Hi Sarah, Thanks for the bug report, you're right there was a problem with the search engine. This is now fixed, your changes are now visible.
-- Edward. On 11/11/11 05:39, Sarah Breau wrote: > > Hi Everyone! I'm confused about how the author merge works now. Yesterday I > was working on the author S. E. Hinton. As usual, her works were spread out > across 10 author records. First, I went through all the works and changed the > author to the master record, OL397826A. [I usually choose the author record > with the most works associated with it, unless someone has gone through and > added biographical information to one of the author records, in which case I > use that one.] Then I merged the other 9 authors to the master author record. > So there should be one author record, OL397826A, with 47 works in it, and no > author author records. > > However, when you search on "s e hinton", the search results show all 10 > author records with the works still spread out across them. Nothing has > changed in the search results! Each of the links now leads to the master > record OL397826A, but I'm confused about why they all show up, especially > since they all seem to have works associated with them (at the very least, > there should be 0 works for each of them except the master record). > > In the past, an author merge would result in only the master record being > returned in a search. I think that was better, since someone searching for > this author only wants to find one (i.e. the correct) record, not 1 correct > one and 9 wrong ones, all of which appear to have a few works associated with > them, which is not the case in the database (I hope). Is there something I > can do to make sure the old author records are actually empty, and also that > they do not appear in the search results? I.e., how can I get it to work like > it used to! ;-) > > Sarah > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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] _______________________________________________ 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]
