Merge works with same title and spelling differences in author name #1928
Labels
Affects: Data
Issues that affect book/author metadata or user/account data. [managed]
Module: Merging
Record merging
Needs: Triage
This issue needs triage. The team needs to decide who should own it, what to do, by when. [managed]
Priority: 3
Issues that we can consider at our leisure. [managed]
Type: Bug
Something isn't working. [managed]
Projects
Description
Some editions are not merged to the work they belong to (and new unnecessary work pages are created) due to minor differences in the author name spelling.
Evidence
Lacapra vs. LaCapra kept these two separate:
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8382164W
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2731955W
Expectation
I think an automatic merge is in order for such minor mistakes/differences in spelling of either title or author name.
Proposal & Constraints
A case insensitive comparison would fix the specific case, I believe; computing a Levenshtein distance may be trickier, or should be very restrictive (max 1 character difference?) given middle names, cf. #77 (comment)
Doing merges manually is very tedious, if at all feasible; cf. #684 #805
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