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<blockquote data-quote="Davin" data-source="post: 309004" data-attributes="member: 1183">Organization is definitely an issue that should be addressed to keep from confusing everyone who wants the results.&nbsp; I'd recommend some one person volunteering to combine &amp; republish all the results from one area.&nbsp; For instance, several people might work on FR stuff, but then one person should take all those files and then combine them together and republish it as a single file (with appropriate attributions, of course, and also of course assuming that the IP holders are agreeable).Actually, my take on that is to not avoid the duplication, but make use of it.&nbsp; *Let* 2 or 3 people enter the same set of gods (or spells or whatever), then have the coordinator compare those files against one another.&nbsp; If they're identical, then we can be reasonably assured that they're done correctly and in a way that most people would like to see.&nbsp; If they're not identical, find out where and go back to the individual authors to see if some agreement can be reached on the exact spelling (or whatever is different) that should be used.How about creating subdirectories by author and keep all that author's files there so you can backtrack where it came from?&nbsp; Unfortunately, eTools doesn't provide for any external author identification mechanism once it's in the datbase itself.Hopefully, the review and combine processes noted above can help get a consistent set of files without errors so this problem doesn't crop up much (we hope!).This one I can answer...&nbsp; Duplicate items (as in, from the same initial creation, not just things with the same names) are overwritten (updated) when they're re-imported.&nbsp; So in the case where you're putting out updated files with simply additional information in them, just having the users re-import them is perfectly acceptable.&nbsp; (If you delete something or recreate it from scratch or want to overwrite someone else's data, *then* you have to have them delete it from their file before adding your stuff back in.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Davin, post: 309004, member: 1183"] Organization is definitely an issue that should be addressed to keep from confusing everyone who wants the results. I'd recommend some one person volunteering to combine & republish all the results from one area. For instance, several people might work on FR stuff, but then one person should take all those files and then combine them together and republish it as a single file (with appropriate attributions, of course, and also of course assuming that the IP holders are agreeable). Actually, my take on that is to not avoid the duplication, but make use of it. *Let* 2 or 3 people enter the same set of gods (or spells or whatever), then have the coordinator compare those files against one another. If they're identical, then we can be reasonably assured that they're done correctly and in a way that most people would like to see. If they're not identical, find out where and go back to the individual authors to see if some agreement can be reached on the exact spelling (or whatever is different) that should be used. How about creating subdirectories by author and keep all that author's files there so you can backtrack where it came from? Unfortunately, eTools doesn't provide for any external author identification mechanism once it's in the datbase itself. Hopefully, the review and combine processes noted above can help get a consistent set of files without errors so this problem doesn't crop up much (we hope!). This one I can answer... Duplicate items (as in, from the same initial creation, not just things with the same names) are overwritten (updated) when they're re-imported. So in the case where you're putting out updated files with simply additional information in them, just having the users re-import them is perfectly acceptable. (If you delete something or recreate it from scratch or want to overwrite someone else's data, *then* you have to have them delete it from their file before adding your stuff back in.) [/QUOTE]

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