On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Edward Betts <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Excellent. What about the second part of the question -- repairing the damage so that references to those URLs resolve properly? Tom _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
