internetarchive
Renaming Subject
Problem
Many subject have multiple different duplicate, e.g. Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), Rutherford, ernest, 1871-1937
Subject page has an edit button that could be facilitated to rename that subject in any edition
Example:
Go to subject page Rutherford, ernest, 1871-1937, Edit-Button, change title from Rutherford, ernest, 1871-1937 to person:Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), save button.
After saving, the subject should be changed in all edition with the former subject.
Proposal & Constraints
What is the proposed solution / implementation?
see above.
Is there a precedent of this approach succeeding elsewhere?
not to my knowledge.
Which suggestions or requirements should be considered for how feature needs to appear or be implemented?
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@bitnapper Can you assign this issue to me?
@AbhinavKRN I'm sorry, I don't have any special permissions to do that. I guess @mekarpeles can do that?
@mekarpeles @gojomo can you assign this issue to me? I can easily solve this issue and raise the PR soon !!
I would recommend waiting until the issue is triaged to see what they'd like the solution to be. Personally, I think the right solution is to make subjects into 1st class objects instead of mere strings, as I suggested in #2819. Then all the different name variants (and different language labels) can get stored as aliases.
Just chiming in to add that because #9520 / #9643 uses subjects, improvements in subjects (e.g. such as outlined in #2819 and #7904) would probably make the Best Book feature more useful to patrons.
