Comment 9 for bug 551306
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| Edward Betts (edwardbetts) wrote Re: Merge Authors (spec) | #9 |
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(Get the code!)
The author fields are: name, bio, birth date, death date, other names, links.
When we merge authors we copy the names of all the non-master records into the other names field of the master. We should also copy the other names field. We can concatenate all any descriptions in the bio field for each author and store it in the master bio field. We can do the same for links, copy all the links to the master author. We can refuse to merge if birth and death dates don't match, if somebody wants to merge authors with non-matching dates they can delete the bad dates before the merge.
Then we don't need a UI for merging data.