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Python Client Library for the Archive.org OpenLibrary API
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Failed Author Merges to Fix #72

Closed mekarpeles closed 6 years ago

mekarpeles commented 6 years ago

The merges from 2013 need to be undone. They've conflated a novelist with a statistician and affected thousands of works.

https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL24370A/Kathleen_Morgan

@leadsongdog writes: The statistician is https://viaf.org/viaf/73431623 The pulp romance author is https://viaf.org/viaf/9176228

This issue originally opened here by @tfmorris: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/712

hornc commented 6 years ago

This looks to be the merge details: https://openlibrary.org/recentchanges/2013/07/09/merge-authors/47603340

I am adding VIAF and ISNI to the authors and will attempt the revert...

hornc commented 6 years ago

I think I have reverted correctly, and corrected the authors' details: https://openlibrary.org/recentchanges/2018/04/09/undo/53724316

Solr may need some help getting updated, but I'll wait a while and give it a chance to update itself.

hornc commented 6 years ago

looks like solr updated and the works are showing correctly under the two authors:

https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2812675A/Kathleen_O'Leary_Morgan and https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL24370A/Kathleen_Morgan

There are some exceptions, but those are orphaned editions, which solr has trouble removing. Separate issue though: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/893