# Erroneous "Duplicates" Warning?

**URL:** <https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/erroneous-duplicates-warning/26263>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [January 12, 2023, 9:18am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/erroneous-duplicates-warning/26263 "2023-01-12T09:18:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![pwintz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/pwintz/32/10112_2.png) [@pwintz](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/pwintz)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 9:18am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/erroneous-duplicates-warning/26263/1 "2023-01-12T09:18:42Z")

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For my card type, the sort field is the third field, “Country Name”. The first field, “svg\_fild\_name”, is expected to be duplicated among several cards, but Anki is warning me that it is duplicated. I thought that the warning was for duplicated sort fields. Am I mistaken, or is this a bug?

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Version ⁨2.1.56 (bc697597)⁩  
Python 3.9.15 Qt 6.4.0 PyQt 6.4.0

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**Author:** ![abdo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/abdo/32/654_2.png) [@abdo](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/abdo)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 10:10am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/erroneous-duplicates-warning/26263/2 "2023-01-12T10:10:03Z")

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The duplicate check always uses the first field:

> [@Detect dups on Sort Field instead of 1st field](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/detect-dups-on-sort-field-instead-of-1st-field/5411):
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> (I’m not sure whether this is an intentional feature or an overlooked bug, so posting under the suggestion category.) Each note has one field marked as Sort Field. I think of it as a key element and face of each note. Its value is displayed in a Browser’s list of cards and very often it’s the first field of a note. However, let’s say I want to move it down and put a much less significant field first, hence to make a note look more natural to me (in terms of fields order). A simple case would b…

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**Author:** ![r.j.appleton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ad7895/32.png) [@r.j.appleton](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/r.j.appleton)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2023, 3:22pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/erroneous-duplicates-warning/26263/3 "2023-01-15T15:22:35Z")

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> [@abdo](#):
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> The duplicate check always uses the first field

That’s very unfortunate for language learning where you might naturally have a gender field as the first field.

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**Author:** ![abdo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/abdo/32/654_2.png) [@abdo](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/abdo)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/erroneous-duplicates-warning/26263/4 "2023-01-15T16:11:55Z")

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If the notetype is intended for learning the gender of a given word, I would make the word field the first instead.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/erroneous-duplicates-warning/26263/5 "2023-02-14T16:11:59Z")

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Closed on February 14, 2023, 4:11pm UTC

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