Ahasuerus - 2016-09-11
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 6. Publication series are deleted automatically when the last publication associated with the publication series has been deleted.
 7. Awards, award categories and award types can only be deleted manually. Empty award types and award categories are flagged by cleanup reports.

-It would be desirable to standardize the rules for automatic record deletion. The following record types would be affected: authors, series, publishers, publication series. The updated algorithm would check if the about-to-be-deleted record has additional information associated with it: notes, Web pages, biographical data (for authors.) If it does, then the record would not be deleted. Instead it would appear on a record type-specific cleanup report. The new cleanup reports would be periodically reviewed and any relevant data would be migrated to existing records prior to manual deletion.
+It would be desirable to standardize the rules for automatic record deletion. The following record types would be affected: authors, series, publishers, publication series. The updated algorithm would check if the about-to-be-deleted record has additional information associated with it: notes, Web pages, biographical data (for authors.) If it does not, then the record would be deleted. If it does, then the record would not be deleted; instead it would appear on a record type-specific cleanup report. The new cleanup reports would be periodically reviewed and any relevant data would be migrated to existing records prior to manual deletion.

 The proposed algorithm would require three new options: