Rise warning/error about a author id being merged from scopus to sosia

[ste210]

When a author id is merged and does not exist anymore, sosia provides an error, but from scopus one can see the warning. Maybe this can be adjusted...

[57201609495, 7004299063]
E:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\scopus\author_retrieval.py:215: UserWarning: Author profile with ID 57201609495 has been merged and the main profile is now one of 7004299063, 57205593771.  Please update your records manually.  Functionality of this object is reduced.
  warn(text, UserWarning)
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<ipython-input-1-1f5517ca9f0e>", line 47, in <module>
    pub_margin=0.2)

  File "E:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\sosia\sosia.py", line 162, in __init__
    Scientist.__init__(self, self.identifier, year, refresh)

  File "E:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\sosia\classes\scientist.py", line 210, in __init__
    self._name = ", ".join([au.surname, au.given_name])

TypeError: sequence item 0: expected str instance, NoneType found

[Michael-E-Rose]

But is this not what we want? Have an error, such that the user provides the correct ID? Or what kind if error-handling would you suggest?

[ste210]

I thought, this should appear as a warning directly in sosia. But maybe is also more correct like this? ..in any case it is a minor issue

[Michael-E-Rose]

pybliometrics raises a warning in two cases:

• The author ID gets forwarded to the new profile, so that the old ID is identical to the new ID
• The author ID is old but does not forward because multiple new profiles are the possible new profile

Does that solve this issue?