[Developers] Errors with new import system.

[Daniel E. Renfer]

Daniel E. Renfer wrote:
> I was testing out the new import system by trying to import a list of 
> cards and their artists for my Magic The Gathering domain.
> 
> I had already loaded the list of these cards under the old system, so 
> they were all auto-merged. The problem came when I tried to do the artists.
> 
> Some of these artists are already in the system, so there were no 
> problems there. It came down to the new artists. It was forcing me to 
> "add new" for each and every one of them. When I finished it wanted to 
> create an instance for each card-artist relation.
> 
> It would be better if it could identify that an artist with that same 
> name is pending to be created, and auto-merge with that new topic.
> 
> On top of that, when I tried to finalize the import, the site threw a 
> "transient error" I'm actually glad that it did, I'm going to re-do my 
> list to fix this problem unless you fix things on your end before I get 
> back to it tomorrow.
> 

On second look, it appears that it did indeed create copies of each of 
them. So I'm really sorry about that. If you have a tool to easily merge 
them, it would be appreciated, if not I'll go through them and flag them 
all for merge.

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