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Questions (not edit requests) > Deleting editions which are unshelved

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message 1: by Cait (last edited Mar 23, 2009 12:32PM) (new)

Cait (tigercait) | 4988 comments Normally, when I delete an edition, the page which opens is the book page for the most popular edition with which the deleted edition had been combined and there's a message at the top telling me how many reviews had been merged. Right? And I've seen that message telling me that 0 reviews were merged.

Today either I just happened to notice for the first time what happens when an unshelved (not merely shelved-but-unrated) edition is deleted or there's new behavior: the page which opens is my homepage with a message saying "That book has been deleted." It's only happening with unshelved books -- I tested this with a fake book record -- and unshelved books with no ISBN numbers really are the records which can be completely deleted in safety, but it still freaked me out. Is it new? Am I the only one? :)


message 2: by rivka, Former Moderator (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
That's always what happens when an uncombined edition is deleted.


message 3: by Cait (last edited Mar 23, 2009 12:33PM) (new)

Cait (tigercait) | 4988 comments But these are combined books! Er, which I didn't explicitly mention, did I?


message 4: by rivka, Former Moderator (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
Then it shouldn't do that. ;)

I wonder if this is because of the fix to the deletion error we were getting?


message 5: by Cait (new)

Cait (tigercait) | 4988 comments rivka wrote: "Then it shouldn't do that. ;)

I didn't think so!

I wonder if this is because of the fix to the deletion error we were getting?"

I'm still getting the deletion error, though....


message 6: by rivka, Former Moderator (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
. . .

I got nothing. ;)


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