Thanks, Tom. I think one of the things we need to get from Anand is an 
idea of what maintenance functions are active on OL, and if there is a 
way that we can monitor them. I have no idea if merges between editions 
or from editions into works are taking place, and here is another 
function (merging/unmerging authors) that is mysterious. I would assume 
that updates would trigger certain actions... but do not know if that is 
the case.

kc

On 9/11/13 7:43 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Karen Coyle <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Yes, something is broken. Actually, it may be more than one thing. I
>     went to the author search and saw two authors:
>     http://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=barbara+delinsky
>
>     When I click on the top one, it takes me to the Clive Cussler page. So
>     this author is re-directing to Clive Cussler for some reason.
>
>
> It looks like there was a bad merge back in July.
>
>     I do not know how to fix this. Anyone?
>
>
> I reverted to the previous version of the two author records (Barbara
> Delinsky & Clive Cussler) which fixed the author records, but all of
> here books are still linked to him (e.g.
> http://openlibrary.org/works/OL166398W/Lake_News).  According to the
> (stale) search index, there are 212 of them, so I think it's time to get
> Anand involved to reverse the merge unless someone has a lot of energy.
>
> We should probably add some type of "Undo merge" tool to the ToDo list.
>   The id of the merge is 47605678
> from 2013-07-12 by /people/bboretsky.  The other author merge is the
> same merge has a completely different name
> http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL581593A?v=1 and the merge was the first
> and only action by this account, so seems like malicious behavior to me.
>
> Tom
>
>
>     kc
>
>     On 9/11/13 2:26 AM, Andy Carter wrote:
>      > I am trying to add a new edition. It seems to have appeared as
>     OL25430731M
>      > however the author is Barbara Delinsky not Clive Cussler. I am
>     unable to edit
>      > anything more on that page.
>      >
>      > I see
>      > expected /type/author, found /type/redirect
>      > at the head of the save response page.
>      >
>      > All other edits today have been successful.
>      >
>      > Is something broken?
>      >
>      > Andy
>
>

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