At this time the rules for record deletion are as follows:
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:
It would also require the creation of three cleanup reports for authors, publishers and publication series.
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