Of course this would only work where the poster used the article title exactly. We have far too many that insist on using their own titles, which makes future searches useless.
That won't solve the "heard it on the radio" problem, but will fix the typo/alteration problem ...and heard it on the radio doesn't have a searchable title anyway, LOL.
Is it possible to close duplicate threads to new posts, with the final reply linking posters to the active thread? That might eliminate the confusion generated when posters are unable to locate the undeleted thread. Perhaps the duplicates could be deleted at a later time.
I appreciate all the thought and effort that goes into this forum but I believe our moderator's valuable time is being wasted by this pursuit. Although I agree that the prevention (pre-submittal searches) are the best solution, I find this "cure" (article pruning) is worse than the disease (duplicate articles). This relentless slashing is making the site less usable.