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TASK DESCRIPTION
The item merge mechanism at Wikidata fails to work properly in many cases. It looks as if the item to be merged is not properly cleared, and thus no redirect is created thereafter, leaving an almost empty item behind. Can this be fixed in a way that the merge mechanism is more robust? The observed behavior appears to happen regardless of the tools used (i.e. with the Merge gadget as well as with QuickStatements, and probably with other tools as well).
Examples:
- Merge gadget: Q32650964, Q32653805, Q32641999, (and many more)
- QuickStatements: Q32163668, Q32163680, Q32163692, (and many more)
- Affected items also appear on my “empty item” worklist at User:MisterSynergy/sysop/empty items (among non-affected items)
Onwiki discussions:
- Wikidata:Project chat#Merge with quickstatements don't work? (started on August 6, 2017)
- Wikidata:Project chat/Archive/2017/07#Redirect creation failures… (started July 11, 2017; already archived)
I have seen this problem for a while now by a lot of different users, but it has become much more frequent since roughly a week or so. I have no idea whether the merge activity has change recently.
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To: MisterSynergy
Cc: Aklapper, PokestarFan, MisterSynergy, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, dachary, Izno, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Ricordisamoa, Sjoerddebruin, Mbch331
Cc: Aklapper, PokestarFan, MisterSynergy, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, dachary, Izno, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Ricordisamoa, Sjoerddebruin, Mbch331
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