[Treebase-devel] Deleting junk

[William P. <wil...@ya...>]

We had our first attempt to submit data. A Dutchman, Ben Wielstra, has been uploading NEXUS files -- some a bit malformed (as is common).  However, because issue 2960886 has not been fixed, we can't get rid of the junk data. Plus, even if we could delete a matrix (or tree), taxon labels that are exclusively linked to that matrix will not be deleted with them. 

So, as we resolve 2960886 I think it's important to also simultaneously delete any taxon labels linked to the deleted object but not found in any other tree or matrix. As bad data gets in, the taxon label table gets crowded with a lot of garbage.  

Attached, you can see that his "Taxon Labels Information" page is loaded with weird things like numbers and semi-colons -- things that crept in via poorly NEXUS in which Mesquite did a botched job of parsing.  (also it's got the repeated names, per issue 2973661). 

bp

ps - Frankly, I was hoping that the whole idea of using Mesquite was that it would be a gatekeeper for preventing trash from getting in -- apparently not.