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by mujoco 2714 days ago
Cool idea! The string matching seems a bit brittle on the names I tried -- "Beatles" turns up no results, but "The Beatles" works. Same goes for "Rolling Stones"/"The Rolling Stones".
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That's true, I'll look into having it try more variances on the entered name when it searches Wikipedia
This is fixed now