Disallow duplicate advertisers

[melinath]

Right now, it's possible to have duplicate advertisers. For example, I could have two advertisers called BECU, each with the company website http://becu.org/.

It seems like it would make sense to require at least one of those fields to be unique. Maybe even both? Thoughts?

[andrewebdev]

@melinath It wont really stop duplicate names that have a slightly different spelling, so I feel that this responsibility can be shifted to the content editor.
However, since the url field can be more controlled (ie. we can force it to be lowercase) we can make this unique. What do you think?

[melinath]

Looking at this again, I can also imagine situations where the company website could be the same for different advertisers - say if two branches of the same company were paying separately for ads. Maybe a more comprehensive solution would be some kind of merge functionality.