On 8/29/13 5:42 AM, Tom Morris wrote:

>     2. Why don't all the potential mergees appear in the merge listing,
>     despite the fact that loads of clearly irrelevant entries do appear
>     there?
>
>
> Which dedupe listing?  Are you starting from search?  This search:
> http://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=a.+hamon produces three
> candidates for me and they all show up in the merge dialog.  The merge
> URL (which is the same one you could generate programatically) is
> http://openlibrary.org/authors/merge?key=OL5218117A&key=OL3466239A&key=OL5358432A
> The proposed merge target goes first, followed by all the other candidates.


Is it possible that the dump includes previously de-duped author names 
that now re-direct to a single URL? The dump would then contain name 
variants that do not show in search.

kc


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