Duplicate entries
Which pages are the same drug under a different name? The 33 groups of pages that resolve to the same species without being distinguished by plant part, classified as one drug under several names or as genuinely different drugs. 24 groups were one drug under several names; 5 share a species but are genuinely different drugs.
How it was checked
- Taxonomy resolution made this findable: once every botanical name carried a GBIF key, pages sharing a species could be listed mechanically. 48 species were carried by more than one page.
- Pages distinguished by a plant-part or preparation suffix were removed first, deterministically. Narikela is the coconut and narikela-jala is its water, and those are different drugs.
- The remaining 33 groups were read page by page, then reviewed by a second reader instructed to be biased AGAINST consolidation, because merging two pages that should be separate loses information a reader cannot recover.
- The reviewer overruled nothing and left nothing unreviewed, and it protected the cases that matter: nutmeg and mace both come from Myristica fragrans, fenugreek seed and leaf carry different markers and doses, and Guduchi satva is a derived preparation rather than a synonym of the crude drug.
What came out
| groupsExamined | 33 |
|---|---|
| oneDrugUnderSeveralNames | 24 |
| genuinelyDifferentDrugs | 5 |
| mixedGroups | 4 |
| overruledByReviewer | 0 |
| pagesGivenACanonical | 24 |
Caveat
No page was deleted or merged. Each alias keeps its URL and its content, because the Sanskrit, Hindi and English names are all in real use and a reader arriving on any of them should land somewhere useful. What changed is that the alias now declares the primary as its canonical, so an index that clusters near-duplicates consolidates them on the page we chose rather than picking one on its own.