On 17/10/10 08:12, Tom Morris wrote: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Alan Millar<[email protected]> wrote: > >> But the old work entry is still there with no editions: >> >> http://openlibrary.org/works/OL15406148W/Waverley_o_sessant%27anni_sono >> >> and it seems like it should have been deleted when the edition was moved. > > I think it would be a lot better to merge the two works rather than > deleting one. That way if someone has the old identifier/URL stored > somewhere and uses it, they'll still get useful results. That's what > Freebase does when it merges Open Library works/editions/authors.
I wrote WorkBot not to delete anything. It should replace works with a redirect when it merges them. -- Edward. _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
