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> Per a discussion with @hornc and @judec, we will want to keep statistics about when BWB has incomplete data, and when AMZ has incomplete data. At this moment it's...

Title conjoined with author and or date is a common case. Conjoined multiple authors is another (often with only surnames). I would be reluctant to see any author record created...

Additional considerations: In cases where name-only authors (sans disambiguation) are attributed in the source record it would be helpful to check for title, subject, or publisher matches among books by...

Further, the edition edit-->add cover-->manage leads to a 500: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL17631357M/Living_with_Leviathan/edit#imagesManage

Still there:  The old author, OL592017A, also shows in the edition's json display: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL17631357M.json still includes "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL592017A"}] though it should have changed to "/authors/OL1862019A" with that edit...

@mekarpeles @hornc At: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL9340281W/Advanced_Organic_Chemistry?b=2&a=1&_compare=Compare&m=diff I changed the Work record to link to the correct Author record. This should have fixed all the Edition records and Covers under that Work, but...

Just trying to give an example that is clear enough to get some attention. After almost a year, I don't Think that this has even been diagnosed yet, so I...

@jdlrobson, that's because @cdrini fixed that specific edition last month, but my example of OL10328206M still has the same problem. {"publishers": ["John Wiley & Sons Inc"], "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "classifications":...

@jdlrobson It seems there are multiple places where get_authors is defined, perhaps that is a problem in itself?: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/blob/0aadc9d596671e48248cc6bcc2ba82020c0f0f4a/openlibrary/core/lists/engine.py#L38 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/blob/19f2062f519ff3189d36ce23d252f1f5a2d36c92/openlibrary/plugins/books/dynlinks.py#L164 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/blob/19f2062f519ff3189d36ce23d252f1f5a2d36c92/openlibrary/plugins/books/dynlinks.py#L337 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/blob/51d7b5bf04959d23c4c216519fa9a13b34285866/openlibrary/plugins/upstream/models.py#L59 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/blob/51d7b5bf04959d23c4c216519fa9a13b34285866/openlibrary/plugins/upstream/models.py#L596 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/blob/c05b856c688658fd4ffa50e3aa1040936c51c2c0/openlibrary/plugins/openlibrary/home.py#L235

> And here's a modern record that exhibits the issue ; you can see the incorrect and duplicate authors on the left https://openlibrary.org/books/OL4968844M/La_science_des_re%CC%82ves . > > Thanks @cdrini, that is...