On 2011-02-11 16:04, Tom Morris wrote:
>  From this history page
> http://openlibrary.org/recentchanges?ip=89.247.71.94 it looks like
> someone went through and deleted a bunch of Mark Twain author pages
> which should have been merged.
>
>    http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL6071469A
>    http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL6597295A
>
> Why are people allowed to delete author pages at all?
>
> What can be done to repair this damage and get the IDs to work and
> redirect to the correct place?  I tried the "Recreate page" option on
> the deleted page in hopes that I could then merge it, but it didn't
> seem to have any effect.

The deletes happened before we built the system for merging authors. It 
is no longer possible to delete pages from Open Library.

-- 
Edward.
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