LeadSongDog

@tfmorris I get that it’s faster, but it’s wrong. Patrons should not have to guess at author name spellings, and there are many variations in the data. That is why...

@hornc Mind stating where the blocker is, please?

@hornc So then the blockers include #3317?

> Testing whether this is still an issue: > > correct cased the author name of https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL12521441A/Charles_O._Hardy > > immediately after making the change:  > > and it hasn't...

Of course there is still the problem that there is no UI available to correct authors shown redundantly and sometimes incorrectly in edition records. #3413 and #2625 refer. There might...

I was referring not to the updater per se, but the existence of uncorrectable broken linkages from edition records to author records. Either the edition records should lose the author...

> > @LeadSongDog edition authors don't have anything to do with this. They are certainly a problem when attempting to merge author records. When work records show one author link...

The contact form (https://openlibrary.org/contact?path=/) already asks for the submitter to provide an email address. Why not just autoreply at that address to verify it is a valid one? That would...

Equally, title search on a work ID hits "No results found": https://openlibrary.org/search?q=title%3A+%22OL9170454W%22

Excellent! Hidden problems don't get fixed.