine [which I do embarassingly often because cleaning data is weirdly soothing lol]; if you'd like the data, let me know where I might send it. Or, if there is an algorithm that I should be using but just don't understand, would love a push in the right direction.
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The advanced mode supports custom user defined algorithms, but you need to install
another plugin to enable this feature. It would not be complicated to implement an algorithm that supports what you want. But I guess it would incur some performance penalties.