Looking back, it’s kind of hilarious how this whole saga unfolded.
The importer script itself is now rock-solid: UID markers, dedupe logic, meaningful vs. quiet updates, tag namespaces… all the stuff you’d actually want in production. The behaviours line up perfectly with the notes i posted — times define uniqueness, locations trigger a bump, descriptions update quietly, and UID markers keep everything anchored. It’s elegant, it’s predictable, it’s done. 
Meanwhile, the poor Meta topic that hosted it all was… well, doomed.
It began life replying as a sockpuppet (strong start 
), ballooned into a Frankenstein thread of code dumps and screenshots, then evolved into a pseudo-changelog with more commits than the repo itself. And just as the script finally became stable? Scheduled for deletion. 
Honestly, it’s poetic. The script’s entire purpose is to stop duplicate events from cluttering up your forum. The topic itself? Seen as a duplicate, quietly marked for garbage collection. The very fate it was built to prevent became its destiny. 
So here’s to the doomed topic:
You didn’t bump Latest, but you bumped our hearts. 