On 07-Apr-2013, at 9:59 PM, jessamyn c. west wrote:

> This is the third one of these that I've seen. There was a huge merge
> involving Barbara Cartland and a ton of unrelated romance authors and
> another one I saw a few days ago. I've been emailing them to Anand,
> but they haven't been getting fixed. Here is one example.
> 
> http://openlibrary.org/works/OL14862506W/Heiress
> 
> There's a revert option but it times out. I think some of these are
> either malicious or someone just goofing around or experimenting. The
> people I've seen doing this sort of thing usually have very few other
> edits and never come back. I usually block people who do giant
> disfiguring merges so that we can talk to them and make sure it was an
> accident and not vandalism
[...]

Sorry for the delay. I've reverted it now.

Please pass on any more bad merges that you find to me. 

I think the current way of merging is too difficult to revert back. I'll work 
implementing a better approach.

Anand

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