Hi Sarah, Just a follow up about how the author merge works. You don't need to edit the works to point at the master before doing the merge. The author merge code will update all works to point at the master author.
This might not be clear from the author page you land on after a merge. The list of works on the author page is generated from the search engine. Normally there is about a five minute delay for updates to appear in the search engine. -- 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]
