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Duplicate Release Suggestions Report

In the list of [WWW] Moderation Suggestions reports, one of the DuplicateSuggestions is the one for [WWW] Releases that might need merging.

The report is sorted by artist ArtistSortName, and lists pairs of releases with very similar track listings. One weakness of the report is that it doesn't take track times into account.

An extremely convenient feature of this report is the "Merge into this" links; these take you to the MergeReleasesEdit page where you can check the track times and other release information, convert to merge in the other direction, navigate to related MusicBrainz pages, or just use the Back button on your browser to abandon the proposed merge without making any changes.

This report is a suggestion, not a list of confirmed duplicates. Moderators should evaluate it as such, and should always check track times for significant (> 5 sec.) differences.

Nonetheless, this is a very useful report, and the accuracy rate is surprisingly high for an automated process. If you do find false positives (i.e. releases that are incorrectly reported as duplicates) please add them to the list of NotDuplicateReleases, and Wendell will try to suppress them from future reports, as well as using them to further improve the accuracy of the report.


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