If you do an author search, should the results reflect merges?
If there's a delay, what's the longest it should be?
For instance, if I search for Lewis Carroll:
http://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Lewis+Carroll
I get 19 hits, at least 9 of which represent the same person (the author
of "Alice in Wonderland"). Ripe for merging, it seems, but if I click on
"Merge authors", I only get a list of 11 hits -- the 9 that I would have
merged have *already* been merged. (Specifically, the "lesser" 8 have
been merged into the first: http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL22098A .)
Now, I suppose this is what I should expect if the merging happened only
a few minutes ago. But I did this particular search and attempt-to-merge
shortly after author-merging was announced (Aug 16th) and (as I recall)
got pretty much the same result.
More specifically, the second hit on the search results page is for:
http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL4915986A
If I go to the history page for that item:
http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL4915986A?m=history
I find that it was merged into OL22098A back on March 15, almost 6 months
ago. So why does it still show up as a separate hit in the search results?
-Michael
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