[Developers] Errors with new import system.

[Daniel E. Renfer]

I think I'll have to take this as a lesson.

Always test new things out on the sandbox first!

Thankfully I have a pretty good idea where those duplicates occurred, so 
it shouldn't be too hard to mind the merge candidates.

Aseem Mohanty wrote:
> Hi Daniel.
> 
> Sorry to hear that you ran into the 'transient error' problem. It is a 
> known bug that usually occurs on data refreshes and we are working on 
> fixing that.
> 
> If you did the import on sandbox, you don't need to worry about merging 
> things as sandbox is reset every week with data from freebase.com and 
> mistakes are not only tolerated but encouraged.
> 
> However if you did the import on freebase.com, I think you may have to 
> mark them for merges.
> 
> HTH
> AM
> 
> Daniel E. Renfer wrote:
>> 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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