Joe, I think everything you are doing is super.

One thing that might help with the eventual weirdness factor would be that when you insert the pink note about having combined threads, maybe dating that note would clarify (for you and for later thread readers) how the combined comments might relate to one another... if you do your insertion in someone else's post you're borrowing their time frame.

Finally, is there a value to making a NEW thread for ALL the combined stuff to go into, so that you can start it off with a standard-pasted comment about it having been combined, and maybe any details about how or what you did, and giving a heads-up that as newer threads occur and are spotted they will get tossed in as well?

But really, whatever you do is great. Just keep it simple enough not to make yourself nuts cuz I know you like to do other fun stuff around here too. *G*

If you want to practice on the spirituals threads, of course, there is a set of them already dug up for you and a chance to play with how you want to do it, within an existing project that has a certain scope to it, in case you want to redo any of the ones you did as you figure out simpler approaches. It's a bit early to see how some of the could be combined, but there are a few where it might make sense to start. Let me know if you want to operate on them, though, would you? There are various things going on with those that we would want to coordinate.

~Susan