Great question, Jon. I assume it was for the reason of misuse, or mistakes. I made a mistake once or twice and it may be harder to undo than to do the merge, I guess even more if the merged author is edited.
Not sure if I ever said it out loud, but perhaps suggesting merges to experienced editors who can accept or reject the merge suggestion with the click of a button could be a useful feature. For many types of edits in MusicBrainz, suggesting the change is the default and other users can then vote for or against the change. Such a system has a higher entry barrier, but shouldn't put a lot of extra stress on IA's one(?) editor as any user could vote. Then the next question is: can we have Work and Edition merge too? Some people also used algorithms to find possible duplicates in the past. If the manual votes for suggested changes are fed into a machine learning algorithm, I envision machines can support editors suggesting or voting on changes. I wish I had the time to try work this out :) Groeten van Ben On 25 February 2015 at 11:16, Jon Leech <oddh...@sonic.net> wrote: > AIUI, author merges using the "Magic Merge Wand" were supported > sometime in the past, but now are restricted to OL staff. I came up with > a few dozen of these while processing my library, a fair number of which > I reported and are getting processed, but it got tiresome after a while > and seemed like a poor use of my/Jessamyn's time with all the extra > steps involved. Was the author merge tool restricted due to misuse? > Might it be restored at some point? > Jon > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
