> Interesting. It is important to create redirects though, for merged authors. I
> wonder if that would break with this approach.

No, no breakage when you follow the edits with the usual author merge.

The only difference is that the author merge just sees the secondary
author as having no works; they are already owned by the primary
author record.  In either case, the secondary author record still
redirects to the primary, who owns all the works.  It's just a way of
avoiding bugs in changing the author on the secondary works.

One clarification: In my experience, if you change the author on a
work from a secondary author to the desired primary author, you MUST
WAIT the 10+ minutes for the index updates to reflect the new status,
before doing the author merge.  Otherwise things can definitely get
messed up.

- Alan
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