[FR] Option to transfer existing relationships to a sibling when deleting an element (Entry/Category/Tag…)

[rungta]

Craft provides a very useful option to retain author relationships when deleting a User by transferring it another User. The same option, if extended to Entries and Categories would allow easy resolution of use cases such as:

• Merging exact duplicate taxonomies (eg: two “Hiking” entries)
• Resolving duplication as a result of typos (eg: “Hiking” and “Hikking”)
• Merging similar categories (eg: “Hiking” and “Trekking”)
• etc.

[rishifter]

Hi Craft team! We've a client with a fairly large content set (around 70-80k entries at the start, and expected to grow even more over time) + a few thousand taxonomies. As a large team of authors are working on uploading the content to the site, they have quite a few duplicates starting to show up. The ability for editors/reviewers to go in and merge taxonomies while keeping the existing association with entries would be immensely beneficial for such a large content set.

We hope this is being considered/discussed as a feature. Just dropping a message to add a bit more weight to this existing request.

[thupsi]

This could also come in handy when using the new copy functionality, since there's no cut. At least then one could copy the original entry, paste it to its new location, then delete the original and transfer the relationships to the copy.