Duplicate Political Districts

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    1. narphorium Top Contributor Freebase Experts
      Aug 5, 2008
      narphorium says:
      There appear to be a lot of duplicate Political Districts - at least for Canada. Too many for me to flag them all for merge by hand. It could be a problem with the Wikipedia crawler.
      2. jeff Metaweb Staff
        Aug 5, 2008
        jeff says:
        It's not the Wikipedia crawler -- it's Wikipedia itself. If there are two articles for something in Wikipedia, those will both be added to Freebase.  Some of them appear not to be true duplicates, but simply provincial and federal ridings with the same name (see the two Brampton Wests: here and here; they have the same name, and appear to use the same map, but they were formed on different dates).
      3. narphorium Top Contributor Freebase Experts
        Aug 6, 2008
        narphorium says:
        Hmm...I guess there's no easy way to differentiate between identical districts with different juristictions right now.

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