What if I have already posted a copy of the works being imported on the AO3?

If you imported the work from the original archive using our import feature, then the work will not be imported again and your existing copy will be automatically associated with the new collection. If you posted the work manually or imported it from a different url, then you will need to decide what to do with the duplicate work. You can:

• Keep the version you posted manually and add it to the collection created for the imported archive. In this case you will wish to delete the duplicate copy.
• Delete the version you posted manually and claim the version created during the Archive import.
• Claim the imported version and choose to keep both versions (you may wish to do this if both versions of the work have comments and/or kudos, as there is no way of transferring comments from one work to another).