Can't delete authors with connected editions

[George]

Just tried to delete this record:

http://upstream.openlibrary.org/authors/OL6774485A/NOOB_KING_D

Instead of deleting it, it appeared to SAVE it instead.

http://upstream.openlibrary.org/authors/OL6774485A/NOOB_KING_D?m=history

[Lance Arthur (lance-arthur)]

My bad.

This is due to the dialog that pops-up after hitting delete. The script calls an action document.forms[0].submit if you click yes, but that simply submits the form. The "Delete" action is linked to a button with a type="submit" but it's not a submit, so I'm not sure what to tell the script to execute when you verify you want to delete something. Anand, how does the delete button tell the form/site to delete the record, and how do I communicate that to the button on the pop-up?

[Lance Arthur (lance-arthur)]

On second thought, I guess it's only sort of "my bad" since I have removed the pop-up but I still couldn't delete the above author record. So... not sure about this one.

[George (george-archive)]

Admins should be able to delete author records. Particularly junk entries with no books attached.

Like this one:

http://upstream.openlibrary.org/authors/OL6781721A/POOPER

[Winnie (winnie-archive)]

Not being able to delete author page is holding me back on completing fixing the list of author names from george/edward. Need this bug fixed in order to finish project.

[George (george-archive)]

So, to be clear:

 * Admins should be able to delete authors with 0 Works associated with them
 * Not Admins should not see the delete button (although we may expand this permission later)
 * Deletions should be noted in the record history

 * We should consider displaying the Page Type dropdown for Admins only on the Author page so we can manage redirects if we need to

[George (george-archive)]

Anand - I'm increasing this priority - it's important for us to be able to clean up bad author records as soon as we find them. Can you take a look at this next? (After you've completed your work on the Subject page?)

[George (george-archive)]

http://upstream.openlibrary.org/authors/OL6784049A/Butt_Man/

[Anand Chitipothu (anandology)]

Fixed and deleted the above mentioned author records.

[George (george-archive)]

Hi Anand,

Delete doesn't seem to work. A message pops up when I press the delete button here:

http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL6736216A/lenny_lauster/

It says "Deleting author pages not allowed."

(We need to be able to delete authors. What am I missing?)

[Edward Betts (edwardbetts)]

Deleting authors checks if there are any existing editions or works, if so it gives this error: "Deleting author pages is not allowed."

It could be clearer that you need to delete all editions and works first.

The is no obvious way to get a list of editions that link to an author.