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lu127 Paper Master from 異界 Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
#1: Nov 4th 2012 at 1:18:26 AM

I was converting FanficRecs.Tales Of The Abyss to the review format, when I realised something. Two fanfics already had reviews in the button, even though I hadn't moved anything.

However, if you click to see those reviews, they aren't actually about those fanfics. The recommendation for the fanfic "Reflections", (first rec on Tales of the Abyss) links to this review. Only that review isn't referring to the Tales of the Abyss "Reflections" fanfic, but a fanfic of the same name on FanficRecs.The Sandman.

So it looks like if two recommendations have the same name, their reviews get mixed up. Is there anything we can do about it?

edited 4th Nov '12 1:19:19 AM by lu127

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#2: Mar 14th 2016 at 10:03:00 AM

Bump to measure interest.

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war877 Grr... <3 from Untamed Wilds Since: Dec, 2015 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
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#3: Mar 14th 2016 at 10:51:12 AM

If this still happens, this is a serious issue. However, much like how works get their subpages mixed up when they have the same name, the correct solution may be to decorate the name of fanfic reviews with disambiguation information such as originating work or date of publication.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#4: Nov 5th 2016 at 9:14:36 AM

The title collision thing should probably be fixed as part of 2.0, hacking in a separate solution is sub-par; so closing.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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