On the topic of duplicates: last night during a concert by the Canadian band Stars, I entered the setlist on my phone, and noticed that the autocomplete gave me two capitalizations of one of their songs: "No One Is Lost" and "No One is Lost." Since it would have been awkward to look up which version was "correct" just then, I chose the latter at random and made a mental note to revisit it today. In the meantime, someone beat me to it and changed it to the former, which is the version that's used everywhere else.
What I noticed next was that the "incorrect" version doesn't actually appear in the band's stats, which is great since nobody wants two versions of the same title kicking around and messing up the numbers. However, I'm inferring that it never got purged from the database after the last reference to it was removed, which is why it showed up as an option in the first place. It makes perfect sense that this wouldn't just magically happen, but would it be practical to do this extra check whenever song titles are changed? That way, once issues like this were corrected once, they wouldn't have to keep being corrected in the future, and we'd presumably end up with fewer instances of that pesky "duplicate title" problem.
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On the topic of duplicates: last night during a concert by the Canadian band Stars, I entered the setlist on my phone, and noticed that the autocomplete gave me two capitalizations of one of their songs: "No One Is Lost" and "No One is Lost." Since it would have been awkward to look up which version was "correct" just then, I chose the latter at random and made a mental note to revisit it today. In the meantime, someone beat me to it and changed it to the former, which is the version that's used everywhere else.
What I noticed next was that the "incorrect" version doesn't actually appear in the band's stats, which is great since nobody wants two versions of the same title kicking around and messing up the numbers. However, I'm inferring that it never got purged from the database after the last reference to it was removed, which is why it showed up as an option in the first place. It makes perfect sense that this wouldn't just magically happen, but would it be practical to do this extra check whenever song titles are changed? That way, once issues like this were corrected once, they wouldn't have to keep being corrected in the future, and we'd presumably end up with fewer instances of that pesky "duplicate title" problem.