Duplicate uneditable collections
Saturday, July 26, 2014 - 23:26
I somehow created duplicate collections (probably me hiting save, then remembering to check "List this collection in the archive" and hitting save again):
http://opengameart.org/content/sms-like
http://opengameart.org/content/sms-like-0
When I try saving an edit I get the message "The alias is already in use." and the save doesn't take.
Is there any mechanism for a nerf user to delete a collection?
Ah, that happens sometimes and I'm not sure what to do about it. The short answer is no, but I can get rid of it for you. Which one do you want to keep?
I'd prefer to keep the one without the appended zero.
Cheers.
Red warrior needs caffeine badly.
Done. :)
The short answer about why this happened is that there's a weird bug somewhere in the system (my guess is it's probably is a double form submit issue combined with a race condition) that causes duplicate items to be created that for some reason believe that they share the same URL alias (even though they don't). It's fairly rare and it would probably be difficult to hunt down and fix, so it's a fairly low priority at the moment. I can't even delete them unless I manually change the URL alias first, which is something that would be insecure to give everyone access to.
Anyway, sorry for the inconvenience. Let me know if it happens again.