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
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