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the API should support redirection from one ID to another #132

Open mhl opened 9 years ago

mhl commented 9 years ago

This came up because of:

Any of the currently supported ways of merging people (either through the PopIt API's merge endpoint, or by using the PopIt API to update one person and delete the other) just delete one of the two people. This creates a problem from API consumers who don't have any way of telling whether a person who's suddenly 404ing has either just been deleted, or has been merged into someone else.

It would be great if:

akuckartz commented 9 years ago

Linked data makes this easy using owl:sameAs.