tfmorris
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1 year ago A good way to make things like this easily actionable by the librarians is to cast them in the form of search URLs. Unless the name is incredibly common, it's then just a couple of clicks to a merge screen where they can review potential merge candidates. It also gives them a starting point to tweak the search to be more or less general.
I did a pass a few months ago cleaning up things which had multiple OL IDs in Wikidata, so I suspect many of this have been cleaned up already, but the import pipeline is tuned for quantity, not quality, so it's a never ending problem. For example, I merged 48 (!) duplicates of St. Jerome on Sept. 7, but therewere already another half dozen today.
~~https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Jerome+Saint https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Ambrose+Saint%2C+Bishop+of+Milan https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Jacob+ben+Jacob+Moses+of+Lissa https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Isidore+of+Seville%2C+Saint https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Leo+I+Pope https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=No%C3%A9mio+Ramos https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Eckhart+Meister https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=John+Chrysostom+Saint https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Blackmore%2C+Richard+Sir https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Shultz%2C+George+Pratt%2C+d https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Martinus+Polonus https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Arnaldus+de+Villanova https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Dionis+Mr https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Eghish%C4%93+Saint%2C+Vardapet https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Claude+d%27Abbeville%2C+p%C3%A8re https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Gato%2C+Bentsiyon+ha-Kohen https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Josquin+des+Prez https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Alessandro+De+Bono https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Mosheh+ben+%E1%B8%A4ayim+%E1%B8%B2oznitser https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Eliezer+ben+Jacob+ha-Levi%2C+of+Tarnogrod https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Taverner+Mr https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Peter+of+Limoges https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Alessandro+De+Bono https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Richard+of+St.+Victor https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Dov+Baer+of+Mezhirech https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Brooke%2C+Robert+Sir https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=%E1%B8%B2amil%2C+%E1%B8%A4ayim+ha-Kohen https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Fictuld%2C+Hermann+pseud https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Hilary+Saint%2C+Bishop+of+Poitiers https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=John+of+Salisbury%2C+Bishop+of+Chartres https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Nicetas+of+Remesiana%2C+Saint https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Jaakov+Joseph+of+Polonoye https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Timothy+Aelurus+Patriarch+of+Alexandria https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Dionysius+bar+%E1%B9%A2al%C4%ABb%C4%AB+Bishop+of+Amida https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Mu%E1%B8%A5ammad+%E1%B8%A4asan+Kh%C4%81n+I%CA%BBtim%C4%81d+al-Sal%E1%B9%ADanah https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Leo+Brother https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=James+R.+White https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Charles+den+Tex https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Yanben+Shi https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=John+XXI+Pope https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=George+Saint https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=%C5%9Aim%E1%B8%A5ah+mi-%E1%B9%BEi%E1%B9%ADri https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Jordan+of+Saxony https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Gilliers+Sieur https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Gelasius+I+Pope https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Hugo+de+Prato+Florido https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Commerell+abb%C3%A9+de https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Marsilius+of+Inghen https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Adrianus+Cartusiensis https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Zeno+Saint%2C+Bishop+of+Verona https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=William+Perry https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Anirban+Sengupta https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Aldobrandino+da+Siena https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Methodius+of+Olympus%2C+Saint https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Erskine%2C+Steuart+Mrs https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Littleton%2C+Thomas+Sir https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Mordekhai+mi-Nadvorna-Bosh%E1%B9%ADina https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=%E1%B8%A4anokh+Henikh+a.b.d.+%E1%B8%B3.+Ales%E1%B8%B3 https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Menahem+ben+Moses+ha-Bavli https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Yits%E1%B8%A5a%E1%B8%B3i%2C+Avraham+ha-Kohen https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Shelomoh+ben+Yehudah+ha-Kohen https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Alcaraz%2C+Emilio+de+vizconde+de+Sol%C3%ADs https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Alexander+Suslin+ha-Kohen%2C+of+Frankfurt https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Macintosh%2C+Robert+Reynolds+Sir https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=%CA%BBAbd+al-Ra%E1%B8%A5m%C4%81n+Kh%C4%81n+Amir+of+Afghanistan https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Macintosh%2C+Robert+Reynolds+%28Sir%29 https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Aharon+Mena%E1%B8%A5em+Mendil+a.b.d.+%E1%B8%B3.+Nashels%E1%B8%B3 https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Mordekhai+ben+Gedaly.+Mosheh+mi-Z%E1%B9%BFehil https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=%E1%B8%A4azan%2C+Eliyahu+%C5%9Aim%E1%B8%A5ah+ben+%E1%B8%A4ayim+ha-Le%E1%B9%BFi https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Garrault%2C+Franc+%CA%B9ois+sieur+Des+Gorges https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Figueroa+y+Torres%2C+Alvaro+de+conde+de+Romanones https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Horowitz%2C+%E1%BA%92evi+Hirsch+ben+Phinehas+ha-Levi~~
The attached authors have identical entries for "name", "personal_name", "birth_date", "death_date".
There's probably more like this, e.g. Alessandro De Bono shows up here 5 times with a birth date of '24-12-1946' and a further four times as '24/02/1946' so presumably there's more doubles that could be found with some mild normalisation, but exact matches are probably the least likely to have false positives.
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