[wow, 12 day moderation delay!]
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Richard Light <[email protected]>wrote: > Tom, > > Thanks for this. > > > 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) > ishttp://openlibrary.org/authors/merge?key=OL5218117A&key=OL3466239A&key=OL5358432A > The proposed merge target goes first, followed by all the other candidates. > > > The listing I meant was just the one you get when you click on the "merge > duplicates" link and > get the Merge Authors listing. > That's an artifact of the stale search index. Although those author records are still in the search index, in the main database they've already been merged away, so they don't show up as merge candidates. Tom
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