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Separating tangled tags

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1Marissa_Doyle
Jun 4, 2018, 9:55 pm

How does one separate a tag that's been combined with a boatlaod of other tags that it really shouldn't have? The tag George III has been combined with a couple dozen others that apply specifically to King George III of Great Britain, which would not seem to be an accurate combination. Do each of the King George III of Great Britain-related tags have to be disassociated from plain old George III one by one, or is there a less laborious way to separate them?

2gilroy
Jun 5, 2018, 5:41 am

Laborious unfortunately.

3MarthaJeanne
Edited: Jun 5, 2018, 6:06 am

In theory, what you have done should work, but will probably be voted down because people don't go through to see why you are trying to separate two tags that look the same.

I put in a bunch of separations to get mmpb separated out from mass market paperback because a suggested combination was being voted down, but the separations aren't going through either.

4vpfluke
Jun 5, 2018, 10:45 pm

I think it would be neat for complicated combinations or separations the combiner could state the reasoning, instead of the voter guessing what is good or bad.

5Marissa_Doyle
Jun 6, 2018, 8:32 pm

>2 gilroy: Sigh. I was afraid of that.

>4 vpfluke: That would be helpful...

6Marissa_Doyle
Jun 6, 2018, 9:15 pm

I'm trying an experiment on a smaller scale with fewer variables, trying to separate Anne Neville from the tags concerning Anne Neville of Warwick, queen to Richard III. I hope this will go through, just to help serve as a blueprint for future tag untangling.

7norabelle414
Jun 7, 2018, 10:40 am

If you want to campaign for votes, you can post here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/171504