# 3.2.5. Potential Duplicates

<p class="callout danger"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Please, always pay attention to duplicate warnings (here is an example of it):</span></p>

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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When clicking on the option **“View potential duplicate”**, you can check the details of the publication that already exists in Pure.</span>

<p class="callout warning"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If you realise that the publication you want to import/create already exists in Pure, please **refrain** from importing/creating it again. </span></p>

<p class="callout info"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If the types of the publications are **different**, for example, if you want to import/create a journal publication and a book up as potential duplicate, then it is not a real duplicate, and you can import/create your journal publication without creating a duplicate.</span></p>