author identification should be conservative

Bug #379126 reported by Aaron Swartz
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Open Library
Confirmed
Medium
Edward Betts

Bug Description

Right now if two books list the same name as the author, they're listed as written by the same author ID unless manually split. The default should be the opposite: they should each get their own author ID, which can then be manually merged.

Why? Because the current interface shows wrong data, while the alternative never would. If an author is later split, links to the old author could break, whereas if authors are merged, links will redirect.

Aaron Swartz (aaronsw)
Changed in openlibrary:
assignee: nobody → Edward Betts (edward-debian)
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in openlibrary:
importance: High → Medium
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