On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren <
reosare...@musicbrainz.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Karen Coyle <kco...@kcoyle.net> wrote:
>
>> Wow. This really is a mess. Goethe links to John Leonard Greenberg:
>>
>> {"created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value":
>> "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"},
>> "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value":
>> "2012-10-06T06:14:51.772036"},
>> "latest_revision": 23,
>> "location": "/authors/OL575040A", < -- John Leonard Greenberg
>> "key": "/authors/OL13193A", <- Goethe
>> "type": {"key": "/type/redirect"}, "revision": 23}
>>
>> So there's no way to see the Goethe author page or anything authored by
>> Goethe. Someone here knows how to retrieve earlier revisions ... Could
>> we see a couple prior to #23 for /authors/OL13193A? Maybe someone merged
>> these manually and we can roll back the merge?
>>
>
> Most confusing is that, with a normal merge, all of Goethe's works
> *should* appear on Greenberg's page, shouldn't they? They're certainly
> attributed to him, see http://openlibrary.org/works/OL15087757W/Briefe
>
> Yet http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL575040A/John_Leonard_Greenberg shows
> only 4 works (not including that one).
>
You may have looked after I reverted part of the bad merge. I've fixed up
Goethe as well
http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL13193A/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe?v=21
but what's really needed is to revert this entire merge:
http://openlibrary.org/recentchanges/2012/10/06/merge-authors/47124736
I presume Anand has tools to do this programatically, but if not I could
write a quick script to do it. It's too bad the user who made the bad
merge didn't tell someone back in October. It's pretty clear from the edit
history that they realized they'd messed up.
Tom
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