[Developers] Write grammar questions: question 3 -- process for unlinking on the production site

[Brian Karlak]

Hi Will --

You've caught us just as we're preparing to flush these bad "List of"  
topics from the system -- they shouldn't be topics at all, and they  
are scheduled for delete.  They are leftover cruft from an old run.

In general, if you come across a handful of topics that should be  
reviewed, please use the "flag item" action available from the flag  
pulldown next to the article title.  This will place the topic on the  
queue for review and deletion.

If you come across a whole class of items that should be deleted /  
detyped / reviewed / modified, please just give us a shout-out on this  
list (as you've just done) and we'll do quick review and cleanup over  
here. In general, we definitely appreciate a heads-up for any "data  
cleanliness" issues you (or anyone in the community!) come across.

Thanks for the notification -- we'll post again when the delete is  
completed.

Brian

On Jun 3, 2008, at 3:26 AM, Will Fitzgerald wrote:

> Working at Powerset, I noticed that there are about 350 objects (iirc)
> that are connected to type '/people/person'. These all have names that
> start as 'List of', for example,
>
> {
>  "id" : "/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000005505a3c",
>  "name" : [
>    "List of Byzantine Emperors"
>  ],
>  "type" : [
>    "/people/person"
>  ]
> }
>
> What is the best process for me to get these unlinked? There are a
> couple of aspects of this:
>
> (3a) I can just unlink the id from the type '/people/person'. But will
> this be permitted -- i.e., can I just go ahead and do the unlinking,
> or should I coordinate this with Metaweb?
>
> (3b) In addition to the single type '/people/person', there are also
> names in English, Bulgarian, etc. I don't think there are any other
> connections of interest. This question is very specific to these
> objects -- Freebase does not have a 'list of X' type, so does it make
> sense just to unlink everything, or would it make more sense to let
> the names alone?
>
> -- 
> Will Fitzgerald
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