Issue 1489: Entry should be deleted. Eric Disagrees, delete the newer one instead
- Object
- Until We Meet Again (Dance)
- Submitter
- Murrough Landon (murrough)
- Assigned to
- Anselm Lingnau
- Priority
- Normal
- Disposition
- Being handled
- Description
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Iain Boyd requested by email that I delete this dance entry as it is a misnamed duplicate of his dance Until We Meet Again (https://my.strathspey.org/dd/dance/18201/).
However when I tried to delete it I found that it is linked from some Collections so I believe this needs Anselm’s intervention.
Previous Actions
- Date Aug. 18, 2018, 12:59 p.m.
- User Murrough Landon (murrough)
New issue submitted
- Date Aug. 18, 2018, 10:39 p.m.
- User Eric Ferguson (EricFerguson)
Subject changed to »Entry should be deleted. Eric Disagrees, delete the newer one instead« (previously »Entry should be deleted«)
Assigned changed to »murrough« (previously »None«)
Disposition changed to »Needs help« (previously »New«)
NO. When we find duplicates, it is best, in my opinion, to keep the original entry (updated and improved), and delete the later one. In this case the name was misspelled in the original version, so that should be corrected. It is likely that the newer version will not yet have any “collection” links, so Anselm’s help won’t be needed… My reasons are:
- The Dance Number gives an idea of the time the dance entered SCDDB.
- It feels better to correct the error (someone made a duplicate by mistake) than to stert anew.
Eric
- Date Aug. 18, 2018, 10:55 p.m.
- User Heiko Schmidt (castle_ghost)
I support Eric’s point of view!
Cheers, Heiko
- Date Aug. 19, 2018, 11:17 p.m.
- User Murrough Landon (murrough)
Disposition changed to »Being handled« (previously »Needs help«)
Yes I take the point. I was being a bit lazy as the newer entry had more information associated it with it and the earlier one almost nothing.
- Date Aug. 19, 2018, 11:57 p.m.
- User Murrough Landon (murrough)
I have now transferred the information from https://my.strathspey.org/dd/dance/18201/ to this dance, including updating the publication May I Have the Pleasure (https://my.strathspey.org/dd/publication/1406/) to point to this older entry.
Unfortunately the newer entry also has links to collections…
- Date Aug. 20, 2018, 12:21 a.m.
- User Eric Ferguson (EricFerguson)
Assigned changed to »anselm« (previously »murrough«)
Reassigned to Anselm, to transfer the collection links and delete the entry. Eric