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Will duplicate gear submissions be consolidated?

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bilge|95

Every time I search for some gear I often find it duplicated at least once if not more. Some of the gear has no pro artist references whilst other versions do. Sometimes it's split 50/50 between duplicates. These duplicates need consolidating somehow but there are no community tools to do this. Is this being done by administrators?

A good example would be the "NT1A". Not only is it duplicated but it also has variants that include accessories like pop filters. I'm not sure if this really makes sense but there should probably be a rule about this, too, with respect to whether this counts as a duplicate or not.

simfonik
simfonik|2532
In reply to bilge:

Just last week we created a tool to report duplicate items. Here's the link. It's really basic, but hopefully an improvement over how we were handling reporting of duplicates before.

I'm reviewing and merging the duplicates for now. Unfortunately, the reporter doesn't get feedback on the actions taken yet. We still need to build that.

Most of the duplicates came about because the item submission form didn't warn a contributor that they might be submitting something that was already on Equipboard. We updated the form a few weeks ago, and while it hasn't completely eradicated new duplicates, it has significantly decreased them.

We do need a way of grouping variations of the same product together.

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bilge|95
In reply to simfonik:

I appreciate you sharing that link but is it discoverable? I can't seem to navigate to that page.

simfonik
simfonik|2532
In reply to bilge:

It's not yet. We only shared it in the merge duplicates thread, to work out any kinks with those who are most active with merge requests, before making it discoverable.

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