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==How to use it==
There are occasions when I have found two articles about the same person, when the persons are known by more than one name. This might be the case for persons from history, for persons from countries with non-Latin alphabets and varied transliterations into English, and for authors versus pen-names. One example is [[Prince Henry, Duke of Cornwall]] which was merged to [[Henry, Duke of Cornwall]]. How, exactly, would one look up the "Authority control" number for the subject of a new biography, to see if there is an existing bio for that person? Could a bot create a list of articles about the same entity under different names or spellings, so that a merger could be considered, just as the two aforementioned articles were merged? (Some conspiracy theorists will have a field day with the notion that Wikipedia is coming under '''"Deep Authority Control Integration."''') [[User:Edison|Edison]] ([[User talk:Edison|talk]]) 15:41, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
:Generating such lists by bot will be no problem at all, I think. A database of all "persondata" and "authority control" data can be maintained on the toolsever. We do that for de.wikipedia data for years now (it is the database behind http://toolserver.org/~apper/pd/ ), and the whole thing is being re-programmed to serve even more purposes right now; so I think there might be a chance that the same thing can easily be adapted to en.wikipedia needs. Well, not "we" do it, acatually [[:en:User:Appper]] did the whole work. But I think it shouldn't be any problem to get lists of double entries of authority data from such a database on a regular basis. --[[User:AndreasPraefcke|AndreasPraefcke]] ([[User talk:AndreasPraefcke|talk]]) 21:18, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
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